You're Cheating!

"Ding! Does the host wish to confirm the recycling of the Grade 2 medicinal ingredient, Fire Dragon Fruit?"

"Recycle!"

"Ding! Grade 2 medicinal ingredient Fire Dragon Fruit recycled. Host has received 200 Points!"

Phew, he finally had some Points.

Nalan Chaoge immediately opened the system panel and placed one hundred Grade 1 medicinal ingredients inside. Based on the ingredients' properties, the system listed the names of pills that could be refined, along with descriptions of their effects.

Power-Accumulating Pill: Increased one's strength by a certain degree.

Qi-Increasing Powder: Those below the Dou Zhe level could use it to temporarily attain the strength of a Dou Zhe.

Spring Return Powder: Rapidly restored stamina.

Healing Pill: Stopped bleeding and refreshed the mind.

Fire Condensing Pill: Improved the absorption efficiency of fire-element energy.

No matter the plane or continent, healing-type roles and pills were always scarce.

Without hesitation, Nalan Chaoge chose the Healing Pill.

"Ding! Does the host wish to confirm spending 200 Points to refine a Healing Pill?"

"Yes!"

With a shift of his divine sense, an still-warm pill appeared in Nalan Chaoge's hand.

A faint medicinal fragrance wafted out, carrying an enticing allure.

He raised it to his nose and took a light sniff. So this was what a pill smelled like?

At least the 200 Points he had painstakingly spent had not gone to waste.

Nalan Chaoge did not take the Grade 1 pill.

He intended to use it to make his fortune.

Without alerting anyone, Nalan Chaoge quietly left the Marshal's Mansion. In a corner, he took out a large cloak and draped it over himself, concealing his face.

Following a familiar route, he flashed into one of Mittel's auction houses.

In truth, Grade 1 pills did not need to be auctioned in a place like Jiamar Holy City. However, Nalan Chaoge had plans of his own.

Upon arriving at the Auction House, Nalan Chaoge headed straight for the appraisal room.

He pushed open the door and entered. The room was somewhat spacious. The so-called appraisal room was not a treasure vault; only a few people sat behind a large table.

Seeing Nalan Chaoge completely wrapped in a cloak, a female attendant by the door stepped forward to greet him.

"May I ask whether you require an appraisal, sir?"

"Mhm." Nalan Chaoge gave a low grunt.

"May I ask whether you wish to appraise pills, cultivation techniques and Battle Skills, or Heavenly Treasures?"

"Pills," Nalan Chaoge replied.

"Very well, sir. Pill appraisals are this way." The Young Lady led Nalan Chaoge to a table. After a brief introduction, she handed him over to an elderly man seated behind it.

The old man had a ruddy complexion, white hair and beard, and an unfathomable air about him.

Nalan Chaoge did not waste words. He directly took the pill from his robes.

There was no decoration, no jade bottle, and no wooden box. He simply held the pill in his hand and took it out.

Seeing Nalan Chaoge's actions, the old man frowned slightly.

He had never seen anyone treat a pill with such disrespect.

"This is?" The old man gave Nalan Chaoge a puzzled glance.

"Appraise it," Nalan Chaoge said flatly in a deliberately altered voice.

"A Grade 1 Healing Pill. It stops bleeding and heals injuries." Having seen plenty of such things, the old man was not particularly surprised by a Grade 1 pill. With only one look at the pill in Nalan Chaoge's hand, without even touching it, he identified its effects.

"How much can this pill sell for?"

"The pill purchase prices are over there. You may take a look yourself." It was only a Grade 1 pill, so the old man had no interest in it.

Nalan Chaoge was not surprised. He walked over to a chart nearby and compared the prices himself.

Grade 1 pill purchase price: 1,000 gold coins.

Grade 2 pill purchase price: 10,000 gold coins.

Grade 3 pill purchase price: 100,000 gold coins.

These were merely the lowest prices. Naturally, pills of higher quality or greater efficacy would be worth more. However, even the finest Grade 1 pill was only worth 9,000 gold coins and would not exceed the price of a Grade 2 pill.

After checking the prices, Nalan Chaoge returned.

"Sell it."

The old man glanced at Nalan Chaoge and beckoned to an attendant at the entrance.

He instructed the attendant to assess it at the lowest Grade 1 pill quality, transfer 1,000 gold coins on the spot, and take Nalan Chaoge's pill.

Nalan Chaoge did not understand the dealings here, but selling one pill for a thousand gold coins still seemed rather unprofitable to him.

A thousand gold coins bought one Grade 2 medicinal ingredient, which could be recycled for 200 Points. Then he still had to add several Grade 1 medicinal ingredients before the system could refine another pill. Wasn't that a losing business?

But Grade 2 pills were different.

After the transaction was complete, Nalan Chaoge took out his card again. It contained 11,000 gold coins, and he instructed the attendant to exchange all of it for Grade 2 medicinal ingredients.

Only the lowest-grade Grade 2 medicinal ingredients.

The Mittel Family truly deserved its reputation as the largest auction market. In less than half an hour, the medicinal ingredients Nalan Chaoge required had been prepared.

There were eleven of the lowest-grade Grade 2 medicinal ingredients in total.

He recycled six of them and gained 1,200 Points.

Nalan Chaoge was about to carry out his magnificent, shameless system-grinding scheme.

Name: Nalan Chaoge

System Level: [D] Rank

Dou Po Cultivation Level: One-star Dou Zhe

System Refinable Pills: Grade 2

Redeemed Ninjutsu: [Clone Technique] [Transformation Jutsu] [Eight Inner Gates]

Summoned Tailed Beasts: None

Impure World Reincarnation: None

Points Owned: 1,200

A Grade 2 pill was not necessarily refined entirely from Grade 2 medicinal ingredients. Sometimes, a pill requiring only one Grade 2 medicinal ingredient could still be considered a Grade 2 pill.

One Grade 2 pill was worth 10,000 gold coins, which could then be exchanged for ten Grade 2 medicinal ingredients. Hehehe.

No wonder they said Alchemists were the most sought-after and wealthiest profession on this continent.

After receiving the medicinal ingredients, Nalan Chaoge did not leave immediately. Instead, he asked an attendant for a private room.

In the time it took for an incense stick to burn, Nalan Chaoge used the remaining five Grade 2 medicinal ingredients and spent 1,000 Points to refine five Grade 2 pills.

"Appraisal!"

When Nalan Chaoge appeared before the old appraiser again, the latter merely gave the cloaked youth a puzzled glance.

Swish!

In a particularly pretentious display, Nalan Chaoge took out five Grade 2 pills at once.

Likewise, there was no packaging whatsoever. He simply held them in his hand.

This time, the old man's eyes lit up.

Grade 2 pills?

And he had taken out five at once?

That alone was nothing to the old man, but the pills were clearly still warm. In other words, they had just been refined.

In such a short time, he had actually refined five Grade 2 pills. Moreover, his expression was calm and composed, as though nothing had happened.

The old man was finally moved.

"G-Grade 2 pills, five of them. May I ask if you wish to sell them, young sir?"

"Mhm." Nalan Chaoge nodded calmly.

"Ten thousand gold coins each. That comes to fifty thousand gold coins!"

Nalan Chaoge nodded faintly, then turned and handed his gold card to the attendant beside him again.

The usual arrangement: fifty of the lowest-grade Grade 2 medicinal ingredients.

Half an hour later.

Nalan Chaoge appeared before the old appraiser once more.

He still spoke those same calm words.

"Appraisal!"

Twenty-five Grade 2 pills!