Evergreen Liquid

Evergreen Liquid

During the three-day Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, Jiang Ning took some time to visit the Qiaozhou medicinal herb wholesale market.

The Soul Submergence Incense had not arrived yet.

Jiang Ning was somewhat disappointed. Without the aid of Soul Submergence Incense, his divine sense could currently only be slowly honed and strengthened through the Golden Profound Soul Division Art.

For the time being, it could only be used for detection and to cast the simple spell, Soul Shocking Spike.

As for basic applications such as Divine Sense Shock and using divine sense to manipulate objects, his divine sense was still incapable of them.

Under normal circumstances, divine sense progressed alongside one's Spiritual Energy cultivation. As one's realm rose, divine sense would improve accordingly, with one's Spiritual Energy cultivation corresponding to one's divine sense cultivation.

With the aid of heavenly treasures, divine sense could surpass one's Spiritual Energy cultivation and display its powerful uses in advance. Whether in combat, alchemy, artifact forging, or talisman crafting, it brought countless benefits.

Even without the Soul Submergence Incense, Jiang Ning had not made the trip in vain. He bought some other medicinal herbs.

Jiang Ning planned to use these herbs to concoct a spiritual liquid for regenerating hair.

With a single application of the spiritual liquid, one could regrow hair painlessly.

Although hair transplant surgery already existed, the procedure was rather troublesome. It involved transplanting hair follicles from other parts of the body onto bald areas to make the hair grow thick again.

One had to go to a hospital for treatment and receive anesthesia before the procedure. Afterward, the scalp would be covered in countless tiny wounds. Pain was one thing, but when the wounds healed and scabbed over, they became unbearably itchy, making people want to scratch them.

After surgery, one also had to wrap one's head in bandages, change the dressings, and deal with a whole series of tedious aftercare routines.

Any surgery was torturous.

Jiang Ning's spiritual liquid, on the other hand, was as easy to use as hair conditioner. It was foolproof, suitable for both children and adults, and could effortlessly regrow hair.

The spiritual liquid was not difficult to concoct. In the cultivation world Jiang Ning came from, there were also people suffering from hair loss.

For instance, body-tempering cultivators often possessed exceptionally powerful physiques and abundant vital energy, which left many of them with gleaming bald heads. Such cultivators had long been troubled by this.

After all, cultivators cared about their appearance too. Not everyone wanted to rely on cultivation for a living. Many cultivators preferred to have handsome, elegant looks and attract the protection of high-realm female cultivators.

There had once been a Qi Refining Stage male rogue cultivator blessed with great fortune. He was exceptionally handsome, like an immortal banished from the heavens, and thus caught the eye of a female ancestor in the Nascent Soul Realm, who bestowed countless spiritual pills and medicines upon him.

That Qi Refining Stage male cultivator rose all the way to the Golden Core Realm, making countless rogue cultivators green with envy.

Besides, when choosing a dual-cultivation partner, faced with two male cultivators of equal realm, a female cultivator would probably not choose the bald one.

A clever cultivator had seized the opportunity, racked his brains, and developed a hair-regrowth spiritual liquid. He earned a great number of spirit stones and even managed to break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm with those resources, becoming a well-known tale in the cultivation world.

Once the hair-regrowth spiritual liquid spread through the cultivation world, its formula was quickly deciphered, and it became a common commodity.

After Jiang Ning saw it in the Fallen Cloud Sect Treasury, he casually memorized the formula.

This spiritual liquid was called Evergreen Liquid.

Of the seven herbs it required, Jiang Ning had found six. Two were rather common: dried ginger and polygonum multiflorum. Dried ginger nourished the hair follicles, while polygonum multiflorum promoted black hair growth.

The final herb was an auxiliary ingredient, and the Qiaozhou herb merchant said he had never even heard of it.

Jiang Ning temporarily gave up on finding it and used only the six herbs to concoct the liquid.

That missing auxiliary herb was used to improve the duration of the effect. If the herb was of good quality, it could ensure that one would never lose hair again after regrowing it.

Without that auxiliary herb, the concocted Evergreen Liquid could still guarantee no hair loss for half a year after regrowth.

Considering the quality of herbs in the Current Realm, Jiang Ning estimated it would probably last two to three months.

That was enough. As long as users applied Evergreen Liquid diligently, the speed of their hair loss would never catch up to the speed of regrowth, and they would never go bald.

This would also greatly increase the sustainable sales of the spiritual liquid, bringing in a steady stream of profit.

Moreover, a spiritual liquid that only maintained hair growth for a short period would not make its effects seem too miraculous or perfect, lowering the chance of causing an uproar in the medical community.

It was killing several birds with one stone.

Jiang Ning began concocting Evergreen Liquid. The process was not complicated. He sent out a burst of Spirit Fire to boil water, turning it into water infused with Spiritual Energy.

He then extracted the herbs with Spirit Fire, tossed them into the spiritual water one by one, and boiled and steeped them, waiting for a certain transformation to occur. It was far simpler than refining pills.

That was only natural. Alchemy had an extremely high threshold, and ordinary people could not become Alchemists. Otherwise, that cultivator would not have racked his brains over developing a hair-regrowth spiritual liquid just to earn spirit stones. If he had been an Alchemist, he would not have had to worry about spirit stones so easily.

It was precisely because Alchemists, who were more knowledgeable about medicinal principles, did not lack spirit stones and could not be bothered with such things that the hair-regrowth spiritual liquid had been concocted by an obscure minor cultivator.

The spiritual liquid floating in the air gradually turned green, releasing a faint spicy scent.

"It's done."

With a gesture from Jiang Ning, the Spirit Fire went out. He spread the fist-sized mass of spiritual liquid into a thin sheet and exposed it to the air to cool.

Once the spicy scent had faded, he gestured again. The green spiritual liquid turned into streams of water and flowed into three pristine White Jade Bottles.

Holding a jade bottle between his fingers, Jiang Ning muttered, "The ingredients for three bottles of Evergreen Liquid cost fifteen yuan in total. What should I price them at?"

After a brief consideration, Jiang Ning decided to first target the mid-to-high-end market and set what he considered a reasonable price: two thousand yuan per bottle.

Two thousand yuan for a full head of black hair and renewed youth.

Though it would only last two or three months, Jiang Ning felt he was still being quite reasonable compared to those major cosmetic and beauty brands.

After all, a single lipstick could cost many women several hundred yuan.

A bottle of skincare lotion could easily cost one or two thousand yuan, while expensive ones could even exceed ten thousand. Their effects were average at best, yet countless women still bought them.

Jiang Ning's Evergreen Liquid, however, had real, tangible effects. It genuinely served one's health, was brewed with Spiritual Energy, and had absolutely no side effects.

"Someone should buy it, right?"

Jiang Ning was not entirely certain.

Because its effects were so potent that it could make a bald person grow a full head of thick black hair, Evergreen Liquid was more suitable for men. Physiologically speaking, men were more prone to baldness.

Most bald people he saw around him were men. Take his English teacher, Chen Haiyang, for example. Not only was he bald, his head reflected light.

In recent years, some people in the capital market had mocked the ranking of consumer spending power as: women > children > the elderly > pets > men.

But that was not entirely true. When it came to their own hair, men would definitely not be stingy about investing in themselves.

Hair was even more important than height. Only those who had truly experienced that pain would understand how much it mattered.

In China alone, there were hundreds of millions of people suffering from hair loss. As long as he could capture even a portion of those users, Jiang Ning would no longer need to worry about cultivation resources.

Of course, Evergreen Liquid could also be marketed to women. Women with hair loss rarely went completely bald, but their hair could become sparse, especially after giving birth, when hair loss worsened.

In such cases, some wealthy women would not mind spending a few thousand yuan.

Women were naturally fond of beauty. Opening the market through women first would also be much easier.

But whether it would work or not, he would have to launch it and see. He planned to leave this matter to Shao Shuangshuang.

Jiang Ning had observed Shao Shuangshuang that day. Her hair loss was somewhat severe, and once she used Evergreen Liquid, the effects would be immediate.

He had already made up his mind. The next time he went to see Shao Shuangshuang, he would find a way to bring up Evergreen Liquid.

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