Unexpected Encounter
"Your price is too high. How could we possibly come up with that many immortal crystals? Even if we tried to scrape together such a sum, it would take a great deal of time. Can't we agree on different terms?" Yan Zhen snorted.
"I'm an alchemist. If you have a sufficiently valuable and uncommon pill recipe, or immortal plants worth the same as fifty thousand low-grade immortal crystals, or even some rare immortal plant seeds, those would work too—especially plants of the lightning element," Lu Xiaotian added.
"A pill recipe? I happen to have one, and it's rare enough that I'd wager few other alchemists have ever seen it. Want to take a look?" While the others still thought Lu Xiaotian's terms were just as demanding, Cheng Santong's eyes lit up.
"What recipe?" Lu Xiaotian asked.
"The Five Qingxuan Pills! Have you heard of them?" Cheng Santong didn't produce the recipe right away. "Qingxuan Immortal Brew comes in five flavors, each an unparalleled delicacy in the immortal realm. But this immortal wine needs a pill as its catalyst. Once those pills are refined, even wine brewed with relatively ordinary immortal spring water is a rare sight on the market. You can only occasionally find it at major auctions. I came across this recipe by chance during an adventure, and it's definitely worth fifty thousand low-grade immortal crystals."
"I'm not so sure," Wang Kun said, exposing Cheng Santong's nonsense. "The recipe itself may be valuable, but according to what I've heard, many of the immortal plants it requires have gone extinct, or are grown only in small quantities by the upper echelons of the Heavenly Court. What use is the recipe in our Mukun Immortal Region?"
"This..." Cheng Santong's old face reddened, but he quickly recovered. "Didn't Fellow Daoist