"Cult Master, these three pill recipes should be fine, right?"
Seeing Su Yuan staring intently at the Pill Recipes, Qi Hanyua asked anxiously.
Su Yuan came back to himself and smiled.
"There's nothing wrong with any of the three recipes, but that's the biggest problem of all."
"Huh? What do you mean?"
The girl was thoroughly confused.
Su Yuan waved the recipes in his hand, his tone casual.
"It's simple. The ingredients in these three Pill Recipes seem a little too expensive. You've used especially high-quality medicinal herbs."
"If we can't bring down the cost of the ingredients, how can our pills compete with those churned out by big factories?"
"Then... then what do we do?"
Qi Hanyua asked cautiously.
Su Yuan answered without hesitation, pointing to one of the recipes.
"Take this Three-Turn Golden Pill, for example. It shapes the body, improves kidney vitality, toughens the skin, and boosts resistance to poison."
"For the ingredient that improves kidney vitality, you chose ten-year-old epimedium, whose market price is sky-high."
"This plant-based spirit herb is expensive and often out of stock. We might as well take a different approach and replace it with an animal-based ingredient."
"For example, the kidneys of a green bamboo rat. Processed with a few inexpensive auxiliary ingredients, they can basically replace ten-year-old epimedium."
"By the same logic, the Immune Flower needed to boost resistance to poison can also be replaced with an animal-based ingredient..."
Su Yuan launched into a long explanation, extensively revising Qi Hanyua's recipes.
He replaced more than half of the plant-based spirit herbs with ingredients from farm-raised spirit beasts.
And after these sweeping changes, the revised recipes had no clashes between the medicinal properties of their ingredients.
They were, in every respect, sound recipes that could withstand scrutiny.
Qi Hanyua was dumbfounded.
*Come