After saying that, Lu Mingyu slowly stepped off the stage, and an ordinary-looking woman walked up.
"Next up is the first item of this auction."
"Four bottles of Three-Patterned Revitalizing Pills, with ten pills in each bottle."
"As a healing holy medicine among Third-Grade Pills, Revitalizing Pills are no easier to refine than certain Fourth-Grade Pills."
"In terms of prolonging one's life, these pills even surpass Fourth-Grade Pills."
"The starting bid is forty thousand Source Pills, with each raise no less than one thousand."
As soon as her words fell, people in the auction hall began placing bids one after another.
Private Room.
"Four bottles of Revitalizing Pills can sell for fifty thousand Source Pills? Do they not treat money as money?"
Seeing someone bid fifty thousand Source Pills, Guan Ping, seated in the Private Room, immediately clutched her heart in distress.
Chen Changsheng said flatly, "You think four bottles of Revitalizing Pills aren't worth that much because you're an alchemist yourself."
"Under ideal conditions, one set of ingredients for Revitalizing Pills can produce two pills."
"Forty Revitalizing Pills require at least twenty sets of ingredients."
"Each set of ingredients costs around nine hundred Source Pills, so twenty sets would cost eighteen thousand Source Pills."
"The starting price of forty thousand Source Pills is already rather cheap."
Hearing Chen Changsheng's words, Guan Ping said excitedly, "But that's still a huge profit!"
"An eighteen-thousand-Source-Pill investment turning into fifty thousand Source Pills—this is practically the most profitable business under heaven."
"It's very profitable for you, but not necessarily for other alchemists."
Chen Changsheng muttered as he picked up a grape and popped it into his mouth.
"Producing two pills from one furnace batch isn't something just any alchemist can accomplish."
"Revitalizing Pills are difficult to refine. Even Fifth-Grade Alchemists can't guarantee