Grinding Proficiency in a Chaotic World
Chapter 58

Repaying a Favor

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"From now on, you can come collect three Blood-Strengthening Pills from me each month. Blood-Strengthening Pills are made by simmering nine rare herbs, including Dragon-Sun Herb. They nourish your qi and blood much faster and more effectively than tiger meat."

Blood-Strengthening Pills sold for two taels of silver apiece.

Of course, that was only the price on paper.

In reality, they were often impossible to buy, no matter how much one was willing to pay.

As soon as the Pill Hall finished refining a batch, the various martial halls and great lineages would reserve them.

Ordinary people couldn't buy them even if they had the silver.

They were in such high demand because they had advantages that tiger meat and other Beast Meat simply couldn't match.

They were fast!

The qi and blood dissolved and spread through the body faster than those from Beast Meat of equal value.

So you could say that buying Blood-Strengthening Pills was really buying "time."

Given the same amount of time, taking Blood-Strengthening Pills allowed one to absorb more qi and blood than eating Beast Meat.

For the great clans and powerful lineages, silver was secondary. What mattered most was effectiveness.

Thinking of this, Liang Hangzhou smiled awkwardly.

Three qi-and-blood pills weren't much for a Dark Force martial artist like Li Chuan.

At most, one pill would last a day, so three would only be enough for three days.

Giving him only three a month was a little embarrassing.

But there was no helping it...

He was too poor!

As the saying went, a fist feared the vigor of youth.

As he grew older, the qi and blood in his body had begun to slowly wane.

Every month, he had to take a great many rare tonics just to barely keep up with the rate

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