After the time it took an incense stick to burn.
Chen Changming carried five hundred sets of ingredients for Sky Spirit Pills as he left the Seven Treasures Pavilion and returned all the way to his rented cave abode in Immortal Taming City.
Although Chen Changming had refined a batch of Sky Spirit Pills in the Seven Treasures Pavilion at a five-to-one cost, after the shopkeeper gave him five hundred sets of ingredients, he did not demand that Chen Changming refine one hundred batches.
It was seventy batches.
This gave Chen Changming a certain amount of room to maneuver.
The shopkeeper had also said that any extra Sky Spirit Pills he refined could be sold to the Seven Treasures Pavilion.
Chen Changming had agreed at the time.
"If I'd refined Sky Spirit Pills in the very first batch at the Seven Treasures Pavilion, they probably would have opened their jaws like lions..."
Standing in the cave abode, Chen Changming chuckled softly.
He had only just arrived in Eastern Jin and was unfamiliar with the place, so he could not be too conspicuous in his dealings.
In his cooperation with the Seven Treasures Pavilion, the other side held the initiative. If he had refined Sky Spirit Pills in the first batch, then after supplying him with five hundred sets of ingredients, they would likely have demanded at least two hundred batches of pills from him.
Chen Changming was no novice in the world of alchemy, but a genuine alchemy master. Naturally, he understood that for a pill like the Sky Spirit Pill, most alchemists suffered a considerable failure rate when refining it.
Thus, after concealing his true ability, Chen Changming not only lowered the Seven Treasures Pavilion's expectations of him, but could also mooch a huge pile of ingredients for free.