Three days later, inside the Treasure Pavilion on Gold and Silver Terrace.
Xu Yan swept twelve Azure Bottles out of his Qiankun Bag in one motion and set them on the counter. The Treasure Pavilion's steward raised his brows and carefully inspected them one by one.
Afterward, the steward nodded. "Not bad. They are all mid-to-high-grade Essence Nurturing Pills."
After taking inventory, the steward removed spirit stones from his Qiankun Bag—four hundred and twenty in all. Xu Yan narrowed his eyes and calculated in secret.
The path of alchemy was truly a windfall of staggering profits.
Xu Yan had bought fifty portions each of the five-element spirit herb ingredients, all around fifty years old, for only three hundred spirit stones.
At present, he had used only twenty portions of the five-element spirit herbs.
Seven portions had failed, while twelve batches of mid-to-high-grade pills had been refined. A few days ago, he had successfully produced a batch of high-grade pills for the first time.
The mid-to-high-grade Essence Nurturing Pills Xu Yan sold came five to a bottle and fetched thirty-five spirit stones.
High-grade Essence Nurturing Pills, meanwhile, cost fifty spirit stones per bottle.
Exquisite-grade pills were even more expensive, requiring two hundred spirit stones—and even then, they were priced but unavailable.
Still, only an alchemist like Xu Yan, who had not failed his very first batch and had even refined mid-to-high-grade pills, could rake in such enormous profits.
Xu Yan himself was highly focused and patient, making him well suited to such tedious work as alchemy.
Moreover, he had the Miaoyuan Edict with him. It could stabilize the vital currents of heaven and earth, greatly increasing his success rate in alchemy.
Counting the spirit stones in his Qiankun Bag, including the more than six hundred spirit stones he had obtained from