Chen Yuankui left the mission hall, his heart brimming with excitement.
He had never imagined that Azure Cloud City would be so generous. Not only did they rent him a pill furnace that was a first-grade magical artifact, they even offered him a wage of one thousand Spirit Stones for every pill.
Do not be fooled by the low price per pill. A single batch contained far more than one or two pills. Added together, it was a considerable income.
It almost made him reluctant to leave Azure Cloud City...
Of course, he still had to return. Otherwise, he would have come to Azure Cloud City long ago.
Carrying the pill furnace and medicinal ingredients he had just collected, he hurried back to the courtyard and began refining pills.
Seven days later, he returned to turn in the task.
His pill formation rate was only seventy percent. He had refined just seventy-nine pills and obtained only six portions of Core Tempering Liquid, barely passing.
His wages came to ninety-one thousand Spirit Stones.
Although he did not need to compensate them for the failed medicinal ingredients, he had to pay the rental fee for the pill furnace—twenty-one thousand Spirit Stones for seven days.
In the end, he earned seventy thousand Spirit Stones.
Holding those seventy thousand Spirit Stones in his hands, Chen Yuankui was overjoyed.
He knew very well that, because it was his first time using a first-grade magical artifact pill furnace, he had failed to control the heat properly, which was why so many batches had failed.
If he kept refining, would not his success rate grow higher and higher, his pills become better and better, and his earnings increase more and more?
He had no time to think of anything else. He quickly accepted another mission, rented a