"I'm glad I didn't let you down!" Tang Changsheng smiled faintly and took out a jade bottle. "Luck was on our side this time. I refined twelve Spirit-Nourishing Pills in all... and their quality is quite good..."
At those words, everyone present went wild with excitement. The Spirit-Nourishing Pills had finally been refined!
They had prepared themselves for this, yet as they looked at the pills in Tang Changsheng's hand, every one of them trembled slightly.
They had spent nearly a billion on materials to refine these twelve Spirit-Nourishing Pills. On average, each pill had cost tens of millions, nearly a hundred million—an outrageous price.
But not one of them thought it wasn't worth it!
After all, for many people,
no amount of money was too much to pay for another half year of life, another year, or even another month...
A hundred million Great Chu Gold Yuan might be a vast sum to someone else.
But what was a billion to the leaders of this enormous nation, whose annual military spending alone exceeded a trillion?
Now that Tang Changsheng had succeeded at Pill Refining, surely even more people would offer even more money to have him refine pills...
Human life could be worth very little. It could also be worth more than anything.
Perhaps it was politically incorrect to say so, but that was the truth.
If an ordinary person was killed by a car, the compensation would be no more than a few hundred thousand. That was the value of a life...
Yet some people would spare no expense, not even eight hundred million or a billion, to live one more year.
"As the pill refiner, I did the hardest work. It's only fair that I take two Spirit-Nourishing Pills, isn't it?" Tang Changsheng smiled faintly and, without