A Mother's Love Was a Little Heavy (Four Extra Chapters for Monthly Votes)

Chen Shu bought two Auxiliary Potions and received two Essence-Returning Pills as gifts.

This time, he didn't buy from Blue Light Company again.

He switched to North River Company.

Blue Light Company's potions were affordable and offered good value for money. Its business model relied on high sales volume at the low end of the market.

It was a good choice for potions used at lower tiers.

North River Company, on the other hand, specialized in premium, higher-tier products. Its potions cost more, but its mid-tier potions worked better and had gentler spiritual effects.

Auxiliary Potions for breaking through to the Fourth Tier were different from the potions he had used for his first three breakthroughs. As long as those earlier potions were used correctly, their success rates were close to 100%. So any potion made by a legitimate company and approved through national testing worked the same way. The expensive ones were almost entirely a tax on stupidity.

Breaking through to the Fourth Tier was another matter.

At this stage, every potion could only provide assistance. The basic principle was to supply additional Spirit Power during the breakthrough and make one's own Spirit Power more active. The latter was like giving one's Spirit Sea a shot of stimulant or enhancer, which helped to some extent when striking the Spirit Lock.

That was only the basic principle. The details were complicated, and every company did things differently.

Compared with the near-100% success rate of the first three breakthroughs, the assistance any company's potion could provide this time was much weaker.

Still, there were differences between companies' products.

The differences in price were even greater.

Earlier potions had varied in price too, but the most expensive could never cost more than twice as much as the cheapest. Fourth Tier potions were