"Five thousand taels of gold? What an extravagant sum!"
Even Crown Prince Han Bai, who had always lived in luxury, was stunned by the profits from the Youth-Preserving Pills. His eyes widened in disbelief.
His annual stipend amounted to only a little over four hundred taels of gold, yet a single bottle of pills Ye Uchiha casually refined could fetch such an astronomical price. Then the pills he had been eating these past few days must have...
At that thought, Han Bai clutched his chest. He suddenly felt as though he were having a heart attack. His heart ached terribly, as if winged pieces of gold were flying away before his eyes.
I've been eating gold all this time!
"Rest assured, Your Highness. As long as there are enough medicinal ingredients, I can refine other pills. When the time comes, I'll be relying on your help again."
Ye Uchiha viewed the matter from a different angle. He had learned that Great General Ji Wuye had spent a fortune buying most of his Youth-Preserving Pills.
It seemed the Great General intended to extend a gesture of goodwill. He would probably send someone to have a chat with him before long.
As Han's most powerful figure, Ji Wuye controlled the kingdom's military, finances, politics, and intelligence network. Ye Uchiha was certain the Great General possessed wealth to rival an entire nation.
He simply wondered how much he could talk the man into giving him.
With the pills he had refined and consumed, Ye Uchiha had already become a Peak Second-Class Martial Artist. Although only a hair's breadth separated him from a first-class martial artist, that tiny gap was like an impassable chasm, leaving him unable to advance an inch.
Perhaps the cultivation he had built up through pills was like a castle