Lin Yuan looked at the "A-rank Potions" in the catalog.
Potions were concoctions made with Transcendent Cores as their main ingredients. Humans could gain the corresponding Transcendent Skills by drinking them.
This was also the main way ordinary people advanced on the transcendent side.
Of course, advancement was not as simple as just drinking a potion. There were all sorts of requirements for the person drinking it.
This was not the path Lin Yuan followed, so he had never paid much attention to it before.
Still, however little attention he paid, he knew some of the basics.
For example, one Transcendent Core could only be made into one bottle of potion.
A bottle of potion could only be drunk by one person.
Following this simple, straightforward logic, a little thought made it clear that a bottle of potion could never cost less than the Transcendent Core used as its raw material.
In particular, the higher the potion's rank, the more precise the techniques and the more expensive the supplementary ingredients needed to concoct it. Its value would only rise even further above that of the Transcendent Core.
But that was not at all the case in the catalog in Lin Yuan's hands.
An A-rank Transcendent Core from a "Mountain-Melting Giant Tortoise" was listed at 500,000 Shell Coins.
Yet the "Mountain-Melting Shield Potion" concocted from it cost only 100,000 Shell Coins.
For a moment, Lin Yuan suspected that the latter's listed price was missing a zero.
In fact, even selling the "Mountain-Melting Shield Potion" for a million would practically be charity.
Back on East Pole Island, Lin Yuan had learned from a conversation with Steward Liu that, for high-grade potions in general, half their value lay in the main ingredient, and the other half in the supplementary ingredients and techniques.
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