My Scales Can Make Equivalent Exchange
Chapter 297 - 294: Trying the Medicine Again

Chapter 297: Chapter 294: Trying the Medicine Again

Sha Wenguang took out his own identity card, tapped out a light screen, operated it for a moment, and then pushed it in front of Wang Zijia, saying, "Martial Uncle, please take a look for yourself."

Wang Zijia looked at the light screen and discovered that there were as many as three hundred varieties. These were the second-grade elixirs in stock that met Wang Zijia’s requirements. If one didn’t consider whether the stock was available, this number would have to be doubled.

This shows the depth of Wanyu’s resources, which is why he didn’t search for anything at Southward Street, instead, he visited the branch of the Pill Institute.

Wang Zijia kept looking at the light screen, checking and selecting. For example, he removed highly poisonous elixirs that could instantly cause death, special drugs with strong corrosion, those with too rare and uncommon materials, and ones that were obviously expensive with low cost-performance ratios, etc.

After fussing over them for a long time, there were about a hundred left in the end.

"Alright, for these elixirs, give me one of each kind." Wang Zijia pushed the light screen back.

Sha Wenguang stared at the order that seemed like a bulk purchase, yet he only wanted one pill of each kind. It was obvious that he was testing the medicine. He was slightly stunned for a moment before saying, "Alright, Martial Uncle, there is a lot of stuff. You might have to wait a while."

"Hmm!" Wang Zijia nodded.

After receiving approval from Wang Zijia, Sha Wenguang operated it quickly. Then he said, "Martial Uncle, would you like me to show you around?"

"That’s fine!" While Wang Zijia was nodding, he was led by Sha Wenguang to tour the second floor. At the same time, Sha Wenguang meticulously explained some boutique elixirs to him.

After a good while, the people in the warehouse finally prepared the things. The two men came to the checkout area.

"Martial Uncle, you have selected a total of one hundred and three elixirs, most of which are of the explosive, curse, and highly poisonous class."

"These cannot be considered as daily elixirs, more expensive than ordinary elixirs, and total to 15643 Dao Kung. Because you, Martial Uncle, have Dao Child privileges, you can apply an 80% discount at all the stores set up by the Pill Institute. The final settlement is 12514 Dao Kung."

At the checkout area, a sales disciple said to Wang Zijia with a smile.

"I just returned to the clan, and I currently have only ten thousand Dao Kungs. Can I be billed for it?" Wang Zijia asked with a frown.

At this moment, Sha Wenguang immediately responded, "I have extra Dao Kung, you can pay me in magic money on a one-for-one basis."

Wang Zijia shook his head, directly transferred over 2700 magic money, and at a price ten percent higher than the normal market price, traded it to Sha Wenguang.

If Sha Wenguang were a martial uncle or brother, it would be okay. But as a junior, two to three hundred magic money was not a small amount. Therefore, given his current status, he could not afford to take advantage of this tiny situation.

Otherwise, it would be quite troubling even if he was asked for a small favor someday.

"You, Martial Uncle, are really too polite!" Sha Wenguang grinned and replied, yet he lacked any trace of joy on his face.

Wang Zijia didn’t say anything more. He took the elixirs, didn’t linger, and turned around to leave the Pill Medicine Pavilion directly.

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It was still early when he returned to the Biyi Court, Xiang Feifei went to the Fu Tower, and she wouldn’t be able to leave early for a short time.

The other ladies, Bai Qian and the others, also took their work seriously because they hadn’t worked for a while, so at this moment, there was no one in the great Biyi Court.

Wang Zijia went back to the cultivation room and first checked his wallet.

Magic money: 48899

Dao Kung: 0

The Dao Kung he just got was used up before it even got warm.

And the original ten-odd thousand magic money was mostly used up due to his recent breakthrough to the middle stage of Sacrifical Wine.

The remaining money, though it looked like a lot, could not support his breakthrough to the latter stage of Sacrificial Wine. Even to fill up the value gap of the remaining three magic doors to Great Mastery was rather tight.

"I’m poor! It seems I still have to quietly turn those 100,000 demonic spirit root holders in the Demon Suppression Sect into congenital martial artists, and carry out massive exorcism!"

"Hmm, I’m not concerned about that little pollution of the sinners, I’m doing this for the common people of Tianhong, for the world!"

"That’s right, I, Wang Zijia, am such a selfless person!"

While talking to himself, Wang Zijia first opened the upgraded version of the Explosive Spirit Pill series: the Bursting Origin Pill.

As soon as the pill entered his mouth, it melted, and instantly, a familiar berserk power swept over his whole body.

"Value + 451!"

Before it even exploded, it was converted by Wang Zijia into value. Without thinking, he smacked his lips twice, feeling that the taste was similar. It must have been the different years of the main medicine that resulted in different effects.

Looking at the value, Wang Zijia frowned slightly. Four hundred and fifty-point value seemed not small, but one pill required a 108 Dao Kung, and at least 200 magic money at Southward Street.

Calculating it this way, one piece of magic money could only exchange for 2.5 points of value at most. Compared to the just over three points of revenue from the previous Explosive Spirit Pill, it was a lot less.

Frowning, Wang Zijia started to eat the exploding type of pills continuously.

"Value +401!"

"Value +345!"

"······"

In a moment, Wang Zijia had finished eating the exploding kind, and his brow furrowed deeply.

It was almost certain that the medicinal effect of the elixirs seemed to have strengthened as their grades increased, but for someone like Wang Zijia who engaged in a direct exchange, his gains generally decreased instead.

And looking at this trend, the higher the grade of the elixir, the lower the return. This involved the time cost of medicine age, the rareness of the medicine, the costs of mass cultivation, and even problems where cultivation was impossible.

After all, others looked at absorption efficiency, Wang Zijia purely looked at the cost-effectiveness of the elixirs produced.

With such contemplation, Wang Zijia consumed the remaining curse status elixirs one by one.

Among them, an elixir that caused excitement - a second-grade Bewildering God Pill - gave Wang Zijia a surprise. It belonged to the most expensive batch that Wang Zijia had purchased, costing three hundred magic money per pill. Originally, he did not hold much hope for its cost-effectiveness.

But it was only after the exchange that he realized that it was worth as much as 1053, exceeding a ratio of one to three, reaching around three and a half!

Filled with surprise and expectation, Wang Zijia carefully consumed the remaining twenty-odd second-grade poison pills one by one.

Each time he consumed one, he would check the weights and only continue to the next one after confirming there was no problem. He only exchanged the poison weights for cultivation after consuming all twenty-odd of them.

"Value +8355!"

The mixed poison from twenty-one poison pills yielded over eight thousand in value, the ratio still did not exceed three but it was already close, surpassing the second-grade Bursting Origin Pill.

Among all the second-grade elixirs, the one that yielded the highest returns was the Bewildering God Pill, and the one with the most potential turned out to be poison, especially high-quality mixed poison, which was worth looking forward to.

Dao cultivation: 150 years (578291/1 million)

After a night of attempting, excluding the discounts, he spent fifteen thousand magic money and gained thirty-seven thousand cultivation, the cost-effectiveness ratio was only at about 2.4. Clearly, for a long time to come, he needed to start consuming Bewildering God Pills.

However, if he wanted to consume this type of elixir in large quantities, he had to first accumulate the necessary resources in Bai Qian.

Otherwise, making long-term bulk purchases would be challenging to sell. Fortunately, there weren’t few making long-term purchases for this kind of stimulating elixir, there was no problem in the short-term. It would only be easy to disrupt the market if this carried on for a long time, causing a collective price increase.

Bai Qian had also been practicing alchemy for over a year. There were still more than forty thousand in value left when she tried last time, which was just enough to prepare for a breakthrough to become a sacrificial wine expert!

Anyhow, he was not thinking of cultivating her into a monk who fought and killed at every turn. She only needed to be responsible for refining his elixirs, so currently, there was no need to consider martial techniques. Once her cultivation was high enough, she could go get her own understanding.

He was not a nanny, he could not do everything for her. In regards to alchemy, it could be considered as the cost of time she spent for Wang Zijia in refining elixirs for him free of charge!

Even in terms of alchemy, Wang Zijia had to get her six alchemy techniques, along with one Foundation Building Spiritual Medicine Guide, and a Bewildering God Pill recipe. With all these added up, it was quite a big investment!

There was simply no way to evade this, it was something that was obligatory.

Of course, the investment could not be without returns. As soon as she advanced to becoming a sacrificial wine master, Wang Zijia will begin earning money, and the materials he purchased would not take up all of her alchemy time, and then she could start earning money.

The amount...would that count as him being supported by her?

No way, that’s impossible!

Doesn’t matter, the child I raised with my strength, why can’t she support me...no, support him?

With various thoughts flickering through his mind, the future development path for Bai Qian was gradually finalized.

...

Wang Zijia went to work, taught classes, looked up the information related to alchemists, and used his privileges as Dao Child to check the Nine Alchemy Techniques he could get.

Days went by peacefully and fulfilling.

In the blink of an eye, ten days passed.

The information on the population that Wang Zijia had asked An Xingsheng to check on, which was ’disappeared’ by the Law Enforcement Team, was not yet clear. Suddenly, Min Xin and Jiang Mingda, whom Wang Zijia had made Shadow Beast Hidden Group spies responsible for, simultaneously sent him a message.

They said that someone from above had contacted them, asking to meet for important issues to discuss, and asked him how they should react.

...

That night, in the courtyard of Min Xin’s house in the Beast Control Vein.

Min Xin waited quietly in the courtyard, after an unknown amount of time, the Old Taoist figure of Wang Zijia suddenly appeared out of the void.

"Greetings, Senior Brother Ding Shen!" Upon seeing Ding Shen who he had not seen for a long time, Min Xin immediately paid his respects.

Even though it had been nearly a year since their last meeting, the profound impression Wang Zijia had left on him had not lessened in the slightest.

"Tell me about the situation of the person who contacted us!" Wang Zijia asked indifferently.

"About that...I am not very clear," Min Xin’s face stiffened as he responded.

Wang Zijia looked at Min Xin, his eyebrows slightly furrowed.

Seeing Wang Zijia’s reaction, Min Xin quickly explained in fear, "The one who contacted us this time wasn’t the master of the Ghost Spirit Hall, but an unknown superior, activating the emergency backup contact method."

When the Ghost Spirit Dark Hall was first established, or when any dark hall was established within the Wanyu Sect, the first thing they considered was secrecy, as well as how to minimize the involvement when one person was caught. These were considered the combined reasons. Over the years, all groups had been utilizing a single-line method of contact, even the list only maintained one level up and down.

For example, Min Xin only had the list of people off the bottom of his group, and was responsible for single-line contact with them, generally not interfering nor interacting with those that his direct subordinates had developed.

To prevent accidents, such as sudden death of the face Min Xin, leading to a sudden break in all contacts. Each group was divided into two people who were responsible for the contact.