Maybe it was because Li Guan was wearing the Taoist robe of an inner disciple, so just after he came in, an outer disciple came up, saluted quickly, and called him senior brother.
He also named himself Qin Yi.
"I don't know if senior brother came here to buy medicine, or..."
"My name is Li Guan. I'm buying medicinal materials."
"Senior Brother Li, come with me. There are better quality medicinal materials for sale in the backyard of Baicaotang." Qin Yi quickly led the way, and Li Guan followed leisurely behind.
Before he came to Baicaotang to buy medicine, it was an outsider who came to buy things.
Now I’m buying things from my sect’s industry.
If you are alert to your surroundings differently, your mentality will naturally be different.
If they were cheated when buying things from their own property, the token of a direct disciple of Li Guan would be thrown in their face.
Do you dare to defraud Elder Qiu's personal disciple, the Prince of the Discipline Hall, out of his money?
What do you think of the sect’s precepts?
Qin Yi led Li Guan to the backyard of the courtyard. The number of people here was much smaller, and the sales here were more formal. They were all placed in wooden cabinets with medicinal materials written on them.
"Senior brother, do you need anything? If you don't mind, I can prepare it for you. I just need to wait for a while."
The reason why Qin Yi said this was to avoid being thought by Li Guan to spy on his prescription. After all, a cherished prescription is a money tree.
Prescriptions are not only the so-called combination of materials, but also the processing methods, proportions, and order of placement of each medicinal material. These are all information on the prescription.
Otherwise, if there is a list of ingredients on the back of Coca-Cola, can you make Coca-Cola?
When Li Guan heard this, he didn't waste any words. He took out a list and handed it to Qin Yida: "Prepare these for me."
Qin Yi took the list and checked it carefully. He raised his head and said respectfully to Li Guan: "Brother, these medicinal materials cost three taels of silver each."
"Three to two..."
Li Guan thought about it for a while and suddenly realized that the pill industry seemed to be a bit rich.
Is this kind of handicraft so popular?
"Are you buying elixirs here?"
Li Guan naturally needs to find a seller to make alchemy, and selling it to Baicaotang is naturally the most convenient.
"Acquisition, natural acquisition.
Although I have no intention of spying on my senior brother’s elixir recipe, my junior brother has a family background and can tell that this is a pill that nourishes qi and blood, and its effect is not much different from that of qi and blood pills...
This type of pills sell best, after all, the divine power realm is the majority in Jinling Mansion.
Depending on the quality, the purchase price can be between twelve to eighteen taels..."
"But I used to buy them for twenty taels."
Are the middlemen so ruthless? In the end, they only have warriors who can't make elixirs.
"Senior brother... the sect also wants to make money. This also depends on the price given by the sect disciples. Otherwise, most of them will be purchased at twelve taels regardless of quality."
Qin Yi said with a wry smile.
Li Dian nodded, but didn't say anything. A portion of 32 medicinal materials can be used to make three pills. If it succeeds every time, even if the quality is the lowest.
That's also thirty-six taels of silver, which can be resold...
900% profit.
Capitalists will go crazy when they hear it!
"You can prepare thirty portions for me first."
Li Guan only had less than two hundred taels left, so he had better test the waters first and see how much money this sack could hold.
Qin Yi nodded and quickly went to get the medicine.
Not long after, a package was delivered to Li Guan, which contained the medicinal materials that Li Guan needed. He wanted to make a pill called "Guijiawan".
The reason why it is called this is because its main medicinal material is called "tortoise shell grass". The leaves have texture like tortoise shells and have nothing to do with turtles.
Li Guan, who returned to the branch of the Immortal Path with the medicinal materials, did not go back to his room, but came to the cafeteria, found the kitchen of the cafeteria, found the outer disciple who was on duty here and made his request.
This disciple heard Li Guan's request.
There was a strange look on his face.
Abandoned cauldron?
"Brother, it's okay to use it if you want, but this pot has been used to fry black pigs before. Although the pot was cleaned, the smell seeped into the pot.
It may have some influence on your cooking."
"It's irrelevant." Li Guan just wanted to find a pot, as long as there was a pot.
"If senior brother wants to open a small stove, there is a small kitchen. It's okay for senior brother to use it." This outer disciple thought that Li Guan wanted to cook his own food, which was normal.
Prepare some small kitchens separately for their use.
Just a simple crucible and a small stove, so that these disciples can add their own meals.
"OK, thanks."
"Senior brother, you're welcome."
Li Guan carried a big pot and came to the small kitchen that the outer disciple said. It was fully equipped with firewood, rice, oil and salt, but Li Guan was not here to cook, but to make elixirs.
Refining alchemy is nothing more than using special methods of processing medicinal materials and proportioning them so that their medicinal properties can match each other, so that one plus one is greater than two, or even greater than three, four, five or six.
Li Guan has already memorized the medicinal materials in the prescription of 'Turtle Shell Pill', as well as the processing methods and refining steps.
"Mix white jade flowers and goat beans and stew for half an hour, grind Smilax poria into powder..."
Li Guan poured a large basin of water into the cauldron. Alchemy was not as mysterious as he thought. Perhaps more powerful pills would be a bit more mysterious.
If you want to directly shape the elixir, you need something like an elixir furnace, which can control the elixir's shape by controlling the direction of the incoming wind and the size of the fire.
That's the fire refining method. Li Guan doesn't have the money to buy that fancy thing now, so he uses the water refining method.
It is called the cauldron stew method for short.
This kind of elixir suitable for the realm of divine power can be mixed with water. As long as the proportions are correct, it can be burned into a gel and then taken out and kneaded into elixirs.
The effect is not much different.
At best, it just looks weird.
After processing the medicinal materials, Li Guan turned on [Overclocking by One Degree]. Although he knew all kinds of pharmacology, he still needed to use [Overclocking by One Degree] to calculate the dosage of these medicinal materials.
You can control what happens at any time.
Li Guan kept throwing medicinal materials into the pot. It looked like they were throwing them randomly, but in fact, they were all thrown down without any difference in temperature and temperature through Li Guan's eyes, which were already comparable to weighing medicines.
The medicinal liquid in the iron pot continues to boil, and the medicinal materials become viscous under the flame, exuding a faint medicinal fragrance.
A scent of medicine slowly floated out, making Li Guan's eyes light up slightly. Could it be that the elixir is ready?
Refining alchemy is not that difficult.
Isn't it just a formula?
When the water slowly dried up, there was a red gel-like mass in the center of the large pot. Li Guan didn't mind it being too hot, so he took out a third of it.
After leaving the bottom of the pot, the rapidly lowering temperature will cause the gel-like substance to solidify. Before it solidified, Li Guan held it in the palm of his hand and shook it hard.
A round pill appeared in Li Guan's hand.
"Turtle Shell Pill, it's done."
Li Guan looked at the round pill in his palm. To be on the safe side, Li Guan swallowed it in one gulp instead of using the 'Human Body Entry Modification' to swallow it.
Suddenly, an almost invisible flow of qi and blood flowed out of the stomach. It was very, very weak, not even comparable to the qi and blood produced by Li Guan's own exercise.
Although it has a weird smell, it is possible and useful.
Now you can put money in sacks.
Since it is effective, Li Guan will not let it go. As long as the nosebleeds are not gone, he will not stop.
Thirty portions of medicinal materials, that is, ninety pills, sold at once will cost nearly a thousand taels of silver, or nearly a hundred taels of gold.
It turns out that alchemy is so profitable. It seems that it is not unreasonable for the Qin family to be the head of the three families.
However, I should have the blessing of the entry, and I don’t know what the normal rate of elixir production is.