Devouring Soul Emperor

Chapter 337: Chapter 337: All Quiet

Hearing that Chu Qingyun was about to refine elixirs again,

Qin Ya’s interest was immediately piqued. "What are you refining this time?" she asked. "The Spiritual Longevity Pill? Or that Green Wind Swift Shadow Pill? If it’s that one, it’ll definitely sell for a good price!"

’A Spiritual Longevity Pill...’

Chu Qingyun thought for a moment and gently shook his head.

Even among Spirit Level elixirs, the value of different types could vary greatly.

For example, basic elixirs like the Cyan Wind Pill or Rejuvenation Pill only required four or five types of Spiritual Medicine. The cost was extremely low, only about forty to fifty drops of Primordial Spirit Liquid.

The refining difficulty was also very basic. Any reasonably experienced Alchemist could maintain a high success rate, making them common practice elixirs for novices.

Therefore, their price wasn’t high, usually selling for just over a hundred drops of Primordial Spirit Liquid. At an auction, they might fetch a little over one hundred and fifty drops at most—after all, the people who attended auctions weren’t fools.

An elixir like the Spiritual Longevity Pill, on the other hand, required over twenty types of Spiritual Medicine for its ingredients alone, including several very rare Tier Three Spiritual Medicines. The cost was over three hundred drops of Primordial Spirit Liquid, and that was before factoring in the extremely high refining difficulty.

A conservative estimate for a single Spiritual Longevity Pill would be at least 1,500 drops of Primordial Spirit Liquid. If a bidding war broke out at an auction, the price could probably soar past two thousand with ease.

For Chu Qingyun, the success rate of refining wasn’t a concern. The problem, however, was that those few very rare Tier Three Spiritual Medicines were simply too scarce.

Even though Qin Ya had already sent out requests to the Ten Thousand Treasures Tower branches in the cities below, she still hadn’t managed to gather even a single complete set of ingredients.

With only two Spiritual Longevity Pills on hand, it was unrealistic to expect to earn enough Primordial Spirit Liquid from them.

After a moment of consideration, Chu Qingyun’s gaze sharpened, and he made his decision.

’The Nascent Condensation Pill!’

Although the price of a Nascent Condensation Pill was quite a bit lower than elixirs like the Spiritual Longevity Pill or the Giant Elephant Frenzy Pill, the Spiritual Medicines used to make it were relatively common, making it easy to refine in large quantities.

Setting aside other places, the Tier Three Spiritual Medicines at the Ten Thousand Treasures Tower headquarters alone could probably be combined to form several hundred sets of ingredients for the Nascent Condensation Pill.

As for the other types of elixirs, after the previous two rounds of selection, there were probably only a few sets of ingredients left to find.

If he insisted on pursuing high-value, high-return elixirs, he knew of many such Spirit Level elixirs from the legacy he had inherited. But if there were only enough ingredients for two or three of each type, it was clear that just practicing—even with the Light Card’s assistance—would waste an enormous amount of energy.

After all, learning and accepting new things was very draining.

For example, when Chu Qingyun learned to refine the One Yang Pill and the Spiritual Longevity Pill, he spent a full day and night with the Light Card’s help to successfully refine two or three of them.

But when he simultaneously learned to refine four types of elixirs, including the Violent Yuan Pill, it took him eight days to refine fifteen pills.

Although compared to elixirs like the Spiritual Longevity Pill and the Green Wind Swift Shadow Pill, the production quantity of Nascent Condensation Pills was definitely much higher.

But faced with the massive population of ninth-level Martial Artists, the supply of Nascent Condensation Pills was always far too low. Thus, their price always remained high.

Therefore, Chu Qingyun chose the Nascent Condensation Pill—not easy to refine, but its ingredients were easy to find, its price was decent, and it was one hundred percent guaranteed not to go unsold at auction.

"Qin Ya, have someone find me one hundred sets of Spiritual Medicine for refining Nascent Condensation Pills."

Hearing his words, Qin Ya was so shocked she could barely speak. "O-one hundred sets? Chu Qingyun, are you crazy? The auction starts in five days! Including today, you have six days at most!"

"Don’t worry, I have a plan," Chu Qingyun said with a smile, not explaining further.

Qin Ya stared at him for a moment before sighing helplessly. "Haste makes waste. Just... be careful..." After speaking, she went to find someone to get the Spiritual Medicine for Chu Qingyun.

At that moment, she felt a little regretful. ’If I had known this would happen, I wouldn’t have said so much to Chu Qingyun earlier.’

"Oh, right, while you’re at it, could you ask if the Ten Thousand Treasures Tower has any Thunderlight Stones for sale?" Chu Qingyun added.

In the end, Chu Qingyun spent ten thousand drops of Primordial Spirit Liquid to buy one hundred sets of Spiritual Medicine for refining Nascent Condensation Pills. He then parted ways with Qin Ya and left the Ten Thousand Treasures Tower.

As for the Thunderlight Stone, Qin Ya asked several senior Stewards at the Ten Thousand Treasures Tower, but none of them had ever heard of it.

’An item that even the people at the Ten Thousand Treasures Tower have never heard of... I can probably only buy it at the Great Xia Dragon Guard’s exchange office...’

After returning to the Great Xia Dragon Guard’s station, Chu Qingyun didn’t dare to waste any time and immediately went into seclusion to begin his Alchemy once more.

As the saying goes, "sharpening the axe doesn’t delay the work of chopping wood." This time, Chu Qingyun naturally entered the Light Card Illusion Realm first to practice the Nascent Condensation Pill’s refining process until he was thoroughly proficient.

He even put great effort into increasing his refining speed, perfecting many small details in the process until he reached a Realm where he could guarantee both quality and speed.

After finishing his practice in the Illusion Realm, Chu Qingyun began the actual refining.

He only had five days. Chu Qingyun didn’t dare to waste time, refining one pill after another with almost no pause. Aside from a necessary three to four hours of rest each day, he spent all his time refining Nascent Condensation Pills.

For an ordinary Alchemist, such high-intensity refining would surely exhaust their Soul Power, leading to various problems like a continuously dropping success rate.

Fortunately, Chu Qingyun’s Soul Power was very strong; he had even perfectly passed that senior’s incredibly difficult Array of Cauldrons trial.

Five days of high-intensity Alchemy left Chu Qingyun utterly exhausted.

After he took the last elixir out of the Pill Cauldron, he couldn’t help but lower his head and fall asleep before the sun had even risen.

The next day’s sunlight woke Chu Qingyun.

Having only slept for a couple of hours, Chu Qingyun’s face still looked somewhat weary.

However, looking at the 94 Nascent Condensation Pills laid out on the table, a gratified smile appeared on his face.

From one hundred sets of ingredients, he had refined 94 elixirs—a success rate of over 90%! Even a very senior Spirit Level Alchemist might not be able to achieve such a rate.

And this was after his error rate had risen in the last two days due to mental exhaustion!

He washed his face, rousing his spirits.

Chu Qingyun put all the elixirs into his Storage Ring, went out the door, and prepared to head to the Qin Family’s estate to find Qin Ya.

He had been so focused on Alchemy these past few days, completely ignoring the outside world, that he knew nothing about the arrangements for the auction. He would probably have to go with Qin Ya or Elder Qin.

But as he stepped out of his courtyard, Chu Qingyun’s heart skipped a beat; he felt that something was not right.

This was an auction that only happened once every ten years. Knowing the personalities of Xia He and Xiao Feng, they should have been clamoring about it long ago, pounding on his door first thing in the morning to go with him.

And yet, even now, there was complete silence...