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Treasure Bottle Alchemy Room.
Chen Mobai looked at the sign on the door, pulled out the access card given to him by Qing Nu, and the doorman let him in after a quick swipe.
“You’re just in ti, this is the successfully blended spiritual water. All you have to do is pour it into its packaging.”
As one of the top pharmacies in Red Sandstone City, the rented Treasure Bottle Alchemy Room was fully equipped. Dressed in a white lab coat, Qing Nu handed a kettle of standard Qi-replenishing Spirit Water to Chen Mobai and pointed to a dozen glass tubes plugged into slots on the table nearby.
“What about the rest?”
Chen Mobai placed the three large bags of dicinal herbs he was holding onto the table, grabbed the spout pot to start packaging, and looked at the remaining half of the dicinal liquid that had been separated in the pool.
“These original liquids exceed the standard for pill poison content. After collection, they need to be put into special packaging bags. Before you leave, give them to the recycling officer of the Treasure Bottle Pharmacy. They’ll take care of their disposal.”
As she spoke, Qing Nu took a rolled-up plastic bag from a cabinet on the wall. With a bit of spiritual power injected, it imdiately inflated and turned into a square packaging bag.
“You’ve improved, there are 20 tubes this ti.”
Chen Mobai steadily poured the diluted spiritual water from the spout pot into the standard glass tubes. Then, he stopped up the tube orifices, sealing them.
“The equipnt in this alchemy room is better than what my old master used. Plus, I have practical experience now. I would definitely have improved. If I wasn’t unfamiliar with this alchemy room, there would have been 25 tubes, nearly a 50% success rate.”
As she spoke, Qing Nu had already packaged the original liquid that didn’t et the standard and put it into a trash bin marked “poison”.
“Is this the next batch of dicinal herbs? Let take a look.”
Saying so, Qing Nu opened up the main dicinal herbs that Chen Mobai had brought over from Tianhe Realm, took a whiff, and her eyes lit up.
“The age and dicinal properties of these herbs are more substantial than the ones we bought online the last two tis. We might be able to yield 30 tubes in the next refinent.”
Hearing her words, Chen Mobai also smiled. He had been afraid that items from the Tianhe Realm might not et the criteria here.
“However, these herbs have been preserved poorly, so of the dicinal properties have already vanished. They need to be used up quickly.”
After confirming all three types of dicinal herbs, Qing Nu gave Chen Mobai so less-than-uplifting news.
This was expected, after all, in Dihuan Star, the alchemy techniques have reached an apex, and there are classified preservation thods for different properties of dicinal herbs. So even have specifically designed dicine warehouses set at different temperatures just to best preserve the dicinal properties.
However, in the Tianhe Realm, the best-case scenario they have is likely just dry, ventilated, and cool storage. If over half the dicinal properties can be preserved, it’s already the result of the cultivators’ hard work.
“By the way, how does your master usually charge the Treasure Bottle Pharmacy for selling these bottles of Qi-replenishing Spirit Water?”
Chen Mobai asked. Recently, he was planning to buy a strong amulet to break through the Ren Water Thunder thod inside the Water Mansion, but he was short on Good Deed Points.
“My master only charges a processing fee. The party providing the dicinal herbs pays for them. Regardless of the final production rate, he charges 1000 Good Deed Points per processing session.”
“1000 per session, that’s easy money.”
Upon hearing Chen Mobai’s words, Qing Nu pulled out a calculator and did so math for him.
“Treasure Bottle Pharmacy has its own dicinal fields and factories, and the cost of the main and auxiliary dicinal herbs add up to around 2000 points at most.”
“My master crafts rank-1, interdiate grade Qi-replenishing Spirit Water with 95% or more success rate each ti, handing over 40 tubes to them. With the market price of 200 Good Deed Points per tube, they can sell them for a total of 8000 points.”
“Minus the looo-point processing fee, the 2000-point material cost, and a bit of costs for other channels, Treasure Bottle Pharmacy makes at least 4000 points in profit per processing session.”
After hearing all this, Chen Mobai couldn’t help but sigh, “Selling dicine really is profitable.”
“However, we also can’t ignore the cost of maintaining such a large scale operation for Treasure Bottle Pharmacy, or the salary costs at the dicinal fields and factories. But regardless, selling dicine is acknowledged as the easiest way to get rich in the Immortal World.”
In the four disciplines of the Immortal World – Technique, Pill, Instrunt, Array-
The talismans representing spells only sell well if they are for daily life. As the barriers of entry are low and competition is high, the profit margin is usually slim.
It’s the sa for magic artifacts, those used for combat generally don’t sell well. Only kitchen tools, airships, cars, and these sorts of transportation tools allow one to make money.
Formations are even higher-end products. Most are custom-made private orders for entire houses. Branding is vital there, and very few manufacturers tackle this field.
Only in the domain of dicinal pills is the industry exceedingly mature. Everyone needs them when cultivating and progressing, but the barriers to entry are strictly monitored by the Immortal World, raising the standards constantly. After thousands of years of internal competition, six large-scale pharmaceutical institutions, including Treasure Bottle Pharmacy, erged.
These large-scale pharmaceutical companies are practically monopolies. If not for the Immortal World’s strict control on prices, ordinary cultivators like Chen Mobai might not be able to afford them even if they managed to secure so.
“It’s a sha that they’re not refining Qi-replenishing Spirit Water for the Treasure Bottle Pharmacy. Otherwise, they would provide ‘Spiritual Extracts,’ which could help ensure a success rate of over 80% each ti.”
Looking at the original liquid in the trash bin waiting to be discarded, Qing Nu couldn’t help but sigh.
“Spiritual Extract? What’s that? Is it a type of auxiliary dicinal herb?”
Chen Mobai asked.
“Yes, sothing like that. It’s an auxiliary herb that large pharmacies use specifically for filtering pill poison. The reason my master has a success rate of over 95% every ti is not only due to her superb skills but also because of the ‘Spiritual Extract’ provided by the Treasure Bottle Pharmacy.”
“Can you buy ‘Spiritual Extract’?”
“You’re making it sound simpler than it actually is. That ‘Spiritual Extract’ is precisely why these large-scale pharmaceutical firms stand out amidst the fierce competition in the Immortal World’s marketplace. Any ordinary pharmacy, despite having a rank-4 alchemist, wouldn’t last long in the competitive pharmaceutical industry due to the lack of ‘Spiritual Extract’.”
Chen Mobai thought about all the alchemists in the Immortal World. These alchemists usually join one of the six major pharmaceutical firms to better their opportunities in the end.
“So, this ‘Spiritual Extract’ is only available in the six major pharmaceutical firms?”
“Not necessarily, ‘Spiritual Extract’ is obtained by ground-up spiritual stones that have been drained of their spiritual energy. It can be collected from various channels, but only the six major pharmaceutical firms, supported by either the Immortal World or one of the four Daoist Academies, have a vast reserve of spiritual stones.”
Upon hearing this, Chen Mobai was taken aback.
“What did you say?”
“What?”
“Spiritual Extract is crushed spiritual stones that have been drained of their spiritual energy?! That thing can be reused like that?!”
Chen Mobai was once again moved to tears by the thriftiness of Dihuan Star’s cultivators..
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