957: Chapter 956: The Unscrupulous Alchemist (2nd Update) 957: Chapter 956: The Unscrupulous Alchemist (2nd Update) After sending Chu Feixiang away, Ye Haochuan was still enthused and continued walking towards the center of the trading market.
Unlike the dicinal material exchange on the outskirts, the center of this trading market appeared more substantial.
Many people had set up simple stalls here, resembling a rural market fair.
However, what made Ye Haochuan curious was that most of these small stalls were for Pill Refinent services, with only a few selling dicinal materials.
Five Dragons Mountain was rich in resources, with nurous dicinal herbs.
However, many single ingredients were useless unless mixed and refined into pills, thus over ti under the Five Dragons Mountain, many businesses erged to refine pills for others.
Ye Haochuan approached a small stall.
The stall owner was an old man around sixty years of age, leisurely lying on a rattan chair.
He had a cup of tea beside him and held a feather fan in his hand, truly enjoying his ti leisurely.
Upon witnessing Ye Haochuan and his companions arriving, the old man didn’t get up.
He rely lifted his lower eyelids a bit and lazily asked, “Are the three of you here to refine pills?”
“May I ask about your thod of Pill Refinent?” inquired Ye Haochuan curiously.
The old man said, “To refine a type of pill, provide with three complete sets of Pill Refinent materials…”
“Three sets?!” Ye Haochuan was surprised, thinking to himself that this old man was perhaps too greedy!
“Too many?” the old man said, “You can inquire around, providing three sets is the rule here.
Pill Refinent is not guaranteed to succeed one hundred percent; if you only provide one set, we cannot assure you it will definitely be successful.”
“So, if I provide three sets, does it an it will definitely be successful?”
Ye Haochuan was aware that Pill Refinent wasn’t guaranteed to succeed every ti, and that the success rate is per each batch of pills.
For example, if soone has a success rate of fifty percent, it does not an that providing two sets of materials will guarantee success.
The old man sat up, took a sip of tea, and said, “No matter how many sets you provide, we cannot guarantee success; however, if you provide three sets of materials, we will definitely refine the pills you need for you.”
Ye Haochuan smiled and said, “So, it ans even if you have to pay out of your own pocket, you still have to produce the pills, right?”
The old man replied, “That’s exactly it.”
Ye Haochuan curled his lip and said, “If three sets of pills aren’t refined successfully into one, I guess no one would hire you with such a success rate, right?”
“That’s exactly it.”
“Then you guys are indeed greedy, taking three sets of ingredients without counting the paynt.”
“It’s the rule.
If you’re not willing, nobody is forcing you.”
The old man spoke truthfully, albeit a bit harsh; but it was a case of willing buyer, willing seller, and outsiders couldn’t say much.
“Then, how is the paynt calculated?” Ye Haochuan asked further.
“One set of dicinal materials can produce about six pills, and we take half as the paynt.”
“Damn, half!” This was really outrageous!
It looks like those suffering in this business had long ago colluded, forming a monopoly here on the pill refinent livelihood.
“After asking so much, may I know what kind of pill you need to refine?” the old man asked leisurely.
“I was just asking; I’m not refining any pills.”
“Boy, do you think I’m so free?!” The old man got angry imdiately, emitting a fierce aura that was very oppressive.
Zhu Tian hurried to smooth things over, saying, “Esteed elder, we have just arrived at Five Dragons Mountain and still have many dicinal materials to collect.
Once we gather all the materials, we will surely co to you for pill refinent.”
“That’s more like it.” The old man stopped there and lay back on the rattan chair, waving his feather fan towards Ye Haochuan and his group, impatiently saying, “If you’re not refining pills, move aside, don’t hinder my business!”
Damn it, what an attitude!
Don’t you know the custor is always right?
However, since the old man was very strong, Ye Haochuan only dared to grumble inwardly and didn’t dare to voice it out loud.
“Big brother, please help , I really need the Spiritual Ascension Pill, please have rcy.”
At this mont, Ye Haochuan heard a pleading voice coming from nearby.
Turning his head to look, he saw a young man looking pitifully at the stall owner next door.
Is this the sa Guan Ling who gave Ye Haochuan the Blood Land Lotus?
Why does he now look so miserable and dejected, nowhere near as spirited as before.
“If you want to do alchemy, bring out three parts of the materials, otherwise there’s no deal!” The stall owner next door was a bald man, in his forties, and spoke very loudly.
“Big brother, I’m all alone, and after great difficulties, I finally managed to gather one set of materials, I really can’t gather two more sets, please help !” Guan Ling continued to plead.
“If you don’t have it, then scram, don’t act pitiful here!” Baldy’s tone and attitude were very harsh.
Ye Haochuan couldn’t stand it anymore, and stepped forward to help diate: “Big brother, look, he is quite pitiful, collecting three sets of materials on his own is really difficult, he doesn’t even know how many life and death battles he went through to gather this one set, please help him.”
Baldy glanced at Ye Haochuan and said disdainfully, “Rules are rules, you think your few words can change that?
Who do you think you are!”
Ye Haochuan couldn’t stand the attitude, he was just trying to plead on soone’s behalf, was it necessary to mock him like this?
“Hey!
Don’t push your luck!” Ye Haochuan pointed at Baldy, seeing his cultivation wasn’t too high, he dared to challenge him openly.
“The man is not refusing to compensate you, if the materials are insufficient, just take a few more pills!”
“Joke!” Baldy scoffed, “What if it fails, wouldn’t I be at a loss?”
Ye Haochuan said, “Looks like you’re not confident in your skills!”
“Confident or not, none of your damned business, I advise you to piss off, don’t fucking hinder my business!”
That mont, Ye Haochuan got angry: “As the saying goes, the custor is king, aren’t custors your providers?
Is this how you treat your providers?!”
“Fuck, kid, you fucking say that again!” Baldy suddenly jumped out, furious, ready to start a fight, but Guan Ling imdiately stepped forward, apologizing repeatedly.
“Sorry, sorry, it was all my fault, please don’t make it hard on this brother.”
Baldy’s anger subsided a bit, and he waved his hand, “All of you fucking get lost!”
With such a scene unfolding, the alchemists around not only didn’t step forward to help, but instead mocked: “Pfft, without enough materials, what kind of pill can you refine!”
“Probably just a poor sod, can’t afford the materials himself, can only try to find them.”
…
These words were very harsh, and after stopping, the young man’s eyebrows were tightly furrowed, he was very angry but dared not say a word.
“Thank you.” Guan Ling thanked Ye Haochuan, then turned to leave, Ye Haochuan couldn’t bear it, and imdiately called out, “Wait!”
Guan Ling turned back, helplessly said, “No one is willing to help with the alchemy, staying longer will only make a laughingstock.”
Ye Haochuan declared loudly: “If they won’t help, I will!”
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