Chapter 24: Encountering an Old Friend
Jiang Nan walked into Pill King City, only to see the city bustling with people, the stores on both sides of the street were very busy, a wide variety of goods, dazzling people, than the Qi Wang City to be a lot more prosperous.
This is because the Pill King City has the Pill King's House, the Pill King's House of the spirit of the world, thus attracting all directions of the martial arts to converge here, not only have the big valves, and even the Jianwu Kingdom royal family often come to purchase spirit of the spirit of the Dan.
This place was definitely a place where dragons and snakes mixed together, from princes and nobles to robbers and bandits!
"Only thirty percent of my cultivation is left ......"
Jiang Nan walked on the streets of Pill King City, frowning slightly, he fought with the Tongling Mi Ape, and killed Qiao Liang, and ran eight hundred miles with his feet on the river, using up a large amount of true qi, almost no less than having eighty percent of his yang qi siphoned off by Jiang Xue!
This big battle made him lose half of his true qi, and the characteristics of the Demon Prison Xuan Tire Scripture made it impossible for him to recover quickly for the time being, and if he slowly cultivated, he would only be able to recover at most one or two percent of his cultivation before sunrise tomorrow.
As he walked all the way, he only saw that both sides of the streets were like a downtown, with restaurants, hookahs, workshops, and a thousand strange stores selling all sorts of things, not only were there pill stores herb stores weapon stores armor stores, but there were also stores for all sorts of materials, and there were even places selling martial arts mind techniques!
"Pill King City's commerce is really developed, far beyond Qi King City!"
Jiang Nan walked faithfully into a medicinal herb store, an aroma of medicine hit his nose, only to see people coming and going in the store, business was very good. The medicinal herb stores in Pill King City were all run by the Pill King's Palace, with fair prices and fair trade.
"Guest, do you want to buy medicine or see a doctor?"
A store boy greeted him and said with a smile, "If you are looking for a doctor you must please move to the seated doctor's place to have your pulse taken before you can make a diagnosis ......"
Jiang Nan smiled faintly, flipped his palm, only to see a jade bottle appear in his hand, and smiled, "Does your number accept finished elixirs?"
"So mister is an alchemist, disrespectful disrespectful disrespectful disrespectful disrespectful disrespectful disrespectful disrespectful."
That store fellow stood in awe and said, "Sir, please wait for a moment, I'll go and ask the shopkeeper."
Jiang Nan nodded his head, and that store fellow hurriedly ran into the inner hall, after a moment, an old man with white eyebrows and beard walked out of the inner hall, arching his hand and saying, "Sir, can you let the old man take a look at the pills?"
Jiang Nan handed the bottle of Qi Benefiting Dan to the shopkeeper, the shopkeeper opened the jade bottle and poured out a Qi Benefiting Dan, took out a silver needle and carefully inserted it into the elixir, pulled out the needle and observed it for a moment, and said with emotion, "Although it is a Qi Benefiting Dan, the Dan quality is not bad, it even has ten percent of the medicinal power, which is rare and precious! I can't imagine that Mr. young, can refine ten percent of the Dan, respectable and fearful!"
"Old sir is joking, this bottle of Qi Benefiting Pill is a Spiritual Pill given to me by a friend, it is just that it has no use with me, that's why I want to sell it."
Jiang Nan laughed, "Dare I ask old sir, what exactly do you mean by the Dan Pin and Ten Percent Dan you just mentioned?"
"So that's how it is. I said that little brother is so young that he can actually practice the Ten Percent Dan, it's really shocking, so it's a gift from a friend. It makes sense that you don't know my alchemist's lingo."
That shopkeeper laughed, "The grade division of pills then corresponds to the realm of martial arts, for example, Qi Benefiting Pills, Body Nourishing Pills, and God Embracing Pills, these pills are useful for martial arts practitioners within the fifth level of the Body Refining realm, while they are not as effective for martial arts practitioners in the fifth level of the Qi Refining realm, and are therefore low-grade Spirit Pills. On the other hand, the qi refining realm required higher grade elixirs such as the qi replenishing elixir, the fire spirit elixir, and the divine traveling elixir. These three types of elixirs were then many times more expensive than the Qi Benefiting Elixir! Little brother just said that the Qi Replenishing Pill is of no use to you, so you must be a martial arts expert at the Qi Refining realm!"
Speaking here, the shopkeeper couldn't help but respect Jiang Nan, Jiang Nan was not very old, but could cultivate to the realm of Qi Refining, even if he was placed in a family's big valves, he was also considered a rare genius character.
Therefore, even if Jiang Nan was dressed in ordinary clothes, he did not have the slightest intention of underestimating him.
"The Ten Percent Dan is reconciliation again?" Jiang Nan could not help but say.
The shopkeeper laughed, "Little brother doesn't know, spirit pills are not full of spirituality, there are impurities in them as well. The ratio of impurities to spirituality is the percentage, for example, 70% of the Dan, spirituality accounts for 70%, impurities account for 30%, take it down, the impurities are absorbed at the same time, mixed in the true qi or the body, you have to consume the spirit in order to drive out the impurities and refine them, the value is not high. If it is not dispelled, it will accumulate in the body, when this kind of elixir is taken more and more, more and more impurities will accumulate in the body, but instead, it will make the qualification of the martial arts practitioner worse and worse, and even the cultivation level will be limited to the current realm, and will not be able to progress in a lifetime."
Jiang Nan was moved, this shopkeeper said that a gap between lines was like a mountain, and it was indeed true, he had only known that spirit pills could enhance cultivation before, but he had never thought that there were so many doors and paths in them!
"The less impurities in a spirit dan, the higher the value, the impurities in the 90% dan are already not too much of an influence on the qualifications of a martial arts practitioner, so it's very sought after, but the highest value is still the 10% dan!"
That shopkeeper laughed, "Little brother, this bottle of Qi Benefiting Pill you have is the Ten Percent Pill, which is worth a lot. There are twelve pills in this bottle, and at seventy taels of grain silver each, the total is eight hundred and forty taels. If little brother has no objections, I will settle with little brother here."
Jiang Nan nodded, the shopkeeper of this herb store did not desperately suppress the price just because he was an outsider in the line, the Qi King's Mansion had to spend a hundred taels of grain silver to buy a single Spiritual Elixir from the Medicine King's Mansion as well, and although this shopkeeper had suppressed the price, it was not outrageous.
Jiang Nan smiled and said, "Dare I ask if your number has an elixir formula for sale?"
The shopkeeper was stunned at his words and laughed, "Little brother, you want to learn alchemy? Listen to the old man's advice, alchemy doesn't seem to be difficult, but there are countless instructions in it, it's more complicated than martial arts, and the chances of refining it into a Spirit Pill are not very high. Even if you refine a spirit dan, there is a great chance that it will be a waste dan, and there is no shortage of people who may not be able to refine a good dan even if they dump their family's money into it!"
He smiled proudly, "Looking at Jianwu Country, only my Medicine King's Palace can cultivate first-class alchemists! It is often said that dan and martial arts cannot be practiced at the same time, martial arts practitioners who learn to refine pills will instead delay their cultivation progress, my Medicine King's Mansion's alchemists are delayed too much in refining pills, so their martial arts cultivation is not as strong as the other king's mansions."
Jiang Nan also knew that the old shopkeeper did have good intentions, although the Pill King Mansion had all sorts of elixirs and medicines, there had almost never been a great master of martial arts who was the best in the world, and even if someone cultivated into a Divine Wheel by relying on the power of the elixirs, their strength would still be inferior to the other powerful people who had cultivated into a Divine Wheel in a step-by-step manner.
This is because the alchemist delayed too much time, although the spirit pills to enhance the cultivation, but the realm is not stable foundation is not stable, the state of mind also did not get a thousand hammers, the same cultivation but can not play the same strength of the cause.
Jiang Xue had also warned him that using spirit pills to enhance his cultivation was only a trivial way, easily causing unstable foundation, only when his cultivation was troubled could he break through the bottleneck with the help of the medicinal power of spirit pills, practicing on his own was the orthodox and proper way, with a solid foundation, his strength would be more powerful as well.
"Boss, I naturally have a sense of propriety, if I really don't have the qualifications to make pills, I will naturally cultivate honestly."
Jiang Nan laughed, "Old sir will fetch the formula for the Benefiting Qi Dan Nourishing Body Dan and the Encompassing God Dan, and then each Spirit Dan will be paired with ten medicinal herbs each, and settle the bill in one shot."
That shopkeeper also no longer persuade, took out the Dan formula of Nourishing Body Dan, Benefiting Qi Dan and Yun Shen Dan, smiled and said, "My Medicine King House's Dan formula is not hidden, and the price is not expensive, one hundred taels of grain silver a copy, but there are very few people who are able to learn it, so please think twice, little brother."
Jiang Nan accepted the three copies of the formula, only to see that each of the three copies of the formula has a hundred and ten pieces of good rice paper, which is filled with small fly-head characters, densely packed, recorded a variety of medicinal herbs, the amount of medicinal herbs, the time to throw medicine, the size of the fire, the contraindications, as well as the alchemy of the Spirit of the recipe, the heart is quite satisfied.
That shopkeeper also ordered people to allocate ten copies of each of the medicinal herbs, and after settling the bill, handed over more than one hundred taels of silver tickets to Jiang Nan.
"Now that the Dan formula is available, the Dan furnace is still missing."
Jiang Nan was about to walk out of the herb store when he suddenly heard a crisp voice coming from behind him, "World Brother, we meet again!"
"World Brother?"
Jiang Nan was stunned in his heart and looked back, only to see a red-clothed young girl standing behind him playfully, her pretty face overflowing with youthfulness, causing him to instantly remember the encounter by the mountain stream, and laughed, "So it's Sister Yue Shi."
That young girl with her strikingly beautiful appearance, wearing a red dress, appearing to have fair and snowy skin, was none other than the female disciple of the Pill King's Mansion, Yue Ling'er, whom Jiang Nan had met at the Mountain God's Temple.
"County Lord, who is this?"
Next to Yue Ling'er was a slightly rich young man, dressed in luxurious clothes, appearing honorable and extraordinary, swept Jiang Nan for a glance and frowned slightly.
"Mr. Mu, this world brother is the expert who saved me once and killed the Golden Scaled Red Thread Python that I once told you about!"
Yue Ling'er introduced the two of them and smiled, "World Brother, this is Mr. Mu Qinnan Mu, a clan member of the Mu Wangfu."
"Greetings, Brother Mu."
Jiang Nan slightly arched his hand to Yue Ling'er and laughed, "It turns out that Shiyi Sister is also the county princess of the Pill King's Mansion, I'm out of respect."
Yue Ling'er smiled and said, "Shiyi brother, last time you left in a hurry, you haven't asked for your honorable name, this time you can't excuse yourself."
Jiang Nan smiled faintly, "Reporting back to County Lord, my name is Jiang Nan, my word is Zichuan, I come from the Heavenly Condemned Land, County Lord can directly call me Zichuan."
Yue Ling'er was stunned, the land of heavenly rift is a mysterious place, neighboring with Jianwu country, originally is the border of the Middle Kingdom Jinghua country, several years ago, the war of heavenly gods, the waves to there, will be turned into a dead land, no life, Jinghua country destroyed, millions of millions of people fleeing thousands of miles, dead and wounded, can be described as an incomparable tragedy of the holocaust.
Because of this incident, the original rich and prosperous Middle Kingdom has become a place of heaven's wrath.
She originally thought that Jiang Nan came from the Qi Wangfu or Mu Wangfu near the Sunset Cloud Mountain Range, but she did not realize that Jiang Nan actually came from the land of Heaven's Wrath and was a remnant of the Middle Earth.
"Zichuan, why did you come to my Pill King City?" Yue Ling'er changed the topic to avoid Jiang Nan's embarrassment and said with a curious face.
"I came here mainly because I want to buy a few Dan Formulas and try to see if I have any talent in alchemy."
Jiang Nan smiled and responded, although he had been a slave in the Qi King's Mansion, but once upon a time, after all, he was from a large family, a bookish family, and after knowing that Yue Ling'er was the county princess of the Pill King's Mansion, he did not have the slightest bit of consternation, and responded with ease, and although he was slightly shabby in his clothes, his temperament was such that people did not dare to underestimate him.
"You want to learn alchemy?"
Yue Ling'er's eyes lit up as she complained, "Why don't you come to me directly? Could it be that you're still being outgoing with me? I dare not say anything else, but I can help with things like alchemy."
