Windless Canyon, Bailuogou.
This is a beautiful valley with a small mouth and a big belly, shaped like a conch, and is thirty to fifty miles long. Because the valley is covered with white snake-head flowers, which are in full bloom all year round and are as white as snow, the whole valley is covered in crystal-white, hence the name Bailuogou.
The snakehead flower tree is a relatively precious medicinal tree. It can clear away heat, remove toxins, dredge meridians and blood vessels, and purify the internal organs. It has a great tonic effect on monks who are in the realm of peace and destiny. In the past, there was often no wind in Bailuogou. The canyon is haunted by herb collectors.
But since the alchemy master Zhu Fuzi fell in love with Bailuogou six hundred years ago and built a house here, Bailuogou has become Fuzi Zhu's private territory, and ordinary people dare not get close.
The fragrance of medicine bursts, the smoke is thick, deep in Bailuogou, beside a fast and clear stream, Mr. Zhu, who is short in stature, has a huge forehead, and has a bare scalp with no hair left, is squatting on a large floor with a frown on his face. On the stone, I stared blankly at a few small fish in the stream.
"This recipe... what's the difference? Hey, if there is something wrong with the recipe, it shouldn't be. In the past one hundred furnaces, two were successful! But if the recipe is intact, why are the other ninety-eight furnaces successful? All destroyed?”
"Scare, it's cheap but not good. These damn locals, from which dead man's grave did they take this recipe?"
"But looking at this secret text, it is indeed an ancient elixir prescription. Those local masters are used to making fakes, and they can't make such ancient things."
"The power of this elixir is so strong! One elixir can increase the body's twenty dragon power. Of course, you can only take nine pills at most, one hundred and eighty dragon power. Tsk tsk. For the sake of the younger members of the clan, the heads of the family, and the elders. , why don’t you break your head to grab it?”
"But the cost... is a hundred furnaces! Haha, my heart... hurts so much!"
Master Zhu grinned and sighed, and shook his head with a deep look: "No, the price will have to be raised. The materials for the ninety-eight furnaces of waste pills are just that. The three exploded high-grade pill furnaces, each pill The cost of the furnace exceeds 30 million spiritual crystals...the price will have to increase, and even the most common Bigu Pill will have to increase by 30%!"
He took out a piece of blue mushroom from his sleeve, carefully broke off a piece of mushroom, and with a little finger, the mushroom fragments turned into wisps of blue cold mist, slowly seeping into Master Juan's skin.
Master Zhu's body trembled slightly for a while, and a layer of white hairy cold sweat oozed out on his forehead, which soon turned into wisps of heat and dissipated.
"The fire poison in the body is also a trouble, hum, hum!" Master Zhu carefully stuffed the mushroom back into his sleeve, grabbed a strand of beard as thick as a thumb on his chin and pulled hard, his eyes rolling like "jirgulu" Quickly: "The price of this deep-sea blue ice mushroom is getting higher and higher. It is not easy to purchase. What if the supply is out of stock? What should I do with this fire poison?"
"You have to stock up on a batch, but it's expensive. This money... you have to find a way to get it."
With a heavy sigh, Master Zhu shook his head: "Being an alchemist is so difficult!"
The sound of light footsteps came, and a young woman with a beautiful face and picturesque features, wearing a light blue dress, walked over quickly, smiled lightly and saluted Master Juan: "Master!"
Master Zhu extended his hand to the woman: "Is it the price I said?"
The young woman nodded vigorously and said with a light smile: "Of course it's according to the master's price. Hey, after visiting these spiritual places around Wufeng Canyon several times, you are the only one who can refine the 'Big Yellow Pill'. Of course it's you." Whatever the price is, that’s the price!”
Smiling triumphantly, the woman took out a bracelet and put it into Master Juan's hand.
Master Zhu took the bracelet, pointed his finger, and a spiritual light flooded the bracelet. He quickly counted the number of spiritual crystals in the bracelet, and then nodded vigorously: "Well, I hope all the family heads can understand, the way of alchemy... It’s not easy to walk... the price has increased... I’m forced to have no choice!”
Sliding the bracelet into his sleeve, Master Zhu pinched his fingers and started to make signs.
"Look, to refine the rhubarb pill, it takes an average of three furnaces for a teacher to produce a good furnace of elixir. The cost of those two furnaces must be added, right?"
"When refining the elixir, all the disciples who are my masters also have to run back and forth, trying their best to assist. Not to mention the effort expended, how much physical exertion is there? How much of your cultivation efforts will be delayed?"
"Not to mention, in order to better benefit all living beings in Windless Canyon, my teacher researches various elixirs. How much does it cost to verify these elixirs every year?"
"The cost of the medicinal materials is just that. Every once in a while, I explode an alchemy furnace for my master... I'm scared, the price of the alchemy furnace is rising all the way, and the price is getting more and more expensive! Don't say that you senior brothers and sisters were killed when the furnace exploded. My whole body was covered with wounds from the explosion, do I have to pay for the soup and medicine?"
With a heavy sigh, Master Zhu sighed in a low voice: "So, I have heard some rumors recently. Those people said that I am greedy and excessive. But if I were not greedy, I am afraid that I would not even be able to survive." It can’t be sustained!”
The young woman rolled her beautiful eyes and snorted coldly: "Master, don't be angry with those idiots. In short, you have so many unique elixirs. If they think they are too expensive, just don't buy them! Neither do we." Force them to buy it!"
Master Zhu laughed. He grabbed one of the young woman's hands, put it between his hands and stroked it gently: "That makes sense, that makes sense. Du Juan, you are the smartest. They think it's too expensive, so don't worry. Buy, I didn’t force them as a teacher.”
The young woman Du Juan smiled "hee hee" and was about to speak when another young woman as beautiful as a flower walked over quickly.
Because she was walking in such a hurry, the woman's face was slightly red, and a few drops of sweat could be seen faintly on her forehead. She quickly ran up to Master Juan, her eyes quickly glanced at Master Juan's and Du Juan's hands, and she said hastily: "Master Ah, Windless Canyon, another alchemist named Hu Xiaotian has arrived! Hey, he’s a pretty pretty boy!"
Du Juan rolled her beautiful eyes and smiled softly: "Senior Sister Haitang, why are you in such a hurry? My handsome pretty face makes you so... distracted? Hehe, what about alchemists? There are quite a few in Windless Canyon, but How can they compare to the master's skills?"
Master Zhu smiled, patted Du Juan's little hand helpfully, and said gently to Haitang: "Haitang, don't be in a hurry, tell me slowly, what ability does the new Hu Xiaotian have? He makes you so out of breath. Fat?"
Haitang narrowed her beautiful eyes and said very quickly and nervously: "That Hu Xiaotian, just sold a bottle of twelve thousand-year pills to Hu Qianshan of the Hu family and Guan Linsen of the Guan family, all of which are low-grade spiritual crystals. 1.2 billion, both families paid with high-grade spiritual crystals, a total of... 12 million miles!"
"Scared!" Master Zhu jumped up and his face became extremely ugly: "This kid, dare to ruin the market like this? This price is too low!"