Lin Qinghen quickly returned to the task interface, and indeed he received task two.
"The Alchemist System is at your service. Congratulations on completing the first novice mission. You have automatically been assigned the second novice mission."
"Task 2: Alchemist, a profession that costs a lot of money."
“Requirement: Sell products to increase personal disposable wealth to 100,000 Ling Baht (currently: 0 Ling Baht).”
"Reward: 2 points of natural affinity, 1/4 of a detoxification pill."
"Good luck on your mission."
For Lin Qinghen, this second task still contains a lot of information.
He had a rough idea of the concept behind the novice stage for alchemists, which were probably the aspects that alchemists needed to pay most attention to during their training.
The system is like a career planner, quantifying the goals and processes and pushing him forward step by step.
The round wheat alienation rate represents the raw materials, so its importance is self-evident. Apart from raw materials, money is definitely the most important thing that alchemists need to care about.
The description of the mission as a "money-burning profession" is indeed not wrong. The growth of any talent requires repeated practice, and the expensive raw materials for alchemy are consumables for alchemists.
Lingzhu is the unit of currency here. Due to the abundance of resources, some basic survival resources are very cheap in the spiritual world. But things with spiritual energy are different, especially those that can be used to refine medicine.
Taking the round wheat planted by Lin Qinghen as an example, a basket of ordinary round wheat can only be sold for 10 spirit baht, but the price of alienated round wheat is calculated in "liang", about 15 spirit baht per liang. An ordinary alienated red round wheat plant can generally yield 2 to 3 jin. In other words, one plant can be worth more than 300 spirit baht, which is equivalent to the value of an acre of ordinary round wheat.
This is just the price of the raw materials, plus the medicinal base. Even for a low-star alchemist, the cost of making a furnace of pills is not low, and the cost will double if it goes up.
The materials for a yellow-grade three-star elixir can be obtained with a few hundred spirit baht, but when it comes to the black grade, the cost of buying any raw materials starts at tens of thousands. Although the profits after refining the elixir are considerable, there is a failure rate during the refining process for the alchemist.
The higher you go in your practice, the higher the failure rate becomes when you seek a breakthrough, especially in the bottleneck stage of level breakthrough. Many alchemists have a failure rate of over 95% when trying to upgrade their alchemy, and a large amount of materials are wasted, which of course is very expensive.
From this point of view, the system he was bound to was indeed a bug. Although the pills he could refine were not as rich as those of others, and currently there was only one basic hemostatic powder, the system had no failure rate, which was already a great advantage.
Although the statement that one currently possesses 0 spiritual energy is also true in the human world, it is also very hurtful and insulting.
Before yesterday, Lin Qinghen had never thought that he could become an alchemist. He really had no money and was a poor guy.
Theoretically speaking, as the young master of the Lin family, he should have received monthly allowance, which was just like the pocket money given by his family.
In fact, he had not seen this money since he came here. It should have stopped after his talent was tested at the age of three. He didn't know if it was embezzled by someone. Anyway, given Lin Qinghen's situation, he had no way of tracking down where the money went.
The Lin family really didn't like him, and most of the time they basically treated him as if he didn't exist.
The reason why Lin Qinghen hadn't thought about making money before was mainly because he seldom went out and had never thought about saving some money and running away.
In the spiritual world, where force is respected, the outside world is not peaceful. Even if a weakling like him leaves the Lin family, he can't leave the city of Dongtianfu. Not to mention whether he will be stabbed by someone, even some spiritual plants and spiritual beasts are aggressive, and he can easily die.
So even though the treatment in the Lin family was not good, at least his life security was better than outside. Even if he had to hide and live a low-key life every day, he had no plans to leave in the short term.
Under this living condition, he had to take care of his own food and drink every day, and he didn't need to spend any money to do research in his own fields, as Yu Yinyin could provide him with many materials.
So, Lin Qinghen really didn't have a penny. He had always been simple and had no money to spend.
100,000 Lingzhu should not be a big problem for other young masters of the Lin family. They can always scrape together the money. But for Lin Qinghen, it is a huge sum of money that he cannot even touch.
Putting aside the mission requirements that urged him to get rich quickly, the mission reward was also very informative.
In addition to the natural affinity he had seen before, Lin Qinghen always felt that this thing was not as simple as just adding bonuses to elixirs; what attracted his attention the most was naturally the "quarter of a detoxification tablet".
Detoxification tablets? For whom
Me
Moreover, they only give one quarter at a time instead of the whole amount. What a cunning system.
Lin Qinghen complained, but his heart was actually a little serious. He reached out and took off the soft leather mask he was wearing and touched his face.
Although he had gotten used to the ugly "birthmark" on his face, he always felt that it was not as simple as a birthmark.
Lin Qinghen's training process has always been difficult, but after reading the information, he found that even a person with poor talent would not be as weak as himself.
If Lin Qinghen cultivated his spiritual power for a little longer in a day, or was exposed to cold or heat, or even exerted too much strength, his bones would begin to ache. The pain would be strongest on his face. The birthmark that covered almost his entire face would hurt even more, like a burning sensation or a needle prick.
Therefore, no matter how hard Lin Qinghen tried, his cultivation speed could only be this slow.
Yu Yinyin had told him that if he cultivated to the Xuan level, some unconventional elixirs could have the effect of removing scars and birthmarks on his face, but Lin Qinghen's spiritual power was too low and his physique was poor. He could not withstand the effects of those elixirs, and some techniques were even more difficult for him to withstand. By that time, not to mention whether his face would be in good condition, he would explode and die first.
Because of this, Yu Yinyin couldn't use any spiritual techniques on him to determine what the "birthmark" on his face was.
From current observations, we can only tell that this is probably because his mother was unstable during pregnancy, with chaotic aura and mixed spiritual energy. The birthmark on his face is actually the same as his extremely poor talent, a kind of "scar" or "deficiency" brought on by nature.
The birthmark is external, and the extremely poor talent is the internal reason, which can also explain why he feels pain when he practices too much.
With Lin Qinghen's current training speed, it would be difficult for him to have enough strength to withstand the test of some spiritual arts in this lifetime.
He had also seen in his own memory that the original owner, who had a decent living standard before the age of three, had received some mild healing spiritual arts, but naturally there was no effect.
Even now that he was bound to this system, his own talents had not improved.
He had already accepted his fate. One cannot be good at everything, and it was good enough to have a way to survive.
But if the detoxification tablet given by the system is for his own use, it means that his birthmark and extremely poor physical condition might really be caused by poison as he guessed.
This means that it is a disease that can be cured.
Having missed out on more than a decade of training and having no marrow, Lin Qinghen knew that even if he was cured, he probably wouldn't become a powerful spiritual master, but if he could really detoxify, he would at least have a normal body.
He couldn't help but feel overwhelmed.
As long as he works hard enough, all this bad luck can be changed.
Life will slowly get better.
During the time that Lin Qinghen was thinking about it, the half hour of making the pill passed quickly.
The grass pattern on his wrist grew a little hot, as if reminding him.
Lin Qinghen opened the interface and saw the small medicine furnace in the upper right corner flashing with golden light, indicating that it could be collected.
He poked it, and a fat, round wooden bottle appeared out of thin air in his hand.
Lin Qinghen opened the bottle stopper. The hemostatic powder inside was still warm and gave off a faint medicinal fragrance.
This basic medicine has a wide range of applications. It can be taken orally or ground into powder for external application. He counted them and found there were 21 pills in total. He took one out and studied it carefully.
The system states that the quality of the pills is affected by the raw materials.
Lin Qinghen used his own alienated round wheat, which was a variety he had improved. The spiritual energy it contained was much higher than ordinary ones, which was reflected in the quality of the pills. In theory, the hemostatic powder produced by the system should be better than those on the market.
Lin Qinghen felt, just by physical sensation, that this pill seemed to have a higher concentration of spiritual energy than the yellow-grade three-star hemostatic powder prepared in the plantation.
But he was not an expert in judging the concentration and grade of spiritual plants and elixirs, and he had no equipment with him, so he had to test the quality.
Lin Qinghen was a weakling, but he wasn't stupid enough to cut himself just to test the medicine - he caught a chicken in the garden.
The result was gratifying. The unfortunate chicken was alive and kicking, and seemed to be even more lively than before.
As long as the quality of the pills is good, it is an obvious way to make money.
Although the number of earning 100,000 seems high, Lin Qinghen thought about it and realized that he could grow the round wheat himself, and he also had the agricultural machinery he had improved, so he could barely complete the cultivation of the raw materials by himself.
He couldn't keep asking Yu Yinyin for low-level medicinal bases, as this wasn't an alchemy shop after all. But these things were very common on the market, and with the money he earned from selling the pills, he could definitely afford the cost.
Compared with other alchemists, he has saved a lot of risks and costs. If he works harder, it should not be difficult for him to earn this money.
So Lin Qinghen was also very busy today.
He made a strict plan for himself, organized and preserved his previous research results, and began large-scale breeding and seedling cultivation using the latest round wheat varieties, and he did not finish his work until the evening.
Taking advantage of the night, Lin Qinghen ran to Yu Yinyin again, said hello to his master, and went to the warehouse to get the remaining ten or so doses of medicinal base that he needed.
Yu Yinyin still had that cold expression on her face, half lying on the chaise longue and smoking her long pipe. No matter what Lin Qinghen said to her, she just raised her eyes and let him do as he pleased.
It would take nine and a half hours to make the hemostatic powder using the materials he already had, and he would be able to harvest it the next morning.
After finishing all these, he returned to his own small yard.
It seems that Lin Shushu's return has indeed had a great impact on Lin Fei. He really has no time to find fault with him these two days. Lin Qinghen's yard is still in good condition. It is not like before, when it was smashed to vent anger because he couldn't find anyone.
There have been so many good things happening recently!
Lin Qinghen came back not just to take a nap. He found a place to climb over the wall and threw a small stone into the next yard.
The yard next door was where the farmers lived. To be more precise, this remote area was where the servants lived. Lin Qinghen was driven here from home.
After a while, someone came out following the sound.
"Master Qinghen!" The person who came out was Seventeen. Seeing him, he waved to him excitedly and asked with concern, "I heard that you fell down. Are you okay now?"
"Much better!" Lin Qinghen made a trumpet shape with his hands and replied, "Shiqi, I want to go out tomorrow and buy some things in the city. Can you take me with you?"
There is no martial law at the Lin family's home, and people inside can always come in and out freely. No matter how bad Lin Qinghen's situation is, he has the Lin family badge, which is a kind of certificate. He just needs to show it to the guards when entering or leaving.
But this area is too large, and Lin Qinghen has no means of transportation, so he has to find someone to help him.
At the young age of seventeen, he did the dirty and tiring work that no one else wanted to do in the plantation. One of his main jobs was driving the garbage truck that went out every three days in the plantation.
A garbage truck is also a car, it's enough if it can help give you a ride.
He planned to wait until the first batch of hemostatic agents came out tomorrow, and then he could take them out to check out the market.
Come to think of it, he hasn't left the Lin family for several years.
"Okay," Seventeen agreed without hesitation. He was a carefree person and didn't ask any more questions. "Then I'll call you when we leave tomorrow!"