Chapter 57: Everyone Swindled and Corrupted

If the Ideal Refined Void Pellet was a super Spirit Qi pill…

Why shouldn’t we make an inferior Spirit Qi pill, being the type cooked up from ordinary ingredients?

If it worked out, wouldn’t I be able to cultivate in the modern world too?

Though it sounds difficult, wouldn’t the person before him now be someone who shares this path?!

Lin Fan smiled for an instant then…

Dan Chengzi, however, smiled even more dazzlingly. “This pellet shall be made once I come up with a recipe. Many thanks to your instruction, Your Grace… We shall split the profits from this pellet brand, fifty-fifty.”

“But I wonder, what is the purpose of your visit, Your Grace?”

After all, Dan Chengzi was himself understanding. How could he not give something in return after she provided such profound pointers?

The fifty-percent profit was one, but most importantly, it resolves the other guy’s problem!

“It’s nothing important.”

Lin Fan said neutrally, but from Dan Chengzi’s perspective, the Saintess had reverted to her usual proud coldness and composed form.

“I’ve recently become interested in pellet refining, which is why I came to visit this refinery.”

“I see!”

Dan Chengzi promptly breathed a sigh of relief.

That was it? Was that all there is to it?”

“Dan Chengzi shall immediately prepare the related text, records and experience of my predecessors. Your Grace shall easily understand and grasp the technique of pellet refining…”

“No rush.”

Lin Fan added then. “My cultivation is top priority. Pellet refining is merely a support, for I intend to study new subjects by analogy.”

“As such, you need not provide me with profound pellet refining. It’s best if we began with the basics.”

“For example, how one could use ordinary herbs to develop pellets and pellet recipes that strengthens the body, augments essences and cultivates qi, as well as treat injury and heal sickness.’

“Aside from that, could you prepare me a recipe for that weaker version of a Spirit Qi pill, the one that could be cooked from ordinary herbs?”

In the end, one must work for the benefits received from another person.

Why would Lin Fan instruct Pudgy Dan? Naturally, it was a preparation for this step!

Learning pellet refining?

What use was the high-and-mighty pellets if you taught me to make spirit potions or whatnot? Would Qi Zixiao have to work for any medicinal pellet he wanted?

Naturally, he had to get his hands on the type that could be cooked from ordinary herbs, and he would return to the modern age and research it.

And if he really succeeded in cooking a pellet that could heal all sicknesses, could he not show off in modern cities and make a killing?

The very thought of it was thrilling!

Who knows, he might be able to use those ordinary herbs to produce a weakened version of the Spirit Qi pill. When that happens, would he not be able to begin cultivating in the modern world?

Nonetheless, that was all unknown, and he needs the pellets for answers.

“Medicinal pellets made from normal herbs?”

Dan Chengzi did a double take…

Why would she want that?!

Still, he soon came to a realization. “Dan Chengzi understands!”

“Your Grace must want to study from the basics and learn the essence of pellet refining, hence understanding from analogy…”

“Dan Chengzi could never compare to Your Grace from this fact alone. You are truly noble, please accept my admiration.”

Lin Fan: “…”

This dude really has no integrity.

Still, he nodded despite laughing inwardly. “Could it be done?”

“No problem, but such pellet recipes have not been used, and it might not be available for now. Moreover, our sect lacked ordinary herbs, and would require more time.’

“How long?”

“One day,” Dan Chengzi answered, gesturing that he could produce the pellets and recipes Lin Fan asked for.

It sounded like an exaggeration, but it actually was quite normal.

When it comes to pellets, Dan Chengzi was a true king amongst the junior disciples. How long would he require to come up with a pellet that was less than ‘bronze’?

The reason he needed one day was because there were no ordinary herbs at hand. He did not study the properties of ordinary herbs either, or he would have been done in a minute.

“So, shall I come again tomorrow?”

Lin Fan did not show his pleasure.

“That’s not necessary,” Dan Chengzi said, patting his chest. “When it is done, Dan Chengzi shall personally bring it to the Bright Moon Peak to hand it to you, Your Grace.”

“That works too.”

Lin Fan nodded.

Hence, the matter was decided.

“Please wait until then, Your Grace.”

Dan Chengzi asked Lin Fan to wait again, and promptly began to cook a pellet in the sealed room!

With a tap on the storage sack on his hip, he drew out a pellet cauldron, and kept tossing in various spirit herbs.

“Truly, your lesson is greater than a hundred years-worth of studying.”

“The Spirit Qi pill-version of Ideal Refined Void Pellets shall soon be done.”

Dan Chengzi flattered even as he cooked the pellets.

Even so, Lin Fan knows what this dude has in mind.

Was he not trying to realize the Ideal Refined Void Pellet to the next level while he was here?

But that was fine, Lin Fan nodded subtly.

I am a man for better or worse. How could I live off a woman?!

After Qi Zixiao had earned so much money for me, of course I can’t fall behind in the Sacred Violet Manor, can I? After working with Dan Chengzi and earning a pile of Spirit Stones, how was that not nice?

Was he not earning money in the other person’s world too?

Why wouldn’t I be able to do anything that tigress could?

Of course I must!

***

Meanwhile, outside the sealed room and inside the pellet refinery, most of the prime disciples and personal disciples with rank and status had rushed to the scene.

In fact, the pellet refinery was livelier than it had ever been.

“Did you hear?”

“Save it. Would I be here if I didn’t hear anything?!”

“Wasn’t the Saintess here? Why isn’t she around?”

“Word is that she went to the sealed room with Dan Chengzi and might have already obtained the Refined Void Pellet by now…”

“I might not have reached Divine Separation, let alone Divine Separation-pinnacle, but I have to get an ideal spirit pellet such as that.”

“That’s right? Refined Void, to develop as a divine being and returning to the void… too many people run into bottlenecks at that point, and even the Saintess is stuck there. If I don’t prepare beforehand, who knows how long I would be stuck as well.”

“Still, that Dan Chengzi is quite something to be able to concoct such a pellet… as expected of the top prodigy of pellets in this generation!”

Everyone was in an uproar of discussion, watching the many disciples in the pellet refinery intently.

Therefore, the disciples of the pellet refinery were utterly miserable—not only were their guests unable afford to buy the pellet, the pellet refinery could not afford to provoke those disciples given their statuses. All they could do was put on their smiling faces and offer them cordial hospitality.

Just as the many disciples became impatient, there was a loud tremor echoing out of the sealed room in the pellet refinery.

“What was that?!”

Everyone reacted.

Right after that, a medicinal aroma taunted their noses!

“How sweet!”

“It revitalizes, and the body is relieved from a single sniff. Who could be cooking the pellets?”

“This grade of pellet is truly beyond common sense. Could it be the Ideal Refined Void Pellet?!”

In that moment, the many disciples were craning their necks to look towards the origin of the tremor. It was a shame that they could not see the real thing, but it was certainly a dramatic sight with flashes of light accompanying the medicinal aroma.