Chapter 298: Chief, I want to learn alchemy.
The time has come to September, running past the middle of the month, and it’s time for another shopping trip to Chisangani.
In the past few days, Qin Ran was urgently teaching Yan Yi what to do with the procurement program.
“Each cultivation level has to be separated, what are the elixirs needed by foundation cultivators, what are the elixirs needed by Jindan cultivators, and what are the elixirs needed by Yuanyin cultivators …… These need to be separated and counted down.
“A new table should also be made for the monthly payments of the outer disciples each month, the inner disciples, and the pro-disciples.
“The lower, middle, and upper grades of each type of elixir also need to be separated because the difference between each grade is enormous, and the difference in their prices is also very large.”
He was already teaching Yan Yi how to make purchase plans and forms by hand.
“The market price of each type of elixir needs to be investigated clearly in advance, and the herbs needed for each type of elixir also need to be clear, as well as the price of each type of herb. This way, we can know how many spirit stones Chi Shen Valley has earned us on each elixir;we can also haggle with Chi Shen Valley in a targeted manner ……”
Qin Ran taught very carefully, almost following the financial statements of the previous life.
This can be bitter Yan Yi, on the one hand, he took over this position for a short period of time, he has not yet figured out which pills are important, which pills are the second most important; as for the composition of the pills and the price of the pills and herbs, he is even more blind, completely ignorant.
On the other hand, he had only just taken over math and had barely gotten the Arabic numerals right these days. Now that Qin Ran was asking him to draw tables and make statistics with them, it was really a bit of an imposition.
Qin Ran was going to teach bar graphs, line graphs, and the like, but he saw that Yan Yi was about to break down, so he had to stop.
He patted Yan Yi’s shoulder and consoled, “There are still several days left, don’t put too much pressure on yourself, just do it slowly.”
“Yes.” Yan Yi answered bitterly.
Although Qin Ran was saying this, what Yan Yi heard was: there are only a few days left, hurry up and do it, be serious, it’s too late!
He couldn’t help but get more nervous.
Seeing this, Qin Ran shook his head and got up to leave.
But before he could walk back to his position, he suddenly remembered something and went back to Yan Yi’s table, his tone was a bit serious as he asked, “I haven’t asked you yet, do you want to go to the September 20 purchase to Chi Ginseng Valley?”
“Huh?” Yan Yi froze, he had taken over this position, wasn’t he going by default? The previous Feng Feiyan went every time until she couldn’t go.
“It’s going, isn’t it?” He replied uncertainly.
“I’m not hiding anything from you, to be honest with you, procuring this matter, is actually very dangerous ……,” said Qin Ran, “a life-threatening kind of thing.”
“Are the robbers rampant now?” Yan Yi asked. He had just killed Feng Feiyan, and he wanted to continue robbing?
“No, the danger is something else.” Qin Ran said.
Yan Yi smartly stopped asking, he knew that there was an inside story, which also involved the reason why Qin Ran cleared the original batch of people from the Palm Pill Hall, it was not something that he should ask about.
He thought about it for a while and said, “If you, Chief, are not afraid of danger, what am I afraid of?”
“Haha ……,” Qin Ran laughed and shook his head, “It’s not the same.
“To go or not to go, your choice. I won’t force you, no need to reply now. Think it over before you say ……”
For those who were recognized by himself, Qin Ran’s patience and kindness was not a little bit better.
Yan Yi sniffed and nodded in silence.
Qin Ran returned to his position, took out his booklet and made a purchasing plan. Waiting for Yan Yi, a novice’s procurement plan naturally won’t work, this time he still has to make a plan with his own hands.
He made plans and counted the spirit stones, and the more he counted, the more his heart ached;the more the plans went on, the more he could find out just how much a sect like Chi Ginseng Valley could earn spirit stones.
For example, one serving of Qi Gathering Pill’s medicinal materials required was around twenty spirit stones, but a single lower-grade Qi Gathering Pill could buy twenty spirit stones, while a single serving of Qi Gathering Pill’s medicinal materials could produce seven or eight Qi Gathering Pills if it was successfully refined.
…… This is still only the lower grade Qi gathering pills.
As he counted, he was really heartbroken and suddenly threw his pen and didn’t count. He sat back in his seat and asked the four deacon disciples under the hall, “You four, do you have any intention of refining pills?”
For these outer disciples, having a gongfu and a few pills was cultivation. As for what path of cultivation to take, it would depend on what gongfu they could get their hands on.
That was why most of the outer sects were sword cultivators and qi cultivators, because these two professions had the lowest starting point and required the least amount of resources.
And there were fewer professions that were extremely resource-eating like any talisman master, alchemist, or formation master.
One of them in particular was the alchemist, although this profession was in high demand in the cultivation world! The resources needed to cultivate an alchemist were massive.
The reason why the Dao Jian Sect’s Dan Peak had fallen was not unrelated to the fact that it couldn’t snatch the resources from Zhi Ginseng Valley.
To summarize, becoming an alchemist was something that these outer disciples didn’t even dare to think about. Then, now Qin Ran asked them if they wanted to learn alchemy ……
Who doesn’t want to learn alchemy?
Especially Chauffeured!
This was what she was waiting for, she had defied all odds to join the Palm Pill Hall just so she could worship under Qin Ran and learn alchemy.
So the first time Qin Ran uttered these words, she voiced out, “Head Seat, I want to learn alchemy!”
As soon as her words came out, there was silence in the Palm Pill Hall, and no one spoke again.
Qin Ran looked at her, this beautiful “grandmother”.
In fact, Zhou Fu’s looks were okay, in the world of cultivators, she was considered a medium looker. Just compared to Qin Ran, the age can be too big ……
Age, of course, never counted for anything in the cultivation world.
“What is your cultivation level?” Qin Ran asked.
“Late stage of foundation building.”
Qin Ran nodded, the Foundation Establishment Stage could refine a series of just-needed elixirs such as Foundation Establishment Pills, Qi Gathering Pills, and Grain Rescue Pills, so there was value in cultivating them.
“Besides medicinal herbs, have you learned alchemy before?” Qin Ran asked again. The previous test questions were mainly about medicinal herbs.
“I will configure my own simple remedies for healing.”
That would mean that he had never refined dan, Qin Ran realized, he then asked, “Know pharmacology?”
Chauffe hesitated, but shook her head.
Qin Ran then pulled out a simple pharmacology book from his Qiankun bag and threw it to her, saying:
“I’ll examine you after I come back from the Chi Ginseng Valley, and if I can pass, I’ll teach you the art of alchemy.”
Zhou Fu received the book, joyful and not self-possessed, it was too eager to bow her head and call her master, but in the end, she had some cheek, and only cupped her fists and salute, saying, “Many thanks to the first seat!”
“What about you guys?”
Wu Yan and Zheng Jie were both silent, not saying yes or no.
Who doesn’t want to learn alchemy?
But they were afraid that there was a fraud in it, which meant that Zhou Fu should go and trip the mine first, and they would wait and see before saying anything.
And Yan Yi stood up, saluted, and said, “I will listen to the arrangements made by the head honcho.”
Qin Ran looked at Wu Yan and Zheng Jie, a hint of a smile on his lips, and didn’t say anything more, only saying, “You two will just talk about it afterward!”
He also said with Yan Yi, “You get the procurement plan done first, and don’t worry about anything else beforehand.”
All three of them saluted and said yes.