The Eternal Pill Shop had been open for over half a month, and Young Master Yuan hadn’t returned to the sect because the distance between the two was quite far—making a round trip in one day simply wasn’t realistic.
Jun Changxiao’s thinking was to settle accounts once a month, which would also allow the medicinal materials to mature and enable them to stock up on brand new pills to sell.
“Sect Master.”
One day, He Wudi came to see him and said: “This disciple has already broken through to Wusheng Great Circle of Perfection.”
“That fast?”
Jun Changxiao’s face immediately showed surprise.
Among the core disciples, Ye Xingchen had only just broken through to Peak Wusheng!
He Wudi, for once being high-profile—not to show off, but to say: “Please grant permission, Sect Master, for this disciple to go out and gain experience through training.”
Many of the martial arts facilities within the sect that were from the lower realm basically couldn’t keep up anymore. Rather than practicing stubbornly in the sect, it was better to go out and seek stimulation.
Actually, Ye Xingchen had the same plan, but because he’d been severely beaten down by Sun Mucheng in Jingshui Town, he decided to first cultivate in seclusion and wait until breaking through to a higher level before going out to train.
“How long?”
“Hard to say.”
“You must be careful about safety when going out.”
Jun Changxiao also knew that the sect had just started in the upper realm, many facilities were basically obsolete, and the pill supply temporarily couldn’t achieve absolute sufficiency, so letting disciples go out for self-training was undoubtedly the best choice.
There were dangers.
But there were also opportunities.
However, Gou Sheng was still somewhat worried, so he said: “Call Xingchen and Zuiji to go together, so you’ll have companions to look after each other on the road.”
“Yes!”
He Wudi left, then found the two of them and told them about going out to train. The response he got was: “Let’s go!”
And so, the three of them left the Eternal Sect and embarked on a marvelous journey without the sect master’s protection.
“Wait a moment!”
Just as they reached the foot of the mountain, a voice came from behind: “This hall master will accompany you.”
Jun Changxiao really wasn’t comfortable with the three going out, so he had Ah Zi follow them. After all, she had lived in the upper realm before and should have decent experience.
Thus, the Brain-Supplementing Trio assembled, with the addition of a scapegoat… shield-bearer Xiao Zuiji.
“Where are you going?” Zilin Demon King said proudly, looking as if no matter where they went, this king could keep them safe, so feel free to go wild with confidence.
He Wudi took out a map, pointed at a marked red dot, and said: “Demon King Den!”
Seeing this, Ye Xingchen and Xiao Zuiji immediately realized that this junior martial brother had planned his training trip in advance.
The Zilin Demon King, who had been looking arrogant and haughty just moments ago, suddenly became serious and said: “That’s one of the extremely dangerous forbidden zones in the upper realm. With your cultivation levels, entering would definitely mean no return.”
“It’s precisely because it’s dangerous that we’re going to train there,” He Wudi said.
“Exactly!”
Ye Xingchen and Xiao Zuiji expressed agreement.
If there wasn’t some danger, it wouldn’t be called going out to train—it’d be called going out to play. Only the more dangerous it is, the more stimulating!
“What’s more,” He Wudi said: “We’ll only train in the outer areas.”
“Alright then.”
Ah Zi, who dared to steal dragon eggs, was definitely not a coward. Since three rookies who hadn’t even reached the Sky-Breaking Realm dared to go, she naturally had to accompany them to the end!
“Let’s go!”
Super exciting background music played, and the four of them left Eternal Immortal Mountain without looking back.
“Sect Master.”
Standing at the mountain gate, Li Qingyang frowned and said: “I always feel like letting them go out to train will lead to danger.”
He had originally wanted to follow along, but the sect master had assigned him a task to fully utilize the undeveloped areas of Eternal Immortal Mountain, so during this time he’d been leading Peppa in surveying the terrain.
“With Hall Master Zi following them, there won’t be any major problems.”
How could Jun Changxiao not know that the upper realm was more dangerous? But since the disciples had come here, they needed to be prepared to encounter dangers, rather than growing up carefree in a greenhouse all the time.
…
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
In the wilderness a thousand miles from the Eternal Sect, powerful demonic energy erupted wantonly, shaking the surrounding flowers, grass, and trees until they trembled. Zilin Demon King, with half her body exposed, stood proudly in place.
Why didn’t she take off her pants? Because the attacking fierce beasts were too weak—while fighting, she’d solved them all just taking off her upper garment.
“…”
Ye Xingchen and the other two had completely broken down.
Boss! We finally encountered targets we could fight against, but before we could even take off our pants, you solved them all. What training are we supposed to do now?!
“Let’s go.”
Zilin Demon King said proudly.
And so, everyone continued their journey.
On the road to Demon King Den, they did encounter quite a few high-realm fierce beasts, but as a result, she knocked them all down while they watched the whole show.
Fine.
The sect master sent Hall Master Zi over not to protect everyone, but deliberately to steal the spotlight!
“Roar!”
“Roar!”
One day, hundreds of fierce beasts comparable to Wusheng level gathered in the wilderness and surrounded Ye Xingchen, He Wudi, and Xiao Zuiji.
This time, Zilin Demon King didn’t enter the battle, standing on a distant rock and saying: “Please begin your performance!”
“…”
We have something inappropriate to say but don’t know if we should say it!
…
One month later.
Young Master Yuan returned to the sect.
“Don’t say anything yet!” Jun Changxiao interrupted. “Let this seat guess how much was earned!”
“…”
Young Master Yuan immediately closed his mouth.
“Ten million?”
“Too little.”
“Twenty million?”
“Too little.”
Jun Changxiao’s face showed puzzlement.
He knew how many pills were in the pill shop, and according to the prices he’d set, even if they sold everything, it would be at most twenty million.
Young Master Yuan smiled and said: “Sect Master, several families from the large cities learned about the effects of our pills and purchased them at double the original price, so the batch of pills that Hall Master Feng refined earned a total of thirty million!”
Jun Changxiao raised his hand to cover his face, making strange laughing sounds of ‘hehe haha keke.’
“Sect Master.”
Young Master Yuan said weakly: “Are you not…”
“Swoosh!”
Suddenly, Jun Changxiao sprang up, stepped one foot on the chair, and loudly sang a brain-washing divine song that exposed his age: “I made money, made money, I don’t even know how to spend it, my left hand bought a Nokia, my right hand bought a Motorola…”
“Pfft—”
Young Master Yuan immediately spat blood and was blasted out of the great hall.
Gou Sheng might still be a rookie in martial arts, but in the musical dao, he could definitely be called a master.
…
The first batch of pills that Feng Guichen refined for the first time had a cost of only a few hundred thousand, but when taken to the Eternal Pill Shop to sell, they actually earned thirty million profound stones. No wonder Jun Changxiao was so excited he broke into song on the spot.
This was just one month of business. As long as the medicinal materials could be constantly supplied, what about one year? Ten years? The wealth accumulated would be unimaginable!
“Got rich, got rich!”
Jun Changxiao remained excited from day to night, from night to dawn, then quickly deployed a brand new plan, making sure to fully supply the pill shop.
Old Wei received the order and actively dispatched members to enter the medicine fields to cultivate medicinal material seeds. Peppa frantically absorbed the undeveloped areas, constructing field after field to increase production.
As the pace suddenly accelerated, Jun Changxiao instead calmly sat in his study and opened the enhanced version of the Spirit Beast Pavilion.
He planned to first use profound stones to hatch one beast egg and see how it went.
“Swoosh!”
He clicked on the Thunder Ling Egg and selected Li Qingyang.
Jun Changxiao had so many contract beasts he’d almost forgotten who they all were, so he planned to first equip his second disciple with one, and later when he had money, he’d give them to Lu Qianqian, Xiao Zuiji, and the others one by one.
Disciple matched, profound stones matched—the hatch button displayed in bright color.
“Huff!”
Jun Changxiao took a deep breath and prayed with clasped hands: “I hope the contract beast that comes out from direct pay-to-win can live up to the Rare Treasure quality!”
“Ding! Beginning hatching!”
“Ten, nine, eight… one!”
“Ding! Thunder Ling Egg successfully hatched, automatically signed contract with disciple Li Qingyang!”
“Damn!”
Jun Changxiao sighed with infinite emotion: “That was really freaking fast!”
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