Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
“When do I come to work?”
“You don’t need to come to work. I will notify you if there’s anything to do. By the way, leave me your phone number.”
Pei Sefei held her head high proudly and ‘sold’ herself, then triumphantly left Luo Qian’s stronghold like a victorious general.
Luo Qian chuckled. “This silly girl… but she’s also pretty cute.”
There was another knock on the door. The delivery staff from the mall had arrived. There were 20 rice cookers outside. The delivery staff was very curious about what this person wanted so many rice cookers for.
Luo Qian took one look at the rice cooker packaging boxes and exclaimed, “Pei Sefei!”
On the packaging box, a lovely girl smiled beamed like the sun as she held a bowl of fragrant rice in her hand.
The delivery staff said, “Yes, you chose a high-end branded product. This brand of electrical appliances has just invited the recently popular Pei Sefei to endorse their products. They have only just changed the packaging…”
Luo Qian’s was inexplicably confused. It seemed that Pei Sefei had not disappeared after that competition as he had expected. Instead, she had become a big hit. Since she was so famous, why did she come to work as a junior employee for him?
He shook his head and sent the delivery staff off. Luo Qian thought for a while, found a newsstand, and flipped through a few magazines. Of the five magazines, three of them contained Pei Sefei posters. She had multiple looks and demeanors, making her suitable to be a spokesperson for any kind of commodity. Luo Qian became more confused.
Putting aside the things he didn’t understand, he made ten trips between the Human Realm and Immortal Realm before he finished smuggling all 20 rice cookers to the Immortal Realm. With 20 rice cookers in the warehouse, Luo Qian had another problem—he didn’t have enough power.
Money was flowing out like water! This was how Luo Qian felt at that moment. He then ordered ten power supply boxes from Xiao Xiangzi. That was another 30 million Standard Immortal Jade!
The second batch of ten power boxes he ordered had not arrived yet, so Luo Qian could only use ten rice cookers for his experiment. His efforts paid off. After dozens of failures, Luo Qian finally used one portion of Five Immortals Grain, half a portion of Azure Sea Millet, and 1.5 portions of Jade Beans to refine ten Tri-color Elixirs!
He drank the elixir! As a food, it had color, fragrance, and flavor! It was just a pity… For an elixir, the first successful batch of Luo-style stewed rice for lazy people was far inferior to the lower-order Jade Water Elixir in terms of quality and quantity of Immortal aura. It was perhaps equal to Scarlet Pupil Elixirs.
However, among the three raw materials for refining this three-colored pill, Five immortal Grain and Jade Bean were of a higher grade than Azure Sea Millet. Luo Qian pouted, feeling that he had made a transaction that was obviously losing him money. It seemed that the ‘nutrition theory’ of the Human Realm was not applicable in the Immortal Realm. The nutritional value of eating mixed grains was not as good as eating just one certain kind of fine grain. The Tri-color Elixir was proof.
In any case, at least he managed to prove that half of his theory of ‘Luo-style stewed rice for lazy people’ was correct. Luo Qian was still quite happy. If he made a loss, so be it. He was rich now and could afford it. This minor setback would not faze him.
Luo Qian measured out the ingredients for another Tri-color Elixir and threw them into the rice cooker. He plugged in the power source, and it began to gurgle and cook. There were no surprises among the other nine rice cookers, so Luo Qian had to try some other recipes.
Three days later, there was a gray-brown layer of scorched rice on the bottom of the rice cooker, but there was no expected Tri-color Elixir. On the contrary, a new kind of elixir had been made in another rice cooker.
Luo Qian was perplexed. It was obviously still the same formula, so why did it not work? Unwilling to give up, he measured the ingredients again and plugged the rice cooker into a power source again.
He then started to check the rice cooker that had produced a new elixir.
There were ten dark-brown elixirs, shiny and dark like evil spirit eyes. Luo Qian frowned. The Immortal grains in this rice cooker were one portion of Phoenix Eye Millet, one portion of Jade Beans, and two portions of Azure Sea Millet. What had been made?
Luo Qian held up a black pill and looked at it carefully for a while. There was a sudden chill in his heart. Would he die from eating this? Thinking of the horrible rumors about pharmaceutical factories in the Human Realm, Luo Qian was frightened. Why did he feel like one of those black-hearted fake drug dealers now?
“Old Luo, I’m back…”
Luo Qian had not heard Du Lengning’s voice for a long time, but he now needed a strong young man like him and immediately grabbed him. “Quickly, these two Elixirs. Take them and let your uncle appraise them. Are they of any use?” Luo Qian stuffed two elixirs in Du Lengning’s hands.
Du Lengning could not help but smile and teased, “You’re great, Old Luo. I’ve only been gone for less than half a month, yet you developed two new elixirs. We have five kinds of elixirs for sale in our Medicine Hall now. The variety has nearly doubled. We can open for business…”
Luo Qian shoved him and pushed him out. “Go, and come back quickly. I’ll wait for your reply.”
“Okay, don’t worry.” Du Lengning took a step, flew up, and went straight to his Eldest Uncle’s prescription medicine hut.
“Eh—” When Uncle Du saw the two elixirs, his expression became serious. He carefully took the two peculiar elixirs from his nephew, placed them on a jade board, and gently scraped them with a jade knife.
Du Lengning could not contain his impatience and couldn’t help but ask him, “Uncle, how is it? Uncle, how is it?”
Uncle Du was driven to distraction by Du Lengning’s incessant questioning. With a wide wave of his hand, Du Lengning was suddenly in the forest where the Great Wilderness Array outside the prescription medicine hut was. Du Lengning broke out in cold sweat. He knew how powerful the Great Wilderness Array was. Thus, he didn’t dare move even a little bit or make any noise.
Uncle Du took half a day to study the elixirs before finally summoning Du Lengning back. He asked sternly, “Ning’er, where did you get these two pills?”
Du Lengning was a little embarrassed to tell his uncle that he was competing with him for business but still came to him for help appraising the elixirs. He simply stuttered and did not answer; he instead asked, “Uncle, what’s the verdict?”
Uncle Du saw that he was unwilling to answer the question and didn’t force him. “It doesn’t matter if you don’t want to tell me. I’m just a little curious. This elixir is not high-grade. It’s just about the level of a superior elixir.”
“Oh.” Du Lengning was disappointed. Uncle Du continued, “Although the elixir is mediocre, it has strange effects and is very special.”
Du Lengning cocked his ears like a rabbit. “Huh?”
“This Tri-color Elixir can remove poison and dispel blockages. If you suck on one in your mouth, most regular poison mists will not affect you. This dark-brown elixir, although it’s appearance is a little lacking, can increase the accumulation of Immortal aura in the body. Although the effect is slight, over time, the accumulated amount can be quite impressive!
Du Lengning shouted, “Haha, good stuff!”
“It’s indeed a good thing. The reason why I’m curious is because of this. According to my analysis, the level of the elixir maker who made these two elixirs is very low. Otherwise, they will not just be superior elixirs. If…” He glanced at Du Lengning with a meaningful look. He was trying to say that if they were refined by an elixir master like him, the grade of the elixir would naturally be much higher. However, if he said that out loud, it would mean that he had had to eat humble pie and ask the younger man for the recipe. Considering his position, there was no way he could utter such words.
The level of the elixir maker was indeed very low. The fact that he had not even touched the side of a pill furnace before, yet was able to make a superior elixir was already amazing.
Du Lengning didn’t catch the underlying meaning in his uncle’s words. He grabbed the two pills on the jade board and left the prescription medicine hut like a hurricane. He was beyond excited. Flying in the sky, his heart beat so wildly in his chest it felt as if it was about to pop out of his throat. “Hahaha…” A maniacal laugh rang out in the air, scaring the crows!
Uncle Du sighed regretfully and murmured. “This Ning’er… I have been doting on him for nothing.” After smacking his lips, Uncle Du was still a little puzzled. “He’s obviously a beginner elixir maker. Why would he have such an ingenious formula? If I’m right, the raw materials of those two elixirs are extremely common ingredients; that’s why the elixirs had no unique smell. How can such an ingenious formula be in the hands of a novice…”