Chapter 2585 — Double It
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"Oh. Well, since that's how it is, there's nothing more to discuss," Wei Zhao said.
"Don't be like that—look, name any other terms you want. As long as it's not finished third-grade pills or a third-grade cauldron, you can ask for whatever you like!" You Panhu was frantic, and hurried to block Wei Zhao's way.
"I really don't need much of anything else… Isn't this just forcing a sale on me?" Wei Zhao looked at You Panhu with some displeasure.
"It's not forcing a sale—I'm just asking you to name your price!" You Panhu said.
"Tell you what. Double the terms you're offering, and we have a deal. Otherwise, forget it," Wei Zhao said.
"What? Double it?" You Panhu was startled.
"Even doubled, I'm still taking a loss. Of everything you're putting up, only the two second-grade cauldrons are actually useful—the rest of the hidden You family's hoard is worthless to me," Wei Zhao said, curling his lip.
"Then let me ask my grandfather first…" You Panhu thought it over and had to admit the man had a point. A third-grade cauldron and third-grade pill ingredients were of no use sitting in the hidden You family's stores—his grandfather was only a second-grade alchemist and couldn't refine third-grade pills at all. "For the third-grade pill ingredients, what do you want?"
"Three portions of the Great Return Pill, three portions of the Ice Heart Jade Bone Pill, and four portions of the Qi Gathering Pill," Wei Zhao said.
"Ice Heart Jade Bone Pill? What's that?" You Panhu was briefly taken aback. He had heard of the Great Return Pill and the Qi Gathering Pill, but the Ice Heart Jade Bone Pill was entirely new to him. He was an alchemist himself, but pill recipes were countless in number; aside from the common ones he knew, there was no way he could be familiar with every obscure formula.
The Ice Heart Jade Bone Pill in particular was a highly specialized pill he had never encountered, so it was only natural he wouldn't know it.
"Oh, I'll give you the formula—just take it home and prepare it yourself," Wei Zhao said. The Ice Heart Jade Bone Pill was in fact only useful to people like Little Miss Bingtang; it did little for anyone else, so there was no harm in letting the formula circulate. Even if the You family got their hands on it, they couldn't turn it into money.
"Fine." You Panhu nodded and had Wei Zhao write down the formula.
In truth, apart from the two second-grade cauldrons, the rest of the terms struck You Panhu as no great problem. Third-grade cauldrons and third-grade pill ingredients were precious, but the pity was that almost no one could use them. The pill ingredients were at least somewhat useful; the third-grade cauldron materials were utterly worthless—neither meat nor bone.
Even if the third-grade pill ingredients were useful, only the founding ancestor of the Mystic Pill Sect could use them to refine pills—and how many times a year could that ancestor refine third-grade pills? Naturally, the ingredients piled up while the pills remained scarce.
You Panhu took Wei Zhao's formula and turned to leave the classroom to seek permission, while Wei Zhao sat down in front of Han Jingyi, beside Wang Xinyan.
"All sorted out?" Wang Xinyan waited until Wei Zhao and You Panhu had finished talking before she asked.
"Mm, it's fine now." Wei Zhao nodded. He had been busy since yesterday, and everything on his plate had piled up. He had originally meant to study the hidden Zhuang family's combined-strike mental technique when he came to school today, but he had rushed out first thing in the morning and never got the chance to look at the Zhuang family's mental-technique mnemonic.
If that mental technique could truly be put to use, then Han Jingyi refining third-grade pills would be no dream.