Chapter 3131 — The Trial Cauldron
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As long as one could manipulate pill fire with skill, a first-grade pill could be refined with one hundred percent success. This cauldron could practically take over the entire first-grade pill market! After all, who would still buy from others when they could refine pills themselves?
Even if the Mystic Pill Sect's first-grade pills were cheap, they still passed through the Cultivator's Guild's hands for resale, and the markup was hardly small. How could that compare to the economy of refining your own? Beyond that, refining your own meant you could make pills whenever you wished, with no worry about being unable to buy them or finding your stock exhausted when an urgent need arose.
"Mr. Ling, what you're describing... is it true?" Vice President Ouyang could hardly be blamed for doubting. Anyone would hesitate to believe such a thing, for it was a little too wondrous—so wondrous that it exceeded the bounds of what an ordinary cultivator could comprehend. Even though Wei Zhao was the one presenting it, and Ouyang did not think Wei Zhao would deceive him, he still had to ask.
"Absolutely true!" Wei Zhao nodded and said, "If Vice President Ouyang does not believe me, find an alchemist and let him test it in person!"
"Very well!" Vice President Ouyang did not refuse; he wanted to witness the marvel of this first-grade automatic cauldron for himself. He took out his phone and dialed the number of the disciple who had been at the door earlier. "Xiao Duo, call Xiao Kong and tell him to come to my private room at once!"
The Xiao Kong Vice President Ouyang spoke of was a pill inspector at the Cultivator's Guild's market. Pill inspectors were disciples who had studied alchemy and studied it well, but because they lacked a wood attribute within their bodies, they could not become alchemists. Serving as a pill inspector was no problem for them, however.
An inspector needed only to judge the quality of a pill, and Xiao Kong was the inspector under Vice President Ouyang's command.
Soon a knock came at the door of the private room. Vice President Ouyang said, "Come in," and a somewhat thin young man walked in and said respectfully, "Vice President Ouyang, your disciple has arrived. May I ask what business you have with me?"
"Business there naturally is. I want you to test something!" Vice President Ouyang said. "Mr. Ling, please explain to Xiao Kong how this thing is used."
"Certainly." Wei Zhao nodded and, pointing at the first-grade automatic cauldron before him, said to Xiao Kong, "This is a first-grade cauldron, but its function is automatic pill refinement!"
"Automatic pill refinement?" Xiao Kong's eyes went wide. He stared in disbelief at the spot Wei Zhao indicated, scarcely trusting his ears. "Mr. Ling, did I hear you right? A cauldron that can refine pills automatically?"
"You heard right!" Wei Zhao smiled slightly and said, "Though this cauldron is called automatic, it does not mean pills can be refined with no human intervention at all. Rather, certain steps of the process are rendered automatic, which increases the success rate..."
With that, Wei Zhao explained the operation of the first-grade automatic cauldron to Xiao Kong. Since Xiao Kong's original trade was alchemy, he understood Wei Zhao's meaning at once, and a gleam of eager anticipation flashed through his eyes.
It was precisely because his body lacked the wood attribute that he had become an inspector. After all, lacking the wood attribute meant that no matter how skilled one was at manipulating pill fire, refining pills was a matter of sheer luck, for one could not sense the changes in the pill within the cauldron.