Chapter 3218 — The Artificer and the Cauldron
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Of course, the most important thing was that after all these back-and-forth commercial battles, the market demand for the first-rank automatic pill cauldron had already reached a state of extreme saturation. The gusher-style sales of before no longer existed.
Unless a sect took on new alchemist apprentices, or someone accidentally broke their cauldron, basically no one would be buying a pill cauldron anymore, so Han Jingyi simply stopped fighting for that market.
The company's crisis had been weathered for the time being, and her main energy was now devoted to research and development on the second-rank automatic pill cauldron.
But a second-rank automatic pill cauldron could not be completed overnight. At present there were only some theoretical inklings of it, and a vast amount of experimentation was still required. Moreover, this time the encryption technology had to be even more advanced, so there was still a rather long road ahead before it could be brought to market.
What Wei Zhao was thinking about now was how to raise Han Jingyi to the Heaven rank as quickly as possible. So long as Han Jingyi was a Heaven-rank expert, she would satisfy the conditions for refining third-rank pills, and should be able to refine Qi Condensation Pills. Of course, the most important problem of all was that Wei Zhao still had no third-rank pill cauldron. Han Jingyi could only simulate pill refinement; she could not carry out actual operations.
Although he had obtained a Divine Farmer Cauldron from You Panhu, it was broken and incomplete. He had originally thought he could obtain the imitation divine-artifact pill cauldron from the ancient tomb, but it had strangely vanished, so even if Han Jingyi could refine the pills, for the time being she had no cauldron to use.
At this point, Wei Zhao felt that he needed to go and research a third-rank pill cauldron himself. The first plan was to repair the Divine Farmer Cauldron. At Han Xiaohu's home, Wei Zhao had obtained a copy of the Fragmentary Manual of the Artificer's Art, and he had not yet studied this book carefully. According to its introduction, however, becoming an artificer was somewhat easier than becoming a caster: a caster required three attributes within the body, while an artificer needed only two. The current Wei Zhao was a cultivator of the five elements and seven attributes, among which were two void attributes and five solid attributes—more than enough to become an artificer.
The second plan was to find a way to get a third-rank pill cauldron from the Mystic Pill Sect. Wei Zhao could basically forget about the You family. Presumably the entire You family had only one or two third-rank pill cauldrons. Such things could only be forged by a caster, and the You family had no caster, so naturally they could not give their only cauldron to Wei Zhao. Unless Wei Zhao could offer them a benefit they could not refuse—but obviously, a benefit they could not refuse was not something Wei Zhao could give them either.
As for the third plan, it was to gather the materials for refining a third-rank pill cauldron and refine one himself. Wei Zhao was now a caster, so refining a third-rank pill cauldron should not be too great a problem.
As things stood, however, the first and second plans were more feasible. Wei Zhao had the Fragmentary Manual of the Artificer's Art in hand, so he could learn the art of the artificer and repair the Divine Farmer Cauldron. But he did not know what level of artificer would be required to repair the Divine Farmer Cauldron, nor whether he could find the corresponding repair materials.