Treasure Vase Alchemy Room.

Chen Mobai looked at the sign at the entrance, took out the visitor card given by Qing Nv, and the guard let him in after a quick scan.

“You’re just in time. This is the successfully blended Spirit Water. Just pour it into the containers and seal it.”

As one of the top pharmacies in Danxia City, the rented Treasure Vase Alchemy Room was fully equipped. Qing Nv, dressed in a white lab coat, handed a pot of standard Qi-replenishing Spirit Water to Chen Mobai, pointing to a dozen glass tubes slotted into a rack on the table next to them.

“What about the rest?”

Chen Mobai put down the three large bags of medicinal herbs he was holding, took the teapot to start sealing, and looked at the other half of the medicinal liquid that had been separated in the pool.

“These raw liquids contain excessive amounts of toxic elements. After collection, they need to be put into special sealing bags. Before leaving, hand them over to the recycling staff of the Treasure Vase Pharmacy. They will collect and destroy them.”

As Qing Nv spoke, she took out a rolled-up plastic sealing bag from a cabinet on the wall. After infusing it with spiritual power, it immediately inflated and turned into a square sealing bag.

“You’ve improved. There are 20 tubes this time.”

Chen Mobai steadily poured the diluted Spirit Water from the teapot into the standard glass tubes, then sealed the bottle.

“The equipment in this alchemy room is better than my previous teacher’s, and after having hands-on experience once, I’ve definitely improved. If it weren’t for my unfamiliarity with the equipment in this alchemy room, I could have produced 25 tubes, nearly a 50% success rate.”

Qing Nv said, having already sealed the non-standard raw liquids and placed them in a trash can marked with the word “poison”.

“Is this the next batch of medicinal herbs? Let me take a look.”

As she spoke, Qing Nv opened the three main herbs that Chen Mobai had brought from the Tianhe Realm, took a sniff, and her eyes lit up.

“The age and medicinal properties of these herbs are more abundant than the ones we bought online before. Next time, we might be able to produce 30 tubes.”

Upon hearing this, Chen Mobai also smiled. He had been worried that the things from the Tianhe Realm might not meet the standards here.

“However, these herbs have been poorly preserved, and some of their medicinal properties have been lost. They need to be used as soon as possible.”

After confirming all three herbs, Qing Nv gave Chen Mobai some not-so-good news.

But this was to be expected. After all, the alchemy technology on Earth had reached its peak, with different preservation methods for different properties of herbs. Some even had specially adjusted temperature-controlled medicine warehouses to preserve the medicinal properties to the best extent.

In the Tianhe Realm, at most, they could only ensure dry, ventilated, and cool conditions. If they could preserve most of the medicinal properties, it would already be a hard-earned result for those cultivation families.

“By the way, how does your teacher usually charge the Treasure Vase Pharmacy for selling this Qi-replenishing Spirit Water?”

Chen Mobai asked again. He was planning to buy a powerful talisman to break the Water Mansion’s Water Thunder Formation, but he was short of Good Deeds.

“My teacher only charges for processing. The party A provides the medicinal herbs. Regardless of the final yield, he charges 1000 Good Deeds each time.”

“1000 for each time, that’s easy money.”

Upon hearing Chen Mobai’s words, Qing Nv took out a calculator and did some calculations for him.

“The Treasure Vase Pharmacy has its own medicinal fields and factories. The cost of the main and auxiliary herbs is probably no more than 2000.”

“My teacher’s success rate in refining mid-grade Qi-replenishing Spirit Water is generally over 95%. He gives them 40 tubes each time. According to the market price of 200 Good Deeds per tube, that’s 8000 Good Deeds.”

“Deducting the processing fee of 1000, the material cost of 2000, and various channel costs, the Treasure Vase Pharmacy makes at least 4000 Good Deeds profit each time.”

After hearing this, Chen Mobai couldn’t help but sigh, “Selling medicine is really profitable.”

“But we can’t ignore the cost of maintaining such a large scale for the Treasure Vase Pharmacy, as well as the salary costs of the medicinal fields and factories. But anyway, selling medicine is recognized as the easiest industry to get rich in the Immortal Gate.”

Among the four disciplines of the Immortal Gate – talisman, elixir, artifact, and formation, talismans representing spells are only popular in daily life, and due to low barriers to entry and high competition, they basically only have a slim profit margin.

The same goes for artifacts. Combat artifacts basically can’t sell for much. Only cooking artifacts and transportation tools like airships and cars can make money.

Formations are even more high-end products, basically custom-made, full-house orders, emphasizing a brand. There are very few manufacturers in this field.Only the field of elixir medicine has developed to an extreme maturity, and it is indispensable for everyone’s cultivation breakthrough. However, the Immortal Gate strictly controls the threshold, continuously raising the standards. After thousands of years of internal competition, among the six major pharmaceutical giants that have emerged, there is the Baoping Medicine Shop.

These pharmaceutical giants can basically be considered monopolies. If it weren’t for the Immortal Gate’s strict control of prices, ordinary cultivators like Chen Mobai might not even be able to afford them even if they managed to get their hands on them.

“It’s a pity that we’re not refining Qi-replenishing Spirit Water for Baoping Medicine Shop, otherwise they would provide ‘Spirit Essence’, which would guarantee a success rate of over 80% each time.”

Qing Nv looked at the original liquid in the trash can that needed to be disposed of and couldn’t help but sigh.

“Spirit Essence? What is that? Is it also a kind of auxiliary medicine?”

Chen Mobai asked.

“Yes, it’s similar. It’s an auxiliary medicine used by those big pharmacies specifically to filter out pill toxins. The reason why the master can achieve a success rate of over 95% each time, apart from his superb skills, is also because of the ‘Spirit Essence’ provided by Baoping Medicine Shop.”

“Can this ‘Spirit Essence’ be bought?”

“You’re thinking too simply. This ‘Spirit Essence’ is the fundamental reason why these pharmaceutical giants have emerged from the thousands of years of competition in the Immortal Gate. Even if an ordinary pharmacy has a fourth-order alchemist, due to the lack of Spirit Essence, they can only shine for a hundred years at most, and they can’t compete with them.”

Chen Mobai thought of the countless alchemists in the Immortal Gate, big and small, but these alchemists, in order to reach a higher level, would eventually join one of the six major pharmaceutical giants.

“Is this ‘Spirit Essence’ only available in the six major pharmacies?”

“Not necessarily. This ‘Spirit Essence’ is made by crushing spirit stones that have been depleted of spiritual energy. You can collect a little from various channels, but only the six major pharmacies, backed by either the Immortal Gate or the Four Great Dao Institutes, have a massive reserve of spirit stones.”

Upon hearing this, Chen Mobai was instantly stunned.

“What did you say?”

“What?”

“Spirit Essence is made from spirit stones that have been depleted of spiritual energy! Can that thing be reused like this!”

Chen Mobai was once again moved to tears by the frugality of the cultivators on Earth.