The road to immortality for a hundred generations

"Ok?"

Zi Shumo suddenly raised his eyebrows and suddenly realized, "I remembered that at that time, the host said that there was an alchemist in the Bai family who could be called a grandmaster. He was just a qualified alchemist but not a true alchemist."

There is a saying that if talent is not enough, hard work will make it possible.

Although the cost of precious elixirs like Peiyuan Dan is very high, the calligrapher can still afford it.

They first collected all the experience in refining Pui Yuan Dan on the market at a high price, allowing senior alchemists to increase their order success rate in refining Pui Yuan Dan from [-]% to [-]%.

Then it took another 50 years to use the resources that could cultivate an alchemy master to create a senior alchemist who was only proficient in refining Yuan Pei Dan.

This senior alchemist has about a [-]% success rate in refining the Yuan Pei Dan.

Although it is still not as good as those alchemy masters, it is already very good.

At least compared to other experienced senior alchemists, it is already more than double.

Moreover, experience can be passed on and shared.

With this alchemist who has a success rate of [-]% in refining the Pill, other senior alchemists have also more or less improved the success rate of refining the Pill through shared experience. Dan rate.

As of now, the other two senior alchemists of his Zishu family have also increased their success rate in refining Yuan Yuan Dan from [-]% to [-]%, or even nearly [-]%.

"Let's inquire carefully first. If it's just a senior alchemist who is proficient in refining Yuan Dan, then try to dig it out and see if you can dig it out. If you can't dig it out, forget it. Just make good friends with him."

Speaking of this, Zi Shumo paused slightly, "Of course, if the Bai family really has a real alchemy master, then they must dig it out at all costs!"

Xiantian City's tax revenue is about 3000 million taels a year.

The daily operations of Xiantian City will take away [-]%, and the city lord's mansion will take away [-]%.

The top three families of the remaining [-]% will each receive [-]%, the middle three families will each receive half of the remaining [-]%, and the remaining half of the remaining [-]% will be divided equally among the bottom three families.

In other words, although they are all Grand Master families, the tax revenue received by the three families above is six times that of the three families below!
This is why many grandmaster families from the lower three families and even the middle three families will be promoted to the upper three families as soon as possible once they have an advantage.

Regarding how to get promoted, it is actually very simple.

It all depends on strength.

Every year, each major family grandmaster will send a grandmaster, and the ranking will be determined based on strength.

Although everyone is competing for ideas, after all, this is related to the main annual income of each major family, so they often get angry and even do not know the importance of their actions.

This rule was formulated by the city lord of Xiantian City who was an inner alchemy warrior, and he was naturally responsible for maintaining it.

Every year, he would preside over the competition, and if both sides failed, he would take action to stop it.

In other words, in the eyes of other people, the land gods and inner alchemy warriors who are extremely mysterious are the least seen every year in the eyes of the nine great master families.

On the other side, the Xu family, who settled in XC District, and the Gao family, who settled in Nancheng District, have also settled down.

The former includes Liu Qi, an old Xiantian who has been in Xiantian City for nearly ten years. His strength in the middle Xiantian period is enough to allow the Xu family to open up wasteland in the early stage without being disturbed by other things.

The latter, Gao Qiyun, was successfully promoted to the late Xiantian stage.

In fact, according to Gao Qiyun's plan, she should have been promoted to the late Xiantian stage half a year ago.

But she was in a hurry at that time and it was not stable, so she waited for a while.

So far, within a month, the Wang family represented by Wang Feng, the Gao family represented by Gao Qiyun, the Bai family represented by Bai Yinhe, and the Xu family represented by Xu Tianyang have all successfully taken root in Xiantian City.

Time passed by in a flash, and a month passed in a blink of an eye.

In the past month, all twenty lottery shops opened by Wang Feng are on track.

The passenger flow has gone from a hundred times to a few hundred times now, or even a few hundred times a day.

The number of sales has also increased from a few hundred to a large hundreds, and even one or two thousand times.

The average order price has also increased from less than [-] yuan to nearly [-] yuan.

"Why do I feel that the probability of winning the lottery has become smaller and smaller recently? Has the probability of winning the lottery been secretly changed?"

In the early morning of this day, while waiting for the lottery to open the store, Liu Renyi couldn't help but muttered.

In the ten or so days after the lottery shop first opened, it was difficult for him to lose too much every day.

Either you win a third prize or above and make a fortune, or you almost break even, or you make a small loss.

I have never lost too much.

But recently, he has been losing money for three consecutive days. Although the loss is not much, the daily loss is still [-] to [-]%.

If he were to count seven days forward, then of the ten days, he would only make money on three days, and the remaining seven days would be a small loss to a big loss.

Fortunately, it was the third prize. The probability of winning a grand prize like the second prize had not changed much. He could win it every once in a while.

Otherwise he would definitely not smoke so much every day.

In fact, he didn't feel wrong.

Ten days after the lottery shop opened, Wang Feng asked everyone to lower the return rate.

The return rate was reduced from the original nearly 90.00% to [-]%.

20 days after the opening, Wang Feng once again lowered the return rate by 90.00%, from 70.00% to [-]%.

And last night, it had been a full month since the lottery store opened, and Wang Feng naturally asked everyone to lower their rates for the third time.

Of course, this time is naturally the last time.

Otherwise, the probability of winning is too low and not many people will come to play.

In other words, starting from today, the return rate has returned to normal, basically around 50.00%.

"Huh? Brother Liu, are you here so early again?"

Zhang Shan, who came to open the store, once again saw Liu Renyi waiting at the door.

"It's bad! I didn't feel sleepy too early at night. If I go to bed early, I will naturally wake up early in the morning."

Liu Renyi waved his hand and urged, "You'd better open the door quickly, I'm going to do something big this time!"

Three consecutive days of small losses have made him unable to bear it anymore, and he plans to smoke a few more times today.

Well, from the usual one hundred times to at least two hundred times this time.

"Okay, welcome and welcome."

Zhang Shan nodded repeatedly and opened the store door.

To be honest, he couldn't wait any longer.

Because just yesterday, the master said that no one had ever drawn out this big prize, so he planned to let someone add another big prize and put it in his shop for people to draw out.

Thoroughly promote your own lottery shop.

In other words, someone must win the jackpot today!

That's a full 100 taels of silver!

As for whether Liu Renyi can win this grand prize, it all depends on his luck.

"Quick! Get me five buckets first!"

As soon as the shop door opened, Liu Renyi couldn't wait to sit on the chair next to the counter and took out a five-tael silver note.

Originally, he wanted to smoke two barrels first, and then decide whether to continue smoking based on the situation.But as he waited longer, his patience became less and less, and his fantasies about winning the jackpot became more and more, so he decided not to worry about it and just go for the big one.

"Why are you smoking so much today?"

Zhang Shan's heart skipped a beat, then a smile appeared on his face, and he placed buckets of lottery tickets on the counter.

The location of his store is not the best, so the customer traffic is only among the top five among the [-] stores in total.

But because he has many old and repeat customers in his store, his sales volume can reach the top three, and even occasionally rank first.

This is why the master wants to put that big prize in his shop to attract customers.

"There was something wrong with the business yesterday, and I'm worried about it."

Liu Renyi sighed and took one out of the lottery bucket, "I hope I can win a big prize today to avoid bad luck."

"Oh, so that's it. Then I wish Brother Liu a big prize today."

Zhang Shan said with a smile.

"Grand prize? If it were so easy to win, would it still be called a grand prize?"

Liu Renyi waved his hand nonchalantly and looked at the lottery ticket in his hand, "I'll be thankful if I can win the first prize, huh? Grand prize?"

"Yes, that's what I just said, I wish Brother Liu a big win."

Zhang Shan replied with some confusion.

"No, I mean, I, I won the big prize!"

Liu Renyi swallowed a mouthful of saliva, clutched the lottery ticket in his hand tightly, and looked at the shopkeeper with bright eyes.

In just one or two breaths, he had confirmed dozens of times that yes, it was indeed a grand prize. Whether he looked at it with his eyes or touched it with his hands, it showed that it was a grand prize.

It was definitely not that he was wrong!
"Ah? You, Brother Liu, have you won the grand prize?"

Zhang Shan blinked his eyes, feeling a little dazed.

The master indeed put the grand prize in today's lottery, but the question is, did you win too quickly?This is the first time!

"Look! It's from the shopkeeper!"

Liu Renyi carefully let out the bottom of the lottery ticket in his hand, and then tightly held the upper body of the lottery ticket.

I don't know if I'm afraid that the lottery ticket will be taken away by the shopkeeper, or if it's just a subconscious reaction.

"What a grand prize!"

Zhang Shan moved his eyes over and said blankly.

"Huh? Big prize? Did you win the big prize?"

The stone monster who was cleaning the shop nearby screamed and rushed over in a hurry.

Not only him, but also two customers who had just walked to the door of the store also hurriedly gathered around after hearing their exclamations.

"Did someone win the lottery?"

The two people who had just arrived asked curiously.

"I won! I won! The grand prize of 100 taels!"

Liu Renyi also showed them the bottom of the lottery ticket.

"Oh~ It's really a grand prize!! This, this, this, 100 taels are given directly?"

After repeatedly confirming the handwriting of the prize draw in Liu Renyi's hand, the two people felt very complicated.

They also knew about Liu Renyi, a well-known businessman in Beicheng District, who owned two cheap rice shops.

Of course, they all know that Liu Renyi has been obsessed with lottery lately.

When they first learned the news, they laughed at Liu Renyi for being obsessed with gambling, and that he would eventually lose everything.

But unexpectedly, it was reported that Liu Renyi had won three taels of silver or one tael of silver every now and then, which made them feel itchy and finally went to the lottery shop to try it out.

It's okay if they don't try it. Once they try it, they'll be hooked on it themselves.

The probability of winning is too high, right?
If you are a little bit lucky, you can make a small profit. If you buy in buckets, even if you are unlucky, it will not be like gambling. You will lose everything and easily get back [-] to [-]% of your original capital.

Originally, they didn't pay much attention to Liu Renyi, but the other party's grand prize suddenly made him feel a little hard to accept.

Why couldn't I have come earlier?If I had come earlier, would I have won the grand prize?
This is a full 100 taels!
"Shopkeeper, exchange it for me a banknote!"

After taking a deep breath, Liu Renyi handed over the winning lottery ticket.

It's not surprising that he was excited. Although he was also a businessman, the two cheap rice shops he owned could only bring him a total income of 30 to [-] taels a month.

The 100 taels he won this time was equivalent to a quarter's profit from his two stores!
"Okay, no problem."

After Zhang Shan took the lottery ticket, he simply checked the anti-counterfeiting mark. After confirming that it was genuine, he opened the drawer and counted out ten [-]-tael silver notes.

"Here, Brother Liu, your grand prize!"

Zhang Shan smiled and handed over the stack of banknotes.

"Okay, okay, I'll treat you to dinner after work."

Halfway through the conversation, Liu Renyi suddenly thought of the other party's habits, so he changed his words, "Oh no, noon, I will order a big meal at noon and ask the waiter from the restaurant to bring it over, and we will eat in your restaurant."

But what he didn't expect was that the other party not only didn't reply, but also quickly took back the stack of banknotes in his hand half way through.

"what?"

Liu Renyi was confused for a moment, "What are you, the shopkeeper?"

"Uh, um, Brother Liu, I almost forgot what you told me, I'm sorry."

Zhang Shan was also a little embarrassed at this time, but what he wanted to say was not easy to tell the other party at this time, so he could only quickly turn his head and look at Shitou, "Quickly, put the notice we brought on the wall. , you didn’t remind me, I almost forgot!”

"Notice? Oh, yes, yes!"

Shitou also suddenly understood, and quickly pulled out a rolled up piece of thick white rice paper from the basket he brought.

"Shopkeeper, what's going on? Don't play riddles with me."

Liu Renyi frowned slightly.

He didn't quite believe that the other party wouldn't redeem the prize.

After all, he won the second prize twice and the third prize four or five times, and he was very happy to redeem his prize every time.

Although it is not as good as the 100 taels of the grand prize, he has also learned in the past month that there are a total of [-] lucky draw shops in the palace. It is impossible to break the trust of others, right?
"Brother Liu, don't worry, this grand prize is definitely for you to redeem, but I would like to ask you to read the notice before I redeem the prize for you, because this notice is about your grand prize."

Zhang Shan said helplessly.

There is no way, who made the master suddenly say that there should be something called tax added to the awards including the third prize and above.

And for this kind of thing, it's not good for him to suddenly say when the other party is so excited after winning the big prize, although you won 100 taels, I can't exchange it for you 100 taels, right?
If you really want to do this, you will easily be suspected of being a petty trick, deliberately deceiving people, and not doing business in a real way.

In desperation, he could only come up with something more authoritative and convincing - a notice prepared in advance.

In this way, you can't say that I saw you winning the jackpot and tricked you temporarily, right? (End of chapter)