Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 69 Life Potion
The reason why life potions are divided into three types is mainly because a single bottle of type A life potion costs 100 million Yanhuang coins, which is not something every martial artist can afford to pay at once.

Based on the selling price of life potions, excluding labor and packaging costs, Lu Jin essentially sold each apprentice-level life source crystal for 100 million Yanhuang coins.

In contrast, considering the manufacturing cost, just the purchase price of the monster corpse alone, it only costs tens of thousands of Yanhuang coins per monster.

It's no exaggeration to say that this profit margin is so high that it would be an injustice if it weren't displayed prominently on a streetlight!

Are life-saving drugs expensive?

It looks expensive, but it's actually not outrageous; in fact, it's quite cheap.

Take the Type A life potion, which costs 100 million Yanhuang coins, as an example. Even an ordinary person without any foundation only needs to take more than 500 doses to become a peak warrior of the advanced war god.

And more than 500 doses of Type A life-saving medicine are only worth more than 500 billion Yanhuang coins.

Compared to the 800 billion Yanhuang coins per bottle of Dragon Blood sold by the Ultimate Martial Arts Academy, the Life Potion is incredibly cheap.

It's also worth mentioning that the warriors of the Yanhuang Clan can purchase the A, B, and C types of life potions at a certain discount.

All warriors can enjoy a 5% discount unconditionally. One-star contribution points are discounted by 10%, two-star contribution points by 15%, three-star contribution points by 20%, four-star contribution points by 25%, and five-star contribution points by 30%.

As for major martial arts e-commerce platforms such as War God Palace and Limitless Home, the three types of life potions are priced the same as the official price of Kyushu Company, with no discounts whatsoever.

In addition to the three types of life-saving medicines, A, B, and C, Kyushu Corporation also launched a special beverage called Life Pulse.

Life Pulse is actually also the life source fluid, but it is diluted with a very high amount of water.

One apprentice-level Life Source Crystal is used to make 5 tons of beverage water, packaged in aluminum alloy cans, with each can containing 250ml of Life Pulse beverage.

Theoretically speaking, drinking one can of Life Pulse can increase punching power or mental strength by 0.05kg, and the effect of a single dose is negligible.

However, Life Pulse is sold very cheaply, at 5 Yanhuang coins a bottle, which is not much more expensive than ordinary drinks.

Of course, its most important effect is not the 0.05kg increase in punching power after each can is consumed.

Instead, it is used to quickly restore physical strength and eliminate minor injuries caused by excessive martial arts training.

Because the life force is diluted with too much water, and because genetic energy can also eliminate hidden injuries, this thing is almost useless for formal martial artists.

However, for martial arts students who have not yet cultivated their genetic energy, the effect is still quite good.

Martial arts students recover their physical strength faster, which can effectively extend their daily training time, and they don't need to worry about physical injury.

Over the years, this will inevitably shorten the time required to become a formal martial artist.

One Apprentice-level Life Source Crystal can be converted into 5 tons of beverage water. Each bottle contains 250ml, which can fill 20,000 bottles. Each bottle costs 5 Yanhuang Coins, so 20,000 bottles would cost 100,000 Yanhuang Coins.

One Apprentice-level Life Source Crystal is equivalent to 10 Yanhuang Coins in sales.
Given that employees still need to be paid, it's no exaggeration to say that Lu Jin is practically selling the Life Pulse business at cost price.

For no other reason than to expand their own base.

Of course, as a special offer version of the Life Pulse beverage, it is only available at Kyushu Corporation's directly operated stores in its six major base cities across the country.

Furthermore, to purchase Life Pulse, one not only needs a citizen ID card from the Yanhuang Kingdom, but each person is also limited to purchasing a maximum of one dozen, or 12 cans, per day.

The reason for the purchase restrictions is mainly to prevent people from taking advantage of loopholes.

It's like someone spending 100,000 Yanhuang coins to buy 20,000 cans of Life Pulse, and then dumping them all together.

Theoretically, after the water evaporates, a powdered apprentice-level life crystal can be obtained, thus making huge profits.

It can be said that, apart from the black market, non-Yanhuang citizens cannot buy Life Pulse.

In Lu Jin's view, although they are all human, there are differences between Earthlings and non-Earthlings. And the Yanhuang people are also different from other Earthlings.

As the First Speaker of the War God Palace, he enjoys the rights of the First Speaker and also fulfills the obligations that come with it.

For example, when the O allies encounter a horde of beasts that they cannot withstand, he has an obligation to intervene.

But many more things are outside his scope of obligations.

But things are different in China. He is the chairman of the Yanhuang Weifang Council, and his power is unlimited.

Different rights are enjoyed, so differential treatment is necessary; otherwise, wouldn't that be betraying one's own people?
Kyushu Corporation's sale of Life Pulse, a product affordable to ordinary citizens, at a low price is one example of Lu Jin's discriminatory treatment.

Otherwise, with an apprentice-level life source crystal priced at only 10 Yanhuang coins, Speaker Lu wouldn't bother with such a unprofitable business; selling life potions directly would be much easier.

The business of Kyushu Company selling various types of life-saving potions may seem to take up a lot of Lu Jin's cultivation time, but that's not actually the case.

All he had to do was go to the six large monster carcass freezers in the six major base cities every now and then to collect the corpses and decompose them into apprentice-level life crystals.

Then, these apprentice-level life source crystals were diluted with 100ml of pure water at a ratio of one crystal to 100ml of pure water to form type A life potion, which was then sent to Kyushu Corporation.

Finally, the employees of Kyushu Corporation mixed the ingredients a second time, which resulted in Type B and Type C life-saving agents and a life-pulsating beverage.

Kyoto Base City, Kyushu Corporation headquarters building.

"Mr. Xu, after the announcement, the three types of life potions have become very popular among martial artists, and many directly operated stores in the six major base cities are packed with citizens buying life-giving elixirs. However..."

A female secretary, around twenty-five or twenty-six years old, was holding a laptop and reporting to CEO Xu Xin.

"Just what?"

Xu Xin frowned.

The secretary said, "The news about Life Pulse has received overwhelmingly positive feedback from Chinese netizens."

However, because LifePulse is only sold domestically and requires a citizen's ID card to purchase, overseas netizens have criticized the company, accusing Kyushu Corporation of regional discrimination and differential treatment.

Upon hearing this, Xu Xin waved her hand and directly instructed: "Ordinary netizens abroad do not need to pay attention, but if it is a group, public figure, or well-known blogger, send a lawyer's letter directly."

"Yes, Mr. Xu."

The secretary nodded.

Xu Xin had anticipated this scene long before the company announced the news on its official website.

There's no way around it; if it were her, she would also feel that Kyushu Corporation was being unfair.

But Xu Xin knew that in the Life Pulse business, it wasn't that the big boss, Lu Jin, was discriminating against foreigners, but rather that he was giving preferential treatment to his own citizens.

The official price of Type A Life Potion is 100 million Yanhuang Coins, but the official price of 20,000 cans of Life Pulse Drink made from one Type A Life Potion is only 100,000 Yanhuang Coins.

Doesn't it sound absurd that a product incurs significantly higher costs than before, yet its price drops by a thousand times?
It's absolutely outrageous!

But those in the know within the company understand that this is Lu Jin distributing welfare to the people of Yanhuang.

Since it's a welfare benefit, isn't it normal that Chinese people receive it while foreigners don't?
You don't?
Who told you you weren't a citizen of the Yanhuang clan?

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