In an era where everyone is cultivating immortality, the system wants me to become a demon?

Chapter 206 Squad Leader Su Yuan, we respect you! (4.4K views, please vote! Please subscribe!)

Before Qi Hanyue could react, Su Yuan had already greeted her with great enthusiasm.

"Welcome to the Yuanjiao Dantang, everyone!"

“Each of you is a rising star in the world of alchemy! I have been waiting for you for a long time!”

"By joining the Yuanjiao Dantang, this great incubation platform, you will gain the most substantial front-line work experience and receive meticulous guidance from senior figures in the alchemy world."

"At the same time, you will be able to acquire credits far faster than other students, exchange them for immortal spiritual roots as soon as possible, and forge an unparalleled foundation for the Dao."

Su Yuan's fluent and persuasive speech left the honest students in the preparatory class completely bewildered.

After a long while, someone finally asked rationally:
"Class Monitor Su Yuan, I heard from classmate Chen that your alchemy workshop is far better than other workshops. Could you please tell me what its specific advantages are?"

Su Yuan smiled slightly and said:

"It has so many advantages."

"I won't go into the benefits and perks, as I'm sure you all have those. Let's just talk about the benefits in terms of academic credits."

“Normally, people who want to generate income through alchemy only have two options.”

"One is to refine pills under the name of an individual business owner, and the other is to become a temporary worker for a certain pill refining sect."

"But the drawbacks of both paths are obvious. Individual vendors don't have enough voice and can't gain customers' trust, so the sales of pills naturally won't be high."

"If you become a temporary worker, more than half of the profits from alchemy will be taken by the sect, and these profits cannot be converted into academic credits."

At this point, Su Yuan's tone became mysterious, and he lowered his voice as he said:
“But Yuanjiao is different. After all, I am your class monitor. How could I bear to deduct your salary?”

"Come work in my factory, and all the profits from the pills you refine will nominally belong to you and can be fully converted into corresponding academic credits."

"Not to mention that the Yuan Sect has many artists under its command, and I am one of the biggest internet celebrities in Taihua City."

"Thanks to the promotion by Yuanshi Media, our workshop's sales will definitely be much higher than those of the lower-middle-level alchemy sects."

Upon hearing this, the students in the preparatory class suddenly understood.

So, joining the Yuanjiao Dantang is indeed a good idea.

Suddenly, their gazes toward Su Yuan became much more affectionate.

Class monitor Su Yuan is such a good person! Preparatory class students don't lie to other preparatory class students!

But at that moment, a blind student suddenly discovered the key point:

"Squad Leader Su Yuan, you just said that the profits from alchemy are nominally ours. What do you mean by 'nominal'?"

Su Yuan's smile slowly faded.

Chen Nuoyi quietly closed the factory door.

The entire workshop suddenly became gloomy, causing some unease among the preparatory students.

Su Yuan spoke calmly:
"Everyone, such a large Yuan Sect still needs to eat."

"I cannot run a charity, so I would like to make a verbal gentleman's agreement with you all here."

"It's very simple. Before the alchemy profits are converted into academic credits, this money will be in your accounts. But once the academic credit conversion is complete, please return 70% of the profits to me."

"In this way, our Yuan Sect can continue to exist and expand for a long time."

"I've finished speaking. Who agrees and who disagrees?"

The preparatory students looked at each other in bewilderment after hearing this.

Seventy percent?

Other alchemy sects would take a maximum of 50%, and even the better ones would take around 30%.

Is it a bit harsh of you to go straight for 70%?
As expected, this was a completely shady factory.

However, from another perspective, this seems to be a way of exchanging money for academic credits!
The geniuses who can get into the preparatory class, with very few exceptions, are unlikely to come from poor families.

At least the few students in the preparatory class who had been exposed to elixirs since childhood and whose families had a long tradition of learning about them had little concept of money.

Paying money to earn credits seems like a pretty good deal.

After exchanging glances, the preparatory students all agreed.

The factory doors opened silently, sunlight streamed back into the room, and Su Yuan's smile returned.
"Shall we start getting to know each other at work?"

Immediately afterwards, Su Yuan treated the six preparatory students he had recruited in the same way he treated the middle-aged alchemist, leading them into the medicinal herb warehouse.

As expected, the students chose the orthodox pill formula without hesitation, over the demonic pill formula.

Su Yuan didn't say anything about it and readily agreed.

Once all the alchemists were gathered, Su Yuan waved his hand and immediately got to work!
Six preparatory students and Qi Hanyue were responsible for refining the righteous path's third-stage golden pills, while the other middle-aged alchemists were refining the demonic path's third-stage golden pills in a larger workshop.

Su Yuan started the live broadcast, while Chen Nuoyi simultaneously promoted the show in the Golden City of the Illusionary Realm.

The Yuan Cult's 10,000 online trolls launched a massive advertising campaign on the Spirit Network.

Some of the Miaoyin streamers who received the message even simultaneously released review videos of the Three-Turn Golden Elixir.

"Family members! The Yuanjiao Dantang has been officially established!"

Su Yuan greeted the camera and arrived at the factory where the righteous path third-stage golden pills were refined.

He pointed to the seven young alchemists and said:

"Family members, please look. These seven are my classmates from the top ten preparatory classes. They are all experts in alchemy."

"Together we form a young and dynamic i-person team."

Su Yuan picked up a newly refined, still steaming, three-stage golden pill:
"Family members, please take another look. This is the Three-Turn Golden Elixir produced by the Yuanjiao Dantang. The formula has been approved and has been rigorously selected by the Xuan Yi Tian Zong Doctor and the Golden Elixir Master Qiu Xuanji Qiu Zhenren."

"Our Three-Stage Golden Elixir is divided into three types: Red Elixir, White Elixir, and Black Elixir, each with a different focus on body refinement."

"If you take these three golden pills at the same time, you will receive the special bonus of Nine Dragons Protecting You."

"Although there are some side effects, they can be eliminated by taking it together with Xiaokuihua Liver Protection Tablets."

"Order now and enjoy a super value deal on the Kowloon Set Meal! Three pills for only 20,000 yuan!"

After a vigorous promotion, it naturally attracted the interest of some viewers.

Soon, viewers placed orders.

However, the number of orders was not high, and it even seemed rather meager compared to Su Yuan's enormous popularity.

The reason is quite clear.

First, the pricing is too high. If you don't buy it according to the package price, a single Three-Turn Golden Pill costs as much as 10,000 yuan, which is more expensive than most Qi Refining stage body-refining medicines on the market.

Secondly, there is a lack of trust in the quality of the elixirs.

Despite the hype surrounding the Three-Turn Golden Elixir and the quality inspection by Master Qiu, the fact that it was artificially refined is enough to deter more than 70% of customers from purchasing it.

Can artificially refined pills compare to those produced on the assembly line of a major sect's pill-refining factory?
What to do when there are both good and bad products?
What if I get sick from eating it?
Besides, big companies have competing products similar to the Three-Turn Golden Elixir, so why should they buy your new drug?

Besides, do you think the online army of alchemy sects is a pushover?

Shortly after the broadcast started, Su Yuan noticed a large number of online trolls flooding the screen with negative reviews and stirring up trouble.

It's obvious that the public relations teams of the alchemy sects have put in the effort!

With the alchemy market nearing saturation, how could these major companies possibly allow Su Yuan, a popular online celebrity, to enter the market and take a slice of the pie?
It's the perfect time to strike hard and crush Su Yuan while the Yuan Sect's Pill Hall is still in its early stages.

It is foreseeable that many competing pills will lower their prices in the future, using price wars to squeeze the Yuanjiao Pill Hall out of business!
It can only be said that Su Yuan's status as an internet celebrity allows him to gain attention for whatever he does, but it also makes him a target for suppression by his competitors.

However, all the difficulties that arose during the publicity process were within Su Yuan's expectations.

He enthusiastically streamed for over two hours before ending the broadcast successfully. Qi Hanyue, who had been closely watching the live stream and the orders, quickly stopped what she was doing and pulled Su Yuan aside to ask:

"Master, I feel like the publicity isn't going very well. Will our three-stage golden pills not sell?"

Upon hearing this question, Su Yuan simply smiled and said:

"Didn't I tell you long ago? The righteous path's third-stage golden pill is just used as a price anchor for the demonic path's third-stage golden pill."

"If you want to increase sales volume, you have to look to the latter."

As he spoke, Su Yuan glanced at the flood of negative reviews from online trolls in the comments section and sneered:
"Trying to strangle me? Hmph! I've already planned a roundabout way to achieve my goal!"

He directly called Yang Wentao and asked him to come and pick up the goods.

Fifteen minutes later, Yang Wentao, who had been waiting for a long time, arrived at the factory.

Su Yuan led the people to the factory of demonic pills, and handed over to Yang Wentao the first batch of more than ninety demonic third-stage golden pills refined by the middle-aged alchemists, packaged in bottles of three.

"Stop selling the blue pills, and start selling the third-stage Golden Elixir from now on!"

"Each Three-Turn Golden Pill has an effect lasting up to six hours. If the three pills (black, white, and red) are taken together, the effect can be extended to nine hours."

"The price is 7,000 per bottle, while the Kowloon Set Meal is 18,000 per bottle."

Su Yuan instructed Yang Wentao:

"There are only three tricks to selling medicine."

"Firstly, the blue pills will no longer be produced, and they can only be removed from the shelves to meet customer demand."

"Secondly, I showed them clips from my live stream. Once they knew the official price of the Three-Turn Golden Elixir, they would naturally understand how significant the discount was."

"Thirdly, we want to tell them that the Demonic Path Third-Stage Golden Elixir is also produced by a legitimate alchemy workshop, and its quality is guaranteed."

"As for the original customers of Nine Dragons Hall, the above sales pitch is unnecessary. Just tell them that this is a rebranded and upgraded version of Nine Dragons Pills, and they will naturally buy it."

Yang Wentao solemnly accepted the storage bag containing nearly a hundred pills, nodding vigorously:

"Please rest assured, Master, I will provide professional training to all my subordinates so that they can master sales techniques."

"Go."

Su Yuan waved his hand casually, and Yang Wentao immediately left his work.

Two days later.

As Su Yuan predicted, the sales of the Demon Version of the Three-Turn Golden Pill exploded!
Originally, the Yuan Sect couldn't possibly handle the Nine Dragons Hall's customers with just the blue pills. But after the Three-Turn Golden Pills were put on the market, almost 100% of those customers were converted into new customers for the Yuan Sect.

As a result, Su Yuan's credit growth rate also exploded.

In two days, a total of 300 Demon Edition Three-Turn Golden Pills were sold, the vast majority of which were sold in sets at a price of 6,000 each.

After deducting the salaries of the middle-aged alchemists and various costs, and the profit share given to Qi Hanyue, Su Yuan can earn about three thousand yuan for each magic version pill.

These are all legitimate sources of income that Master Qiu turns a blind eye to, and can be converted into academic credits!
Two days, 900 credits!
But Su Yuan not only received 900 credits, he also earned income from refining the improved version of the Heavenly Pearl.

During this period, Su Yuan refined twelve Heaven-Opening Pearls, each worth 20,000, which is another 214 credits.

In addition to the various sect missions he has completed, Su Yuan's current credits have reached -1990!

This is enough to buy a niche, specialized foundation-building technique!
The ten preparatory classes have only been running for less than fifteen days!
Even though Su Yuan's methods were somewhat on the edge of the law, the ten mentors had to admit one thing.

In terms of credit growth rate, Su Yuan is probably the fastest among the ten preparatory classes since their inception.

While Su Yuan was accumulating academic credits, the other cadres of the Yuan Cult were not idle either.

Li Zhengxing and Yun Ling, the young couple, and Xiao Meng and Xiao Kong, the siblings, are all local bullies in Taihua City.

With the help of the Li and Xiao families, the hidden benefits they gained are self-evident.

For example, the revenue-generating task of Guantiange in management involves directly joining the affiliated sects of the family. Upon joining, one becomes a senior executive and earns a lot of credits.

Another example is the revenue-generating mission of the Demon-Slaying Sword Sect.

It couldn't be easier for the two major families in Taihua City to control certain illegal establishments.

Bathhouses, foot massage parlors, and some small hotels with pink signs lit up late at night, which had special businesses, were severely impacted during this period.

That's how you get academic credits, isn't it?

Fortunately, larger underground forces like "Aichong TV" are well hidden and have not yet been affected.

Otherwise, the system mission of Su Yuan eliminating the demonic sect might be affected to some extent.

Then there are Chen Nuoyi and Wu Ziying.

Su Yuan naturally took great care of the two of them, making sure they had meat to eat and also some soup for them.

Chen Nuoyi receives a salary and bonuses at the Yuanjiao Dantang, while Wu Ziying, as the Dantang's designated test subject, naturally also receives a salary.

Once sects like Zhenwu Shengzong and Xinghe Daozong, which emphasize physical education and Daoist practices, begin offering courses, the two will naturally leverage their strengths and start earning a large number of credits.

On this day, Su Yuan handed over a new batch of Demon Version Three-Turn Golden Pills to Yang Wentao. Shortly after he sent the man away, there was another knock on the office door.

Su Yuan remained seated in his office chair, while Wu Ziying, who was standing to the side acting as his secretary, stepped forward and opened the office door.

To their surprise, the six preparatory students who were about to join the Dan Hall were standing at the door.

Behind these people followed a somewhat helpless Qi Hanya.

"What brings you all here?"

Su Yuan remained calm and asked with a smile.

One of the representatives said nervously:
"Master, it's like this."

"Recently, orders for genuine pills have been decreasing, and our academic credit earnings are really low. Is there any way to change this situation?"

Su Yuan nodded in realization, but was not surprised at all.

Because this was exactly what he had expected.

He said calmly:
"Initially, you all chose to refine the genuine pills. If you had chosen the demonic version from the beginning, you wouldn't have had to worry about having too few orders."

"To be honest, the magic version of the pills has been sold out for a long time, and the pre-orders are piling up like mountains."

Upon hearing this, the student representative seemed to want to say something, but appeared to have some reservations and hesitated to speak.

Su Yuan spoke up for them:

"I've pretty much guessed what everyone means. They want to switch from the righteous path to the demonic path, right?"

"No...we..."

The student representative tried to explain somewhat helplessly, but was interrupted by Su Yuan:

"There's no need to hide it; our Yuan Cult is a legitimate demonic sect."

"So what if I really fall into the demonic path? It's acceptable to the world anyway, isn't it?"

The students in the preparatory class looked at each other, then nodded silently.

Qi Hanyue, who was following behind the crowd, felt a chill creeping into her heart.

So Su Yuan had planned everything all along!
The reason he allowed the preparatory class students to choose the genuine pills was because he had long anticipated that they would be unable to resist the benefits of the demonic pills and would choose to fall into the demonic path!

This is far better than forcing preparatory students to refine magical pills from the very beginning!

Once the students have started this trend, will they be able to extricate themselves from the Yuan Cult in the future?

Once you step into the demonic path, you're a demon for life!
(End of this chapter)