Immortality and cultivation begin with alchemy and accounting.

After Bai Xuanjing advanced to the first-tier mid-grade alchemist, she still needed to refine pills for her family, so it was natural for her to prioritize the pills listed in the task catalog.

Although unorthodox elixirs often have special uses, even the Bai family alchemists would not practice them if they could not use them.

After all, there are considerable sunk costs in the early stages of alchemy.

It's far better to refine the pills for the family mission first, improve your pill refining skills, and then have the spare energy to look back at these low-level pills.

After all, once one's skill reaches the mid-grade of the first rank, one's understanding of alchemy deepens, and when one goes back to refine low-grade first-rank pills, the initial success rate will not be too low.

After a moment's thought, Bai Qingbai said, "When you advance to the first-tier mid-grade alchemist level, if you refine pills for the family, they will be nothing more than Azure Water Pills, Tiger Stripe Pills, and the like."

"Among them, the Azure Water Pill is the simplest to refine, followed by the Tiger Stripe Pill."

However, from what I've observed of your alchemy practice lately, I feel that the Clear Spring Pill is more suitable for you to refine, and you might be able to master it even faster than the Tiger Stripe Pill.

In my opinion, your next mid-grade first-tier pill should be the Clear Spring Pill!

Bai Xuanjing nodded.

Although he was an alchemist, his understanding of high-level pills was definitely not as good as Bai Qingbai's.

Now that Bai Qingbai had given his recommendation, he had made his decision.

So he cupped his hands and looked at Bai Qinglu: "Aunt Qinglu, I'll take this Clear Spring Pill."

Bai Qinglu nodded slightly.

Following the alchemy manual are the medicinal materials needed to refine the Azure Water Pill.

Upon entering the herbal medicine warehouse, Bai Qinglu looked at Bai Qingbai with some resentment, "Recently, the family has been going to wage war, and there are limits on all kinds of resources, especially those related to herbal medicines."

"Brother Qingbai, you've asked for over a hundred portions of mid-grade first-tier spiritual herbs without even asking! You've given me a real problem!"

Bai Qingbai chuckled and didn't argue.

His needs have been met, so what if the person who helped him complains a bit?

As she spoke, Bai Qinglu reached out and took several brocade boxes off the shelf.

These brocade boxes are also storage containers.

After opening the package, Bai Qinglu took out the medicinal materials needed to refine the Azure Water Pill one by one.

"There are still materials for thirty portions of Clear Spring Pills!"

Bai Qingbai offered a reminder from the side.

"I don't need you to remind me. Do you think I'm senile?" Bai Qinglu snorted irritably.

Then he took some storage artifacts down from the shelf.

"Do as I say, each of you take out some medicinal materials." Bai Qingbai looked at Bai Xuanjing and the other two with a smile.

Bai Xuanjing nodded and selected fifty portions of materials for refining the Azure Water Pill and thirty portions of materials for the Clear Spring Pill.

Seeing that the three of them had finished selecting their materials, Bai Qingbai coughed lightly and looked at Bai Qinglu with a smile: "Could you please calculate the contribution points, Qinglu?"

Bai Qinglu nodded, took out a roll of paper, and began to calculate.

"Xuanjing, a mackerel alchemy furnace, originally priced at 510 contribution points."

The Clear Spring Elixir Manual, originally priced at 215 contribution points.

Fifty portions of materials for Azure Water Pill and thirty portions of materials for Clear Spring Pill, totaling one thousand three hundred and sixty contribution points.

Adding them all together, and taking into account the second wife's discount, the total is 1,668 contribution points.

"Brother Qingbai, if you're willing to contribute half of your contribution points, Xuanjing will pay another 834 contribution points."

After saying that, Bai Qinglu looked at Bai Xuanjing.

With over 800 contribution points, the savings of these young disciples alone are probably not enough.

However, many of the Bai family disciples have elders to rely on.

If we had to put it into words, quite a few people could probably accumulate those contribution points.

After all, the spiritual items purchased today are all for the purpose of preparing for becoming a mid-grade first-level alchemist, which can be considered an investment in oneself.

The salary of a Bai family cultivator is influenced by many factors, including age, strength, and position.

For alchemists, the salary of a mid-grade first-level alchemist is incomparable to that of a low-grade first-level alchemist.

After advancing to the first-tier mid-grade alchemist, one can obtain more resources, and with some "side jobs," it won't take more than a few years to earn back the initial investment.

Any cultivator with foresight would be willing to pay this amount for their offspring.

Bai Xuanjing pondered in his heart.

Huang Yudan initially earned over 700 contribution points, and with the additional points given by the Punishment Hall and his previous savings, he now has approximately 1,300 contribution points.

That's enough to take all of these things.

Thinking of this, he took out his identity token and handed it to Bai Qinglu.

However, along with the identity token, Bai Xuanjing also handed over Zhan Yue Dao Lu's storage bag: "Grandma, this is a storage bag from an evil cultivator from the outer sea. Please exchange it for contribution points for me."

I'd also like to exchange my contribution for a larger storage bag.

After saying that, Bai Xuanjing seemed to remember something and added, "The storage bags of these evil cultivators from the outer seas are all registered in the Punishment Hall."

The Bai family disciples are scattered all over the world, and they inevitably have to deal with heretical practitioners.

The Family Contribution Pavilion is also willing to accept second-hand magical artifacts, storage bags, and other "trophies" for recycling and making full use of resources.

However, the Family Contribution Pavilion would be hesitant to accept storage bags of dubious origin, especially those involving the Flowing Cloud Sect and Golden Core clans.

Bai Xuanjing mentioned the filing of the Punishment Hall in order to dispel Bai Qinglu's concerns.

Seeing Bai Xuanjing take out a storage bag, Bai Qinglu gave Bai Xuanjing a scrutinizing look.

However, she didn't say much, but instead took the storage bag and began to inspect it.

She quickly returned the storage bag to Bai Xuanjing, saying, "Heh, these evil cultivators from the outer sea really don't cherish their magical artifacts."

This storage bag lacks the nourishment of magical power and has many damaged restrictions, so it can only be described as usable.

Although remaking a magic weapon is much simpler than creating one from scratch, it requires adding spiritual materials and restrictions, and the price is definitely lower than that of a new product.

"...If we acquire it, you'll be paid 75 low-grade spirit stones or an equivalent amount of contribution points."

This price was within Bai Xuanjing's expectations.

Zhan Yue's storage bag is only five square units in size. Even if it were sold as a finished product, it would only be worth about a hundred low-grade spirit stones.

In the Contribution Pavilion, this kind of storage bag is only worth one hundred contribution points.

"What size storage bag did you say you wanted to buy?"

"The family's storage bags come in three-sided, five-sided, eight-sided, and ten-sided styles..."

Bai Xuanjing hesitated for a moment, then said, "I want a ten-sided one!"

His current storage bag only has a three-cubic-meter storage space, which is barely enough. If he has too many things, he can't fit them all in.

Even so, this three-dimensional storage bag is priced at sixty contribution points in the Contribution Pavilion.

As for the Ten Directions Storage Bag, it is worth two hundred contribution points.

However, its volume can be greatly increased.

Bai Qinglu nodded and quoted, "Ten-square storage bags, two hundred contribution points."

Then she turned around and went back to the magic artifact storeroom, where she took out a storage bag.

The pattern and style of this storage bag are similar to Bai Xuanjing's previous ones, and the size is also basically the same.

However, if you hold it in your hand and examine it with your magic, you can clearly sense the storage space inside, which is about ten square meters in size.