This is a cultivation game, but its operation is terrible.

Material: One ten-year-old herb.

Success rate: 41%.

Upon seeing the success rate of refining Qi Refining Pills, Jiang Liu's eyes widened instantly, his face filled with disbelief.

41%?!

Despite the enhancements from the alchemy level and the Crimson Furnace, the success rate was only 41%!

Are even the lowest-grade pills this difficult to refine?

"I sold the Qi Refining Pills to Li Dongze at a loss!"

Jiang Liu suddenly realized that he had sold 50 Qi Refining Pills for 70 spirit stones, which was several times the price of the first recharge gift pack and the limited purchase gift pack in the mall.

One spirit stone in the daily gift pack can buy three Qi Refining Pills. He thought he was already selling them for a pretty high price, but now that he thinks about it... the value of Qi Refining Pills is even higher than he imagined.

Ten-year-old medicinal herbs, 30% success rate...

You need to sell each Qi Refining Pill for at least 3 spirit stones to make a profit!

"Never mind, it's already sold. Let's raise the price next time."

Jiang Liu shook his head and clicked on the alchemy option.

[Qi Refining Pill: Consumes 1/47 of ten-year-old spiritual herbs, success rate 41%, refine?]

【Yes】

The moment he clicked "yes," flames suddenly burst forth from the crimson furnace in front of him. Even though it was just in the game, he could vaguely feel a scorching heat rushing towards him.

Five seconds later.

[Alchemy failed, alchemy experience +1, continue?]

【Yes】

[Alchemy successful. One Qi Refining Pill obtained. Alchemy experience +1. Continue?]

【Yes】

[The alchemy was successful...]

[Alchemy failed...]

[Alchemy failed...]

47 ten-year-old spiritual herbs were used to refine a total of 22 Qi Refining Pills. Jiang Liu's lips twitched slightly as he looked at the freshly made Qi Refining Pills.

The quantity is too small; it's not even enough for him to eat, let alone sell!

I don't have any material!

Currently, the only places to obtain alchemy materials are the permanent pool and story trials. Story trials are also one-time events with extremely low yields.

Damn, wait a minute, who was the genius who put a ten-year-old spiritual herb of extremely low value into the permanent pool?

Sinkhole!

Jiang Liu cursed inwardly, then switched to the Immortal Cultivation Era and nudged Li Dongze beside him.

"What?"

Li Dongze didn't even open his eyes, and said in an unfriendly tone, "One second he was calling me 'Brother Liu,' and the next second he was all angry. That's how real rich kids are."

How many ten-year-old spiritual herbs do you have?

Jiang Liu asked, "One Qi Refining Pill for five ten-year-old spiritual herbs, come quickly."

"You bought the blueprints for Qi Refining Pills?"

Li Dongze opened his eyes and looked at Jiang Liu, his face full of surprise.

"Extracted."

Jiang Liu urged, "Stop talking nonsense, are you going to change it or not?"

Are you sure you want to change it?

Li Dongze reminded him, "I saw it on the forum that the eighth level of Qi Refining unlocks a resource dungeon that produces a lot of materials; even ten-year-old spirit herbs are unwanted."

Jiang Liu: "??????"

Eighth level of Qi Refining?

I'm just one floor away from getting to the next one?

Chapter 18 Qi Refining Level 8

Jiang Liu was well aware of the value of resource dungeons in the game, and it was one of the dungeons he would run every day from the game's launch to its shutdown.

He became anxious as soon as he heard that the resource dungeon could be unlocked at the eighth level of Qi Refining.

This is a dungeon that refreshes daily; starting it a day earlier is always a bonus.

"Quickly, trade me in the game."

In the Immortal Cultivation Era, Jiang Liu sent Li Dongze a trade emoji, exchanging 5 Qi Refining Pills for 30 ten-year-old spiritual herbs.

A few minutes later.

He refined these 30 ten-year-old spiritual herbs into 14 Qi Refining Pills.

This is a huge profit!

Jiang Liu's expression changed, and with a determined look, he stepped down from his desk, went straight to the podium, and whispered to the homeroom teacher, "Teacher, I have something I want to say to the students, is that alright?"

What do you want to do?

The homeroom teacher looked at Jiang Liu with suspicion.

"Good thing."

Jiang Liu turned to face the whole class, took a deep breath, and said loudly, "I've got a blueprint for a Qi Refining Pill. One Qi Refining Pill can be exchanged for five ten-year-old spiritual herbs. Anyone interested, come and trade with me!"

His voice was loud and clear, echoing throughout the closed classroom, startling all the students who were cultivating, who all looked at him with surprise.

"Qi Refining Pill blueprints? Aren't those ridiculously expensive? Where did you get them?"

"What's the success rate of Qi Refining Pills? This rate is way too high."

"Five ten-year-old spiritual herbs, where are we supposed to get these?!"

"I have I have!"

If you can't afford to draw from the permanent pool, the only way to obtain spiritual herbs and materials is through story trials. However, most players are only at the first level of Qi Refining and can't even pass two levels of story trials.

In other words... even with the combined efforts of the entire class, Jiang Liu only managed to obtain 50 ten-year-old spiritual herbs, and that was only after two or three people pooled their resources together.

That's far too little. Li Dongze alone has almost done the work of an entire class...

Jiang Liu returned to his seat with a helpless expression and switched to the Immortal Cultivation Era to continue refining pills.

50 ten-year-old spiritual herbs, costing 10 Qi Refining Pills, yielded 27 Qi Refining Pills in return.

The quantity is still too small!

Jiang Liu scratched his head, thought for a moment, and then looked at the chat box in the lower left corner.

Compared to yesterday's quiet chat window, today's chat window is much more lively, especially the world chat section, where chat messages are flooding the screen.

He glanced at the list and saw that most of the posts were recruitment ads, in preparation for establishing a sect in the future. Only a small portion were chatting, and some people were posting information about magical artifacts to show off. It wasn't too chaotic, but there wasn't much useful information either.

Those who reached the fifth level of Qi Refining on the second day after the server opened were all wealthy players. No matter how outstanding their talent was, it was impossible for them to reach the fifth level of Qi Refining through cultivation alone.

There are so many players at the fifth level of Qi Refining that they're flooding the chat with messages. It just goes to show how many rich people there are in these three provinces.

In the chat box, the world section is for all players in the entire region. The four regions cover three provinces and hundreds of millions of players. If there were no restrictions on speaking and the need for spirit stones, it is estimated that no one could even see the messages clearly.

In addition to the world section, there is also a region section, which only shows the messages from players in the city where they are located. There are fewer players and fewer messages, probably because they are from the same city, and the messages are not as aggressive.

After all, it's not appropriate to start a fight online and then cross provincial borders to do it offline.

But it's different in the same city. If you really dare to curse, you can directly engage in offline PK with someone who has a bad temper. We're all cultivators and rich people, so who's afraid of who?

After hesitating for two seconds, Jiang Liu decided to send an anonymous message in the area bar.

[Anonymous]: 1 Qi Refining Pill for 5 ten-year-old spiritual herbs. I'm buying them all. Add me as a friend if you have any.

As soon as he said this, Jiang Liu saw his social media feed flashing wildly, with hundreds or even thousands of people adding him as a friend in an instant, making his scalp tingle.

Fortunately, he kept himself anonymous beforehand and hid all his personal information, otherwise he would have become famous in the city.

Within a minute, his social media feed was flooded with thousands of friend requests, and the number kept increasing, which startled him so much that he quickly turned off the friend requests.

That's insane! It's just exchanging pills, is it really that big of a deal?

He never imagined that people who could afford alchemy blueprints and exchange Qi Refining Pills for spiritual herbs would be so powerful. There must be many people who would want to curry favor with him and beg for a few Qi Refining Pills.

Online beggars exist even in low-quality mobile games, let alone in a cultivation-themed game.

Jiang Liu, still shaken, opened his friends list, added one person to trade with, and deleted them immediately after the transaction without even reading their messages.

With over 1,800 friend requests, he'll be busy for a while.

Add friends, trade, delete friends.

We're out of Qi Refining Pills.

After refining the pills, continue trading.

Repeating indefinitely.

As time went by, Jiang Liu's backpack swelled with more and more Qi Refining Pills, the quantity of which surprised him.

He had over 1,800 friends, and he resold 714 Qi Refining Pills!

I am!

What's the point of me cultivating anymore?!

Just use in-game currency to play!

This game can be played like this?

Enough said, let's eat first.