Master of Ten Thousand Foxes

Hu...

The fierce wind blew into the main hall.

Bai Mo sat behind the desk, fiddling with his Snow Warm Pill and Water Image Pill, comparing them to the pills documented in ancient texts.

"Did they beautify the illustration in these texts?"

After optimization, his Snow Warm Pill was the size of an egg, and the Water Image Pill was similar in size.

One was red, the other blue.

The pill recorded on the stone slab, produced by the Cyan Moon Pill Palace, though its color wasn’t clear in the simple sketch, had intricate water wave patterns on its surface, looking very high-end!

"Why doesn’t my pill have any patterns on the surface? It’s just bare?"

Bai Mo picked up his Water Image Pill, examining it from different angles.

"Maybe it’s because my pill doesn’t have proper Danpi?"

The Snow Warm Pill was developed from the foundation of amateur alchemists.

The Water Image Pill was developed based on the Chai Bai School’s Fake Pill.

Both follow unconventional paths, mainly relying on pill flesh to achieve functionality, with low requirements for Danpi.

Bai Mo only provided a shell to protect the pill flesh.

"Uh... I’ll need to research further."

Setting down the Water Image Pill, he glanced at the thick stack of copper plates nearby.

All of these were freshly unearthed from Fox Mountain. Bai Mo scanned them briefly, noticing a significant portion was related to Danpi.

Perhaps they had unearthed a section related to the Cyan Moon Pill Palace’s Danpi?

He picked up one, rubbed it, and began reading, but felt uneasy after just the first sentence.

"How do I translate this?

"Did the Ancient Immortal Dynasty dabble in this sort of thing too?"

Bai Mo considered himself fairly proficient in sequence linguistics, yet still felt perplexed.

He took a sip of hot tea, smacked his lips, furrowed his brows, and looked back at the copper plate.

"Nanyu Holy Land has just released their flagship Danpi Gift Box?

"Is that the gist of it?

"This flagship Danpi Gift Box from Nanyu is worth two Douben Origin Immortal Qi, with one hundred portions of Danpi in each box, each portion includes a support layer, structural layer, absorption layer, filter layer, thermal layer, strength layer, vein layer, pore wall... uh..."

Bai Mo’s expression turned odd as he continued reading.

[Nanyu Holy Land has simultaneously released a sub-flagship Danpi Gift Box. Its performance isn’t as extreme, offering better cost-effectiveness, available for just one Dou Immortal Qi]

[Pill Palace’s alchemists, attending the launch event with the marquis, didn’t dare focus on the flagship box but instead eyed the sub-flagship box]

[Everyone unanimously felt that, with the sub-flagship box in hand, pill packaging would be much easier, more convenient, and the quality of the finished pill could be significantly higher, slightly improving the success rate of alchemy...]

Bai Mo rubbed the copper plate.

"They... actually have a sub-flagship model?

"Could there even be a youth version? A version emphasizing cost-effectiveness?"

"Is this the divergence between ancient and modern times?"

[... The marquis wasn’t interested in the flagship model nor the sub-flagship model; she had her eyes on Nanyu Holy Land’s Black Iron Box]

[That box touts extreme cost-effectiveness; its performance is lackluster, but each box costs only one liter of Immortal Qi]

[The marquis was swayed by its price]

"Extreme cost-effectiveness?"

Bai Mo looked at his phone on the table, recognized the familiar terminology, unsure how to react for a moment.

[The manager from Nanyu Holy Land appeared to know the marquis and engaged in enthusiastic conversation, primarily introducing the sub-flagship Danpi Gift Box]

[Whilst showcasing their own product, she also compared competing products and parameters from Jasper Pool Holy Land, Book Pavilion Holy Land, Cyan Ink Holy Land, among other rivals, trying to persuade the marquis to place an order]

They actually have "competitors"?

They actually have "competing products"?

Bai Mo watched in astonishment as he continued reading the document.

[But the marquis was ruthless, exposing the manager’s rhetoric right to her face]

[Apparently, Danpi Gift Boxes update and iterate rapidly, with new technology emerging almost every ten years, and new products launching accordingly. Each newly launched product from each house has a ten-year lifecycle]

[The product Nanyu Holy Land just released is the latest; the Danpi Gift Boxes from Cyan Ink Holy Land and Book Pavilion Holy Land are old products launched eight years ago, reaching the end of their lifecycle, hence, not suitable for random comparison...]

They actually talk about "updates and iterations"?

They actually discuss "lifecycles"?

At this point, Bai Mo roughly understood.

"Similar to the modern consumer electronics market, the Ancient Immortal Dynasty’s Danpi industry is also a rapidly developing high-tech sector.

"Moreover, the market is highly mature."

Bai Mo skimmed this piece of literature, then tossed it aside to pick up the next.

While the industry situation in the Ancient Immortal Dynasty is quite intriguing, what’s more crucial is finding the method to refine Danpi!

He took the next copper plate in hand, scraping away the dirt.

[... The marquis somehow acquired a batch of old Danpi from a hundred years ago for us to practice with]

[My heavens, a hundred years ago I was still Sequence Six, a hundred years ago my great-grandson was still alive, now grass on my great-grandson’s grave is three feet tall]

[Where did the marquis find these ancient relics?]

Hmm?

Bai Mo awkwardly chuckled.

The prices of old model phones in the current world are indeed much cheaper.

Old model Danpi from the Ancient Immortal Dynasty would probably have their prices plummeting too?

It seems that the cost of materials isn’t high; it’s mainly the research cost that’s steep?

[... The marquis procured a batch of cost-effective Cyan Ink Gift Boxes from sixty years ago]

[We’re really at a loss]

[Danpi from sixty years ago, using them to package elixirs, the operational difficulty is simply too high, each packaging done with utmost caution, it’s truly a torment]

[The marquis claims it’s a generation divine skin, saying its stability isn’t much less than today’s Danpi Gift Box]

[She insists she was captivated by its stability, which is why she bought this particular Danpi]