Chapter 487 - 243: Fiend
To be honest, although Mu Yunzi spoke with great confidence, quite a few guests still showed signs of doubt, only they dared not voice it directly.
After all, he painted a glorious picture earlier, making everyone yearn for it, but the result after opening the furnace was just this?
Now he claims the pill is "half-finished," meaning he can still put it up for sale? No way, could it be that your Lingshu Pill Sect couldn’t swallow the embarrassment and made this up?
Mu Yunzi, however, ignored the skeptical looks from outside and continued speaking to himself: "According to my calculations, this pill must have been refined to this appearance within the first three hundred years; the following seven hundred years were entirely a waste of time. Fortunately, it was nurtured properly and hasn’t been ruined."
As he spoke, he infused a spell into the grayish pill, locking in the spirituality to prevent the loss of efficacy.
That gray-robed elder’s eyes were burning, "Mu Daoist Friend, you said it’s missing a breath? What’s it missing?"
"A breath of Nine Heavens Pure Spirit, or even a breath of Immortal Qi."
The gray-robed elder couldn’t help but shake his head and said, "Do we need to seek a celestial being from the heavenly court to descend and blow a breath on this ’Life Creation Pill’?"
"Mu Daoist Friend, just tell us how much efficacy it has left."
Mu Yunzi said with difficulty: "This kind of half-finished pill, if luck is good, can retain sixty to seventy percent efficacy; if luck is bad, only thirty to forty percent. I can’t really estimate, only state the upper and lower limits for my friends."
"As for the grade, although it doesn’t reach Immortal Pill quality, it is unquestionably a supreme-quality pill."
As soon as he said this, a chubby shopkeeper from the Celestial Human Treasure Pavilion smiled amiably and said, "Let’s go with the middle ground, consider it fifty percent, our pavilion wants this ’Life Creation Pill,’ Mu Zhenren, name your price."
Anyway, as long as they have the hype of this "Immortal Pill," they won’t worry about selling it for a good price.
Mu Yunzi was quite moved internally. From the perspective of someone prominent in the Alchemy Dao, something that hasn’t become a pill can only be considered as residue, although it still has certain research value; if the price is high enough, it’s not impossible to sell.
Despite this, Mu Yunzi hesitated on the surface: "This... after all, it’s the lifelong wish of the ancestor. I was thinking of nurturing this pill daily, hoping one day it might be fully refined into an Immortal Pill."
A mysterious woman dressed in a black gown and wearing a veiled hat from Beiming Mansion also spoke up: "Mu Zhenren, our mansion master is interested in this medicine, but no need to say much more. To show sincerity, our sect is willing to pay according to the specifications from the last purchase of the Nine Revolutions Life-extending Pill."
Mu Yunzi was instantly thrilled; last time, Beiming Mansion offered a top-grade Celestial Tier magical treasure nearly approaching supreme quality to buy this life-extending pill.
The chubby shopkeeper frowned slightly, with the price raised so high suddenly, he had to consider whether continuing to raise the price was worth it.
Several Zhenren from the three major sects exchanged glances and lost interest; after all, it was just a half-finished pill, not worth such a price.
Shangguan Quifeng naturally thought the same way; he even had an excuse ready, half-finished residue would probably not help the ancestor’s injury much.
The other guests were sighing repeatedly; how deep exactly were the pockets of Beiming Mansion? They dared to offer such a price for a half-finished pill.
Mu Yunzi coughed, "Your mansion master and our Pill Sect have known each other for many years; since the mansion master values the lifelong dedication of Miaoyi Ancestor highly, it seems today I have to part with love..."
Just when everyone thought the ownership of the pill was undisputed, the gray-robed elder suddenly stood up and said: "Wait!"
His sickly face showed slight indifference, "Mu Daoist Friend, I want to ask, if this pill is calculated with fifty percent efficacy, how many years can it extend life?"
Mu Yunzi pondered: "After all, it embodies the Dao of Life, and may extend life by twenty to thirty years."
"But what’s more precious is that this pill should have a ’growth’ effect. For cultivators on the brink of their life limits, it’s wonderfully unmatched; after consuming it, it is like a dead tree blooming in spring, the benefits can’t be detailed in just a few words."
The guests secretly cursed: The old fox is raising the price!
The gray-robed elder’s face didn’t look good either, but he still said: "I have a Spirit Root in my hand, called the ’Sun Crow Blood Tree,’ every hundred years it can bear twelve ’Golden Crow Sunward Fruits,’ which can be used to refine various Sun-related Spirit Pills."
"Its value is precious beyond words, as you can imagine. This fruit ranks among the rarest in top-grade Spirit Fruits, not to mention having this tree in hand, the Lingshu Pill Sect can count it as a money tree in the future."
"The value of this tree certainly exceeds that of a supreme Spirit Pill; if I use this tree in exchange, I ask Mu Daoist Friend to compensate me with some difference, as I don’t want to suffer a loss."
Mu Yunzi was inwardly delighted upon hearing this; each family’s wealth truly seemed thicker than the other. Of course, he still looked awkwardly at the black-clad woman from Beiming Mansion:
"I have also heard of the ’Sun Crow Blood Tree,’ although just an upper-tier Spirit Root, can’t compare to the ancient ’Golden Crow Fusang Tree,’ but at least it can match the price of two supreme pills."
The black-clad woman had a pitch-black coffin standing behind her; the person inside was the highest cultivator present from Beiming Mansion for this occasion.
The woman consulted secretly with the elder inside the coffin, and finally, she regrettably shook her head at Mu Yunzi:
"If it were a complete pill, even if it wasn’t the legendary Immortal Pill, we would be set on acquiring it this time. But it’s just a half-finished pill, I’m afraid we can’t offer a higher price."
Mu Yunzi felt a bit regretful upon hearing this; couldn’t you just raise it a bit more? That way, I wouldn’t have to compensate this old fellow surnamed Yang with the difference.