Purple Mist Dao Master

Chapter 717 - 439 Primordial Pill!

It was night.Yan Chuan was cultivating the "Nine Yang Divine Skill."

In his hands was no longer an ’Essence Stone’ but a ’Primordial Pill.’

This was something Yan Chuan obtained from Wuzhiqi after the death of Fu Manduo. There were three in total, and one of them had its essence largely consumed by Fu Manduo, making it equivalent to just over two pills.

"Primordial Pill!"

"What a treasure!"

Yan Chuan sat cross-legged, cultivating smoothly.

’Primordial Pill’ is rare and precious, typically used for cultivation only in the Innate Realm.

Qi cultivation at the Innate Realm requires inhaling and exhaling vast amounts of essence from heaven and earth. The essence contained in each Essence Stone is too little. Not to mention the space occupied and the inconvenience of carrying hundreds or thousands of catties of Essence Stones at a time, just the effort of replacing one stone after another drastically lowers the cultivation efficiency.

Based on this.

Due to the drawbacks of Essence Stones.

In the Mountain and Sea Realm, a genius developed the ’Primordial Pill’ by studying the traits of ’Essence Stones’ and ’Heaven and Earth Essence.’

The ’Primordial Pill’ is named as such because it is the product of combining pill, tool, talisman, and formation, and its refining method has long since spread throughout the Mountain and Sea Realm. It is not a secret recipe and is quite transparent.

However, for an individual or Loose Cultivator, it’s challenging to master all four aspects of pill, tool, talisman, and formation, making it difficult to refine ’Primordial Pills’ alone. At least four skilled masters must collaborate to stably produce ’Blank Primordial Pills,’ which usually sell for around 1,000 catties of Essence Stones.

To stably produce ’Blank Primordial Pills’—

Either a Loose Cultivator gathers four master craftsmen of pill, tool, talisman, and formation.

Or a small power assembles four master craftsmen of pill, tool, talisman, and formation.

Otherwise, it requires a wealthy talent pool from a major power.

Among them, large powers have numerous Innate Realm members. The ’Blank Primordial Pills’ they produce are almost entirely consumed internally, distributed as benefits to their lower-level Innate Realm members—

"The ’Blank Primordial Pill’ sells for 1,000 Essence Stones. A First-Rank Divine General can fill it with essence from 6,000 catties of Essence Stones, making one Primordial Pill have a total cost of 7,000 catties of Essence Stones, but its market price is 10,000 catties of Essence Stones."

This is the ’Primordial Pill,’ strictly speaking, a ’One-Pattern Primordial Pill.’

The ’One-Pattern Primordial Pill’ is the most common Primordial Pill on the market, valued at 10,000 catties of Essence Stones. It typically takes a First-Rank Divine General four hours each day for a whole month to fill it completely—

7,000 catties of Essence Stones’ financial cost.

hours of time cost.

Theoretically, a First-Rank Divine General refining one Primordial Pill can earn a profit of 3,000 catties of Essence Stones.

In a month, 3,000 catties.

In a year, 36,000 catties.

Thus, it can be roughly estimated the income of a First-Rank Divine General, vastly different from that of the Postnatal Realm.

But in reality—

"Major powers’ ’Blank Primordial Pills’ are produced and consumed internally. Only small powers, makeshift teams, can’t completely digest their ’Blank Primordial Pills,’ allowing them to flow out so that Independent Divine Generals can obtain ’Blank Primordial Pills’ for processing."

Not just anyone can undertake this work.

Without a channel to obtain ’Blank Primordial Pills,’ one can’t earn a stable monthly profit of 3,000 catties of Essence Stones.

Without a channel—

For example, Jiang Bianliu.

For example, Huang Wuniang.

They are suffering!

They’re still using Essence Stones for cultivation, with low efficiency. This is one of the fundamental reasons for their slow progress in strength.

However, to make them spend 10,000 catties of Essence Stones to get a Primordial Pill containing essence equivalent to 6,000 catties of Essence Stones is a 4,000 cattie disparity. Even though efficiency increases, the loss of Essence Stone essence is real and substantial.

Essence Stone cultivation.

Primordial Pill cultivation.

The latter is akin to spending money to buy time and efficiency. In fact, many lower-level Innates are reluctant. They usually only have one or two Primordial Pills, especially used for closed-door cultivation and breakthroughs. Loose Cultivators have it rough, needing to stretch every last piece of Essence Stone as far as it can go.

Even a Divine General like Fu Manduo from the Fu Family only carried three ’One-Pattern Primordial Pills.’ Of course, her total wealth isn’t just that amount, but having exchanged Essence Stones for Primordial Pills, she would likely carry them with her. Most likely, she only had three.

She wouldn’t necessarily indulge in extravagance to cultivate with ’Primordial Pills’ around the clock.

This is the Primordial Pill.

The default is the most common ’One-Pattern Primordial Pill.’

Actually, above that, based on the cultivator’s level, there are five more grades—

"One-Pattern Primordial Pill: Market price 10,000 catties of Essence Stones; Cost 6,000+1,000+First-Rank Divine General 1 month."

"Two-Pattern Primordial Pill: Market price 20,000 catties of Essence Stones, cost 12,000+1,000+Second-Rank Divine General 1 month."

"Three-Pattern Primordial Pill: Market price 30,000 catties of Essence Stones, cost 18,000+1,000+Third-Rank Divine General 1 month."

"Four-Pattern Primordial Pill: Market price 40,000 catties of Essence Stones, cost 24,000+1,000+Fourth-Rank Divine General 1 month."

"Five-Pattern Primordial Pill: Market price 50,000 catties of Essence Stones, cost 30,000+1,000+Fifth-Rank Divine General 1 month."

"Six-Pattern Primordial Pill: Market price 100,000 catties of Essence Stones, cost 36,000+1,000+Martial Arts Realm+Sixth Rank Divine General 1 month."

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Earning resources at the Innate Realm is both easy and hard, requiring strength, background, or at least one of them.

Or having a treasure—

"My Fifth-Rank ’Gathering Treasure Basin’ may seem unremarkable, but it easily accrues interest of 100 catties of Essence Stones daily. Over a month, that’s 3,600 catties, more than what a First-Rank Divine General earns by laboriously refining a First-Rank Primordial Pill!"

Compared to the profit of refining Primordial Pills, and the earning speed of a First-Rank Divine General, one realizes just how wonderful the ’Fifth-Rank Treasure Bowl’ is.

However.

Yan Chuan, operating at Seventh Realm Peak with "Nine Yang Divine Skill," can refine nearly a hundred catties of Essence per day, roughly matching the daily interest of the ’Fifth-Rank Treasure Bowl.’

But by using ’Primordial Pills’ for cultivation, he can refine 200 catties of Essence daily, in terms of quantity, and in terms of value—