Chapter 134: Chapter 39: Raking in a Fortune

“Transformation Pill?”

Ji Feng’s body stiffened, then he put on an innocent smile:

“The Transformation Pill is used for a Demon’s Transformation. We Cultivators rarely have a use for it. May I ask why you are inquiring about it, Senior Brother?”

Yang Jing gestured toward his three disciples and said:

“Once this Insect Extermination Bell business gets bigger, it will inevitably take up a great deal of our cultivation time. Under the Sect’s rules, we can’t hire Miscellaneous Task disciples. Therefore, the best choice is to use Transformation Pills to help them take on human form and manage the business.”

Ji Feng slowly let out a breath. ’As long as he hasn’t discovered my identity as a Demon, it’s fine.’

“Speaking of which, some of the Sect’s True Disciples also help Demons with their Transformation. The Transformation Pill is a highly sensitive item, sold only at the Alchemy Hall and restricted to Demons registered with the Household Affairs Hall. Furthermore, the pill isn’t allowed to leave the Alchemy Hall—the Transformation must be completed in a secret chamber there.”

Yang Jing nodded. He was going to this extra trouble so that his three disciples could move about openly within the Sect in human form.

In their current Demon forms, their labor was being wasted.

“The Transformation Pill is a Tier Two Spiritual Pill, after all. It’s not cheap, costing fifteen hundred Spirit Stones per pill.”

Ji Feng said.

The Transformation Pill he had used for his own Transformation was only obtained because his aptitude was outstanding. His clan had exhausted every means to scrape together the Spirit Stones and had asked an ancestor, who had a Spirit Contract with a True Disciple, to purchase it for him.

Ji Feng was so eager to earn Spirit Stones precisely to repay his clan.

Aside from special Tier Two Spiritual Pills like the Foundation Establishment Pill, the price of most Tier Two Elixirs ranged from five hundred to three thousand Spirit Stones.

As an Elixir suitable only for Demons, its high price was primarily due to its sensitive nature.

Yang Jing was unconcerned. ’It’s only forty-five hundred Spirit Stones. As long as the payment for the second batch of Insect Extermination Bells comes through, I can easily earn that amount.’

Seeing that his identity had not been exposed, Ji Feng slowly breathed a sigh of relief. After calming his mind, he once again summoned his Five Elements True Fire and activated the Restrictions within the Qianyang Tripod.

Since it was his first time using an Artifact Refining Tripod, he didn’t get overconfident. He took only five taels of Iron Essence, melted it with his Five Elements True Fire, and, with the tripod’s assistance, shaped the molten iron into an Artifact Embryo for an Insect Extermination Bell.

Previously, Ji Feng could have refined two Artifact Embryos at most in one go.

But with the assistance of the Qianyang Tripod, he easily refined five Artifact Embryos and still had plenty of energy left.

He tried a few more times and determined that his limit was twelve Artifact Embryos. Any more, and the resulting Artifact Embryos would be Substandard, with tolerances that were too far off.

Although the two steps of inscribing the Restrictions and the Re-Fire process remained, Ji Feng roughly estimated that his efficiency at refining Insect Extermination Bells had increased nearly fivefold.

The cost of the Qianyang Tripod would be earned back in no time at all.

After that, Ji Feng threw himself heart and soul into the work of refining the Insect Extermination Bells. It was a good thing his Five Elements True Fire was his natural Talent; controlling it conserved far more Magical Power than other forms of Magic, which was the only way he could sustain such high-intensity Artifact Refining.

「Two days later.」

Yang Jing picked up an Insect Extermination Bell, inspected it for a moment, and nodded in satisfaction.

Ji Feng’s two days of rushed work had produced a full four hundred and twenty Insect Extermination Bells, all of uniform quality, without a single Substandard piece among them.

He immediately used his Sect Jade Token to contact the Miscellaneous Task disciples who had placed orders.

In almost no time at all, Guo Bao appeared at the doorway, panting for breath.

Yang Jing was a little surprised. Given where Guo Bao lived, he shouldn’t have been able to get here so quickly.

“Don’t laugh, Junior Martial Uncle Yang. I’ve been waiting outside the valley for the past two days. I didn’t dare leave for a moment.”

Guo Bao explained.

The popularity of the Insect Extermination Bell had exceeded his wildest imagination. After Guo Bao demonstrated the bell in the Spirit Fields, more than thirty Miscellaneous Task disciples immediately wanted to buy one. Those orders alone accounted for more than half his stock. Afterward, another twenty or so Miscellaneous Task disciples came knocking, asking to purchase one.

With such astonishing profits on the line, how could Guo Bao sit still? He had immediately brought his bedroll and camped outside the valley, braving the elements, all so he could be the first to get his hands on the new batch of Insect Extermination Bells.

Yang Jing handed fifty Insect Extermination Bells to Guo Bao.

Guo Bao counted them carefully, then immediately handed fifteen hundred Spirit Stones to Yang Jing.

“Junior Martial Uncle Yang, could you possibly sell me a few more? Once I take these fifty back, they’ll sell out immediately, and I’ll have no more stock.”

Yang Jing thought for a moment:

“I can give you thirty more at most.”

Guo Bao didn’t dare to haggle. He joyfully paid for the additional bells and stored all eighty of them in his Storage Bag.

Before long, the other Miscellaneous Task disciples also arrived as quickly as they could. Seeing that Guo Bao had gotten there first, they beat their chests and stomped their feet in frustration.

They had ordered fewer Insect Extermination Bells, and their stock had sold out on the spot during their demonstrations.

’That old scoundrel Guo Bao ordered the most on the first day, and now he’s the first one here again. He’s going to make an absolute killing!’

In what felt like an instant, all four hundred and twenty Insect Extermination Bells were sold. The Miscellaneous Task disciples were eager to rush back and exchange the bells for Spirit Stones, but Yang Jing stopped them.

“Everyone, thanks to the Insect Extermination Bells, the least you’ve earned today is forty or fifty Spirit Stones, while the most successful among you have earned several hundred—and this is just from a few days’ work. Although our Five Elements True Spirit Sect is peaceful, it’s inevitable that some will grow green with envy. If you remain as unguarded as you always have, you might just lose your lives before you even know what hit you.”

The Miscellaneous Task disciples present were startled, a new sense of caution dawning on them.

“Thank you for the reminder, Junior Martial Uncle Yang. We will be sure to be more careful and not flaunt our wealth.”

Watching the Miscellaneous Task disciples depart cautiously, Yang Jing gave the now-stuffed Storage Bag a satisfying heft in his hand.

Now that he had warned the disciples to be discreet, and given how little notice Miscellaneous Task disciples generally attracted within the Five Elements True Spirit Sect, the existence of the Insect Extermination Bell business should remain under wraps for a while longer.

“Eighteen hundred and ninety. I’ll round it up for you to nineteen hundred. Junior Brother Ji, these Spirit Stones are yours.”

Ji Feng’s hand trembled slightly as he placed the nineteen hundred Spirit Stones into his own Storage Bag. He realized that ever since he started working with Senior Brother Yang Jing, Spirit Stones were starting to feel more and more like just a number.

In the past, he wouldn’t have dared to dream of earning nineteen hundred Spirit Stones in just two days.

As a Tier One Middle Grade Artifact Refiner, he considered a net profit of forty to fifty Spirit Stones a month to be quite good. If he failed to sell a Magical Artifact he had crafted, he might even end up losing money.

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“This is the appeal of a Blue Ocean Market.”

Even a Tier Two Upper Grade Artifact Refiner crafting on commission—without needing to gather their own Spiritual Materials—would still take about ten days to refine a single Spiritual Artifact. Their monthly income would only be one or two thousand Spirit Stones, and even then, they weren’t guaranteed to receive enough orders each month.

By relying on the vast market within the Five Elements True Spirit Sect, Yang Jing’s monthly income now far surpassed what he had earned during his time with the Profound Carp Association.

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