Alchemy is a true test of one's personal ability and talent.

Even for a grand cultivator in the Golden Elixir stage, without the gift for alchemy, the success rate of producing elixirs would be very low.

A low success rate means losing money.

As the saying goes:

There are people who do business that risks their heads.

But no one does business that loses money.

To become an alchemist,

One needs not only talent

But also vast financial resources.

Without financial backing, no matter how talented,

Alchemy will remain out of reach.

This time, from the lake island, he bought a total of 30 sets of spiritual herbs and medicines for refining First Grade cultivation elixirs.

Each set costs six low-quality spirit stones, which is more than he earned in a month as an outer disciple of the Spirit Creek Sect.

His talent for alchemy was poor, with a success rate of less than 5% during his thirty-seven years in the Alchemy Hall.

Fortunately, back then, he used ordinary medicinal herbs without grade, so he didn't lose too much money.

Otherwise, he would have gone bankrupt in those thirty-seven years at the Alchemy Hall.

"I wonder how many auspicious clouds it would take to raise the success rate of refining First Grade elixirs to 100%?"

Guo Feilong first tried adding one auspicious cloud into the alchemy furnace.

Each batch would yield ten elixirs.

The success rate indicates how many real elixirs there are.

The rest are ineffective waste elixirs.

Moments later,

The first batch of alchemy was complete.

Guo Feilong released a stream of mystic power.

Ten elixirs flew out from the alchemy furnace.

Upon inspection,

Seven were successful.

Three were waste elixirs.

A First Grade cultivation elixir can sell for 3 low-quality spirit stones.

Seven First Grade cultivation elixirs would be 21 low-quality spirit stones.

The cost of this batch of elixirs was 6 low-quality spirit stones.

A net profit of 15 low-quality spirit stones.

He packed the 7 First Grade cultivation elixirs into a storage bag.

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Guo Feilong began refining the second batch of elixirs.

The second batch also used one auspicious cloud.

This time, the success rate was even better than the first batch.

Eight were successful.

Two were waste elixirs.

Next, he continued with the third, fourth, and fifth batches...

Each batch used one auspicious cloud.

The lowest success rate was 70%.

The highest was 90%.

He didn't use two auspicious clouds.

Because that would be a loss.

Even if two auspicious clouds yielded a 100% success rate, it would still only produce ten elixirs.

If divided into two batches,

Two batches could yield 14 elixirs.

Two and a half days later,

Guo Feilong finished refining thirty batches of elixirs.

He obtained a total of 241 First Grade cultivation elixirs.

With a total value of 723 low-quality spirit stones.

After deducting the cost of 180 low-quality spirit stones,

In less than three days, he earned a full 543 low-quality spirit stones.

Huge profits!

Absolute huge profits!

Cultivation elixirs are the most sought-after cultivation resources.

Describing them as in short supply is not an exaggeration.

However,

Selling so many cultivation elixirs at once

In Green Sun County is very difficult.

After all, apart from a few large immortal cultivation families with more spirit stones, the other small cultivation families in Green Sun County are very poor.

8000 miles southwest of Green Sun County, there is a cultivation market town, a small town established by the Spirit Creek Sect, with many shops trading cultivation resources.

Guo Feilong plans to sell the elixirs at a low price to the elixir shops there.

Only the elixir shops in the cultivation market can afford to buy so many elixirs at once.

But there's no rush now; he can wait a month or two before going.

The most urgent matter is still to marry and continue the family line.

When Guo Feilong emerged from the basement, it was just past noon outside. After taking a hot bath, he went to the main wife Su Xue's room.

Regardless of the time of day,

He engaged in a three-hour, eight-session life gene continuation research project with her.

Then he went to the second wife Wang Yuyan's room and engaged in a three-hour, six-session life gene continuation research project with her.

Seven or eight days later,

Matchmaker Wang introduced him to a pair of twin sisters.

The elder sister was named Zhao Xinran.

The younger sister was Zhao Xintong.

Their figures and appearances, taken individually, were about 8.5 out of 10 beauties.

But together, the effect was a 9.4 out of 10 beauty.

Beautiful twin sisters.

No man could resist them.

Unless he wasn't a normal man.

That day, he got married again.

And took two at once.

The townspeople enjoyed another free banquet, and many wished he could get married every day.

At night,

Guo Feilong lifted the red veils of his two new brides.

(Then two thousand words are omitted.)

Four hours later,

Guo Feilong lay on the bed, satisfied yet exhausted.

This is how life should be.

The twin sisters Zhao Xinran and Zhao Xintong were both ordinary people without spiritual roots, just like when he married Su Xue, each added 10 colorful auspicious clouds to the family fortune cauldron.

This was over three hundred times less than marrying Wang Yuyan, who had Earth Grade medium spiritual roots.

Only by marrying women with spiritual roots as wives and concubines could he gain more auspicious clouds.

Unfortunately, people with spiritual roots were too rare, and marrying them was a thousand times more difficult than marrying ordinary women.

Moreover, not all women with spiritual roots were beautiful.

If a woman wasn't beautiful, even if she had spiritual roots, he wouldn't marry her. He only married beautiful women, which was very important, extremely important.

Through his diligent efforts in life gene continuation research projects, his main wife Su Xue finally became pregnant.

The good news was that a few days after Su Xue became pregnant, the younger twin sister Zhao Xinran also became pregnant.

Then, half a month later, Wang Yuyan and the younger twin sister Zhao Xintong also became pregnant.

Immortal cultivators age slowly, while ordinary people age quickly.

Guo Feilong planned to refine Beauty Retaining Elixirs to keep his wives' appearances eternally youthful.

The Beauty Retaining Elixir is a First Grade elixir, and the main ingredient for alchemy is very expensive, costing 1000 low-quality spirit stones.

For some reason, the success rate for Beauty Retaining Elixirs is very low, even for highly skilled alchemy masters, the success rate is less than 10%.

Therefore, although the Beauty Retaining Elixir is only a First Grade elixir, its price is exorbitantly high, with a single one costing a low-quality spirit stone, and it's hard to find, with many noble family female cultivators unable to buy it even if they want to.

However, the main ingredient for refining the Beauty Retaining Elixir is not something that can be bought at will; it requires luck.

"Lucky, oh Lucky, when will you grow up and mature, so that I can travel quickly wherever I go."

Guo Feilong picked up Lucky, took out a spirit stone and a First Grade cultivation elixir, and fed them to it.

At this time, Lucky had grown to the size of an adult local dog, and Guo Feilong had used auspicious clouds to slightly improve Lucky's aptitude.

In the future, it might not be 100% certain to become a Ninth Rank spiritual beast, but becoming an Eighth Rank spiritual beast was still very hopeful.

To make it easier to find beautiful young girls as wives and concubines, Guo Feilong directly issued a notice in Yellow Rock Town and nearby towns,

As long as there was a woman who met the conditions and could marry him, he would give 2000 taels of silver as a bride price.

Money is indeed a good thing; once he raised the bride price,

For a long period afterward, several or even a dozen parents came every day, bringing their beautiful daughters for matchmaking.

If they had good figures and appearances, Guo Feilong agreed to them all.

For more than a month, he was a groom every day.

Unfortunately, among these more than thirty new wives, not one had spiritual roots; they were all ordinary women.

Previously, he thought his large courtyard was spacious, with many rooms, but now, having taken almost forty wives and concubines, Guo Feilong felt the courtyard was small, and there were too few rooms.

So he bought the nearby houses, expanded the buildings, and made sure there was a large courtyard that could accommodate at least a hundred wives and concubines and several hundred servants.

The house expansion was managed by the main wife, Su Xue.

Su Xue also took good care of her maternal family, letting her father, who was an accountant, take charge of the house expansion and renovation project.

An accountant managing house expansion would surely earn a lot.

In comparison, Guo Feilong didn't mind; after all, Su Xue's father was his father-in-law, so the benefits stayed within the family.

After breakfast that day, Guo Feilong gathered all 38 wives and concubines in the main hall.

"I will be away for a while; all major and minor matters at home will be decided by the main wife, Su Xue."

"If you encounter difficult issues, they will be decided by the second wife, Wang Yuyan."

In the cultivation world, no matter how many wives and concubines a man has, the most respected among them is the main wife, the legitimate wife.

Then come the two secondary wives, the second and third wives, and the rest are all concubines.

After instructing the household matters, Guo Feilong left Yellow Rock Town and headed towards the cultivation market town 8000 miles southwest.