Guo Feilong completed the transaction with the other party, storing 8,860 low-grade Spirit Stones in his storage bag, feeling extremely pleased.

After deducting the cost of 2,160 low-grade Spirit Stones, he earned 6,700 low-grade Spirit Stones in eight days of alchemy, averaging 840 low-grade Spirit Stones per day.

Previously, he had been an Outer Disciple at the Spirit Creek Sect for 100 years.

His monthly income averaged 5 low-grade Spirit Stones, which amounted to 60 low-grade Spirit Stones a year.

Six hundred over ten years.

Six thousand over a hundred years.

In just eight days of alchemy, he earned what he used to make in 100 years.

It's like someone with a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan.

120,000 yuan a year.

1.2 million yuan over ten years.

12 million yuan over 100 years.

For any ordinary person, suddenly acquiring 12 million yuan would make them quite wealthy.

Of course, being able to earn so many Spirit Stones in eight days of alchemy was all thanks to the Auspicious Clouds.

With the Auspicious Clouds, he could easily refine elixirs using common alchemy techniques.

Without the Auspicious Clouds, let alone refining Third Grade elixirs.

Even refining First Grade cultivation elixirs, he might only produce three or four pills out of ten furnaces, resulting in a huge loss.

Guo Feilong asked the servant girl disciple, "By the way, do you have any spirit herbs and medicines for refining Beauty Retaining Pills?"

As a service staff in a pill shop, she must know what spirit herbs, medicines, and elixirs are available in the shop.

The servant girl disciple thought for a moment and said, "I think there are still two sets of spirit herbs and medicines for Beauty Retaining Pills, I'll go check for you."

The servant girl disciple left and quickly returned.

She said, "There are indeed two sets."

Guo Feilong was delighted, "Then I'll buy two sets of Beauty Retaining Pills and 200 sets of spirit herbs and medicines for Third Grade cultivation elixirs."

The main ingredient for Beauty Retaining Pills alone cost 1,000 Spirit Stones, and with other spirit herbs and medicines, the cost per furnace after a 10% discount was 1,350 low-grade Spirit Stones.

Two furnaces of Beauty Retaining Pills cost 2,700 low-grade Spirit Stones.

Plus 100 furnaces of Third Grade cultivation elixirs for 2,160.

The 8,860 low-grade Spirit Stones he just acquired were reduced by 4,860 low-grade Spirit Stones.

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Although Beauty Retaining Pills are only First Grade elixirs, their success rate is extremely low.

Even for a master alchemist, producing ten or eight pills out of a hundred furnaces is considered good, with a success rate of less than 10%.

As for alchemists of lower levels, whether they can produce Beauty Retaining Pills at all is really up to luck.

The difficulty in producing Beauty Retaining Pills has led to their high price despite being First Grade elixirs.

A single Beauty Retaining Pill can fetch a high price in Spirit Stones, often unavailable for purchase, and those who can buy them are considered lucky.

If auctioned, a Beauty Retaining Pill could go for thirty to forty thousand low-grade Spirit Stones, which is normal.

Back in his inn room, Guo Feilong began refining Beauty Retaining Pills, knowing that the main ingredients are rarely available, and who knows when he could buy them again.

So, when refining the first furnace of Beauty Retaining Pills, Guo Feilong used three Auspicious Clouds.

The result was four successful pills and six failed ones.

This made Guo Feilong feel a pang of regret, wishing he had used more Auspicious Clouds.

At the same time, he was relieved he didn't use just one Auspicious Cloud for refining the Beauty Retaining Pills.

Otherwise, he might not have even gotten one pill, let alone four.

Auspicious Clouds only increase the success rate of alchemy, not guarantee it.

To achieve a high success rate, more Auspicious Clouds are needed.

When refining the second furnace of Beauty Retaining Pills, Guo Feilong used five Auspicious Clouds, resulting in a full batch of ten Beauty Retaining Pills.

In the Xiaoye Village market, there are three auction houses, one belonging to the Spirit Creek Sect, and the other two to two other large Immortal Cultivator associations, with more influence than the Spirit Creek Sect and branches in many places.

Guo Feilong changed his tiger mask to a wolf mask and entered the first-floor business hall of the Spirit Creek Sect auction house, where he was received by a servant girl disciple.

When he mentioned wanting to auction Beauty Retaining Pills, the servant girl disciple immediately led him to the office of Zhao Dezhang, the steward in charge of the auction house, on the second floor.

Zhao Dezhang appeared to be in his thirties, with a Qi Refining ninth-level cultivation, very tall, at least 1.9 meters, and robust, likely having practiced some body refining technique.

In this cultivation world, cultivation stage is cultivation stage, and divine powers, spells, and techniques are divine powers, spells, and techniques.

Body refining cultivators treat their physical form as a spiritual instrument for cultivation.

Powerful body refining cultivators can resist attacks from spiritual instruments and sacred treasures with their bare hands.

At the same cultivation stage, a body refining cultivator can contend with three or four non-body refining cultivators simultaneously, making them very formidable.

However, everything in the world has its pros and cons.

Body refining cultivators consume mystic power very quickly during combat.

Once a body refining cultivator runs low on mystic power during a fight, their physical defense and strength will significantly decrease.

At that point, they become easy to kill.

"Please have a seat, fellow cultivator."

Zhao Dezhang picked up the teapot and poured a cup of tea for both himself and Guo Feilong, saying, "Our Spirit Creek Sect auction house charges a 10% commission on the final auction price."

"Beauty Retaining Pills are rare elixirs, and we will use the Spirit Creek Sect's connections to promote them for ten days, attracting more people to the auction."

"What do you think?"

Guo Feilong nodded, "That's fine."

He then handed over three Beauty Retaining Pills to Zhao Dezhang, who also issued him a certificate for auctioning the Beauty Retaining Pills.

With this certificate, he could collect the Spirit Stones from the auction of the Beauty Retaining Pills.

The Spirit Creek Sect does not probe into the true identity of auction item sellers, nor do they commit murder for wealth.

Even if an ordinary person brings a treasure to the Spirit Creek Sect auction house, the sect will settle the account without shortchanging a single Spirit Stone.

For Qi Refining stage cultivators, tens of thousands of Spirit Stones is a significant fortune, but for the Spirit Creek Sect, which owns territories spanning dozens of countries, it's a mere drop in the ocean, and they won't let their disciples or elders break the rules.

That day, the news of Beauty Retaining Pills being auctioned in Xiaoye Village in ten days spread rapidly to all counties in the Kingdom Wu.

In the Kingdom Wu's thirty-seven counties and over two thousand districts, there are no fewer than two hundred sects and cultivation families with Foundation Establishment stage cultivators.

Beauty Retaining Pills hold unparalleled allure for the heavenly daughters in these sects and families with Foundation Establishment stage cultivators, as who wouldn't want eternal youth?

In less than a day, many female cultivators arrived in Xiaoye Village, including a Foundation Establishment stage female lead, appearing around twenty-two or twenty-three years old, a heavenly daughter from a family who succeeded in Foundation Establishment before thirty-five.

Even if she could fix her appearance at thirty, it would be better than growing old and becoming an ugly old woman.

In fact, the appearance and physique of Immortal Cultivators also transform and rejuvenate with breakthroughs in major cultivation stages and extended life spans.

For instance, a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator nearing 500 years old, appearing seventy or eighty years old, will transform into an eighteen or nineteen-year-old appearance upon breaking through to the Golden Elixir stage, gaining a lifespan of two to three thousand years.

Then, as they approach the end of their lifespan, their appearance and physique will age again.

This is why many high-level cultivators, truly over a thousand or even several thousand years old, appear to be in their teens or twenties.

Relying on breakthroughs to regain youth is not a long-term solution; only by taking Beauty Retaining Pills can one fix their appearance and physique.

After regaining a youthful appearance and physique, many high-level cultivators' first action is to obtain a Beauty Retaining Pill to maintain their youth.

Although Beauty Retaining Pills are not high-grade elixirs, they are in high demand.

In the following days in Xiaoye Village market.

A large number of cultivators arrived daily, mostly female cultivators.

Guo Feilong strolled through the streets of Xiaoye Village, seeing many beautiful female cultivators, including a few Foundation Establishment stage female cultivators.

He couldn't help but think, if he could marry so many beautiful female cultivators, how much Auspicious Clouds would the Family Fortune Cauldron produce?