13 Making Money To Support Ones Distasteful Habi (1/2)
Jam woke up, and started organizing his thoughts. Currently he was internally debating on what to do first. Should he cultivate or practice his secondary occupations? Eventually, he decided on practicing alchemy. Practicing Alchemy would earn him some cultivation resources and money to buy more formulas and materials at the same time.
After deciding on practicing alchemy, Jam left his house and headed towards the Alchemy Division. He talked to the receptionist there, and borrowed one of the free public rooms for alchemy.
Jam didn't have any money, much less a cauldron; he could only resort to practicing alchemy publicly. Every Division of the academy would have a section reserved for their lowest ranking members to practice for free. The only ”drawback” was that you would be practicing out in the open and others could see your work.
To the lowest ranking disciples of the divisions, it was less of a drawback and more of a blessing. Afterall, to practice any of the secondary occupations privately, one would need to have a ton of money. To give some perspective, even the shittiest cauldron suitable for alchemy, would cost one thousand spirit stones.
Jam recieved a ticket from the receptionist in the Alchemy Division, which led him to his cauldron and specified that he only had two hours to practice before needing to pick up another ticket. Jam gave his thanks and left immediately.
Soon, he was in front of a cauldron. The cauldron was so similar to the one Jam used in his Alchemy potential determining test, that he almost wanted to call it a clone. Jam began concoct some Energy Gathering Pills. At this point it was the only recipe he knew, so it wasn't like he had a choice. When Jam was receiving items from the Division Heads, Latoya gave Jam 100 ingredient sets for the Energy Gathering Pill.
Jam passed his alchemy test with perfect Energy Gathering Pills; it would be an understatement to call him a master for this specific Pill Recipe. So, as Jam began concocting the pills, he never failed once, in fact he was producing perfect pills faster after every attempt he made. When Jam started pill concocting, it would take him three minutes to produce ten perfect pills from one set of ingredients. By the time he finished using all 100 sets of ingredients, he could concoct a set of ten perfect pills, from start to finish, in less than a minute.
Jam was too focused on his pill concocting to notice the hoard of people surrounding and watching him work. When he did notice them, he thought it was because he had gone over his allotted time, however, his internal clock suggested otherwise. All cultivators that had even an iota of energy in their Dantian, would have an instinctive sense for time; they knew what time it was, from the year, all the way down to the second.
”???” Jam gave these people puzzled looks. Jam learned not to vocalize his thoughts, but they still existed. Currently Jam was thinking 'These nosy busybodies better fuck off.'
No one said anything to him, and Jam had finished using his 100 sets of ingredients, so he left and headed to the receptionist again. Jam might not have realized it, but his pill concocting of the Energy Gathering Pill was so good, other Rank 1 Alchemists would learn a lot, just by watching him.
”Hey, where can I sell pills?”
”Oh, I can take them. What pills do you want to sell?”
”Energy Gathering Pills! I have 1000 pills. How much are they worth?”
”The Energy Gathering Pills are valued at 15 spirit stones a piece, so 1000 sho...” The receptionist didn't finish her sentence as she examined one of the pills, which Jam gave her.
”Are all your pills of this quality?!”
”Yep.”
”These are perfect Energy Gathering Pills! If you really do have 1000 of them, I'll give you 50,000 spirit stones for all of them.” While the receptionist had seen perfect Energy Gathering Pills before, those that sold them to her were all high ranked alchemists. She didn't expect an Alchemy Disciple to produce pills of this quality.
”Cool. I want to know the price for one set of Energy Gathering Pill herbs, and the price of a cauldron.”
”One set of Energy Gathering Pill herbs costs five spirit stones, and caldrons range from 3,000-1,000,000. You should know that 1,000,000 is the hard limit for the Alchemy Division. If you want a cauldron worth more than 1,000,000 spirit stones, you should go to the Refining Division.”