Chapter 281: Chapter 280 Potential Points, 20 Million! (Please Subscribe)
Why say that?
In the association, the price of a low-grade True Qi Pill is 100,000 Contribution Points, which can provide 100,000 Potential Points.
A top-grade True Qi Pill is valued at 1.2 million Contribution Points, although it is very rare to find one.
According to the price calculation, a top-grade True Qi Pill should provide at least 1.2 million Potential Points.
In reality, it only provides one million.
"It seems that top-grade True Qi Pills have a premium price."
Chen Fan thought.
On the one hand, top-grade True Qi Pills are indeed difficult to refine. Even if the alchemists in the association have mastered alchemy to perfection, the probability of refining top-grade pills is only about twenty percent. If you count the pill formation rate, it’s even lower. Rarity makes it precious, which is understandable.
On the other hand, and more importantly, the effect.
A few days ago, Xia Tian, who came for the assessment, mentioned that a low-grade True Qi Pill can only restore 50 True Qi, while a top-grade True Qi Pill can restore 1000. Moreover, the restoration speed of the latter is more than ten times faster than the former.
Time is life, especially in combat.
Whoever restores True Qi faster and more, has a greater chance of winning.
Therefore, it is not difficult to understand why the price of top-grade True Qi Pills is much higher than that of low-grade True Qi Pills.
"One million points, so be it."
Chen Fan accepted the reality.
Anyway, the True Qi Pills he was about to refine would be of top-grade, even celestial-grade quality.
These two bottles of True Qi Pills must not be wasted.
He poured the remaining dozens of pills into his mouth.
He glanced at his Potential Points, which had increased by nearly twenty million.
"It’s time to start refining True Qi Pills."
Chen Fan put down the bottle and placed the prepared medicinal herbs into two Alchemy Furnaces.
He started refining.
The facts were just as he expected.
Even refining two furnaces of pills simultaneously wasn’t too difficult for him at the moment. He was still quite at ease.
"It seems I can add another Alchemy Furnace."
Chen Fan muttered to himself, "Once I finish refining this batch of herbs, I’ll ask the president to add another Alchemy Furnace."
The Beast Tide could erupt at any moment; he had to quickly improve his strength.
It took him longer than expected to refine a single celestial-grade True Qi Pill.
It took forty-five minutes in total before the two Alchemy Furnaces emitted a crisp sound, indicating that the pills were ready.
"Good thing I refined two furnaces together, otherwise the efficiency would have been halved."
Chen Fan felt relieved.
If he refined three furnaces at once, it would have taken fifteen minutes per furnace.
Although it seemed as efficient as refining Qi Blood Pills before, the Potential Points gained from the two were worlds apart.
Chen Fan opened the Alchemy Furnace, and immediately a rich elixir incense several times stronger than before filled the entire Alchemy Room.
Two furnaces, twenty pills, five celestial-grade True Qi Pills, and fifteen top-grade True Qi Pills, just as expected.
Chen Fan picked up a hot True Qi Pill and put it into his mouth.
[Consumed a top-grade True Qi Pill, Potential Points increased by 4 million!]
"Four million?"
Chen Fan smiled.
This is fine, isn’t it?
If a top-grade True Qi Pill can restore 1000 True Qi, then a top-grade True Qi Pill can restore 4000, right?
True Qi, which is 40,000 True Qi Value. Even he only had a little over 30,000 True Qi in his meridians now.
"This kind of quality True Qi Pill should be for True Essence Realm Martial Artists." Chen Fan looked at the celestial-grade True Qi Pill beside him. "Let’s try this one."
He picked up a celestial-grade True Qi Pill.
Like the Celestial-grade Qi Blood Pill, the surface of the elixir had a film, one red and one gold.
Under the light, it shimmered beautifully.
"No matter how nice it looks, it’s still meant to be eaten."
Chen Fan popped a celestial-grade True Qi Pill into his mouth and swallowed it with a gulp.
Before he could fully savor it, information flashed in his mind.
[Consumed a celestial-grade True Qi Pill, Potential Points increased by 20 million!]
"Twenty million points!"
Chen Fan couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
If the Potential Points of a celestial-grade True Qi Pill had exceeded ten million, he would have been very satisfied.
Considering the relatively high probability of celestial-grade True Qi Pills appearing at thirty percent.
In the end, each contained twenty million Potential Points.
"One furnace of True Qi Pills, ten pills, three celestial-grade True Qi Pills, yielding 60 million Potential Points, plus the remaining seven top-grade True Qi Pills with 28 million Potential Points, totaling close to 90 million! Round it up, and it’s nearly a hundred million!"
Chen Fan was shaken.
He glanced at the Potential Points necessary for his next body enhancement, one hundred million.
A few days ago, when he was clearing meridians, one hundred million Potential Points seemed insurmountable.
Now, it looked like a matter of refining one furnace of True Qi Pills.
And he was refining two furnaces simultaneously now!
"Hiss..."
Thinking of this, Chen Fan gasped.
Even if each subsequent body enhancement required ten times the previous Potential Points, it seemed like he could enhance two or three times at once?
After all, one hundred billion Potential Points is just a matter of refining a hundred furnaces of True Qi Pills.
The herbs he had on hand were down to seventy-six sets, which seemed a bit low, but let’s not forget, there were still ten thousand sets on their way.
A thousand sets should arrive by tomorrow!
That equaled a thousand billion Potential Points!
Of course, time would be necessary.
If he refined three furnaces simultaneously, it meant one furnace every fifteen minutes, four furnaces an hour.
Even if he worked non-stop twenty-four hours a day without any mistakes, he could only refine 96 furnaces, consuming 96 sets of herbs.
That’s only a tenth of the daily supply from the headquarters.
"Time, it’s all about time..."
Chen Fan sighed lightly.
This is precisely what he was most short of.
If he could stretch one minute into two, it would be great.
"Forget it, better not fantasize about such things and continue refining pills."
Chen Fan checked the remaining herbs and figured it could all be refined by tomorrow morning.
With so many furnaces of pills, it would undoubtedly be more than enough for him to break through to the True Essence Realm.
After consuming the remaining elixirs, Chen Fan immersed himself into his pill refinement.
As the sun set, the twilight glow painted the earth.
Anshan City regained some of its usual vitality. There were some people walking on the streets, but compared to the previous day, they still looked quite deserted.
As pedestrians conversed, their gazes intermittently shifted upwards.
Their eyes were filled with a mix of curiosity and fear.
Meanwhile, in the Awakened Association hall, dozens of Awakened, both standing and sitting.
"What exactly is happening on that mountain top? Why haven’t we heard anything yet?"
"Yeah, it’s been almost four or five hours. Logically speaking, someone should have come down by now."
"The President went up earlier too, but he hasn’t returned, and nobody is answering his calls."
"Could something really have happened?"
The atmosphere suddenly tensed.
"That can’t be, right? Brother Yan is up there, and so are Fang Yun and Ma Sheng. They’re genuine C-level Awakened. What could possibly go wrong?"
"Yes, it shouldn’t be, right?"
"Brother Hua Jun, do you think we should go up and check?" Someone looked towards the man seated on the north side.
In an instant, dozens of eyes focused on the handsome man.
Among all the people present, only he was a C-level Awakened and also held the position of vice president here.
Hua Jun furrowed his brows and remained silent.
"Brother Hua Jun, I think if something really did happen, it wouldn’t hurt for us to go up and take a look," the man who spoke earlier suggested cautiously.
"I agree. After all, whatever commotion was there has died down for quite some time now."
"What if nothing’s wrong and we’re just overthinking things? If Brother Yan sees us going up, he’d probably be happy. But if we just stay here, doing nothing, then...?" The man trailed off.
The others nodded in agreement.
Yes, Anshan City was technically Yan Ming’s territory. If they could build a good relationship with him, why wouldn’t they?
And if something did happen, they would have time to plan accordingly, right?
"Alright, let’s go up and take a look."
Hua Jun finally slapped the table, making up his mind.
The group surged out of the association and headed towards the mountain top.
With each step they took, they carefully observed the surroundings, moving as one.
Halfway up, a timid voice suddenly called out from above.
"Is it, is it the awakened adults?"
Hearing this voice, Hua Jun and the others were nearly scared out of their wits, a few of them even fell to the ground.
More than ten armed guards timidly emerged from behind some large rocks.
"Ahem, yes, it’s us."
Hua Jun straightened his chest, coughed, and asked, "We heard quite a commotion up here around noon. What exactly happened? Do you know?"
The lead guard, with a look of extreme fear, glanced up and said, "We, we saw, the City Lord and the others, they..."
"What happened to them? Why are you stuttering?" Hua Jun reprimanded.
The dozens of guards, like frightened birds, all knelt on the ground in terror.
The guard who spoke was in tears. "The City Lord and the others, they are all dead!"
"What!"
Hua Jun and his group were astounded.
"Brother Yan and the others, dead?"
"Dead?"
"How, how could this be?"
Hua Jun gaped, blinked twice, and asked, "Do you know what you’re saying?"
"Sir, I know. Even if I had ten lives, I would never dare speak such curses about the City Lord and the others. I saw it with my own eyes: the City Lord was killed by a martial artist with a knife. If you don’t believe me, you can ask the others."
"I saw it too."
"Awakened adults, we all saw it, we all saw it."
"Not just the City Lord, Lord Fang and the others were killed too."
The dozen guards cried out in fear, releasing all the terror they had held in.
Since noon, they had been hiding here, not daring to move, fearing the knife-wielding man might be nearby and cut them down without a word.
After waiting for what felt like forever, they finally saw someone coming up the mountain.