The purchasing power of Spirit Stones for Medicinal Pills is still very strong.
Compared to low-grade Talismans that cost two or three Spirit Stones, or low-grade Magical Artifacts with prices in the double digits.
As long as Medicinal Pills are not High Grade, they won't be too expensive.
One Spirit Stone can buy two to three Medium Grade Peiyuan Pills.
It can also be exchanged for more than one hundred and twenty Qi Blood Waste Pills.
Such Medicinal Pill prices were also a result intentionally fostered by the Crimson Kite Immortal Sect to better Cultivate their inner Prodigies.
For some unknown reason, most Spirit Medicines in the Cultivation World contain more or less a certain toxin, which is very harmful to Cultivators and cannot be consumed raw.
The key to Alchemy lies in expelling the toxins from the medicinal ingredients while retaining as much of their efficacy as possible.
Therefore, in this region, the yield of good quality Medicinal Pills from a mature Alchemist is usually seven waste, two inferior, and one medium.
High Grade pills, on the other hand, rely entirely on luck; one can only encounter one or two after refining a sufficient number of times.
And because of the existence of pill toxins, Prodigies only consume High Grade pills.
Thus, under the promotion of Prodigies and the tacit approval of the higher-ups.
The result is that for Alchemists, the High Grade pills, which appear only under extremely rare coincidences above Medium Grade, become their true source of profit.
Each High Grade pill sells for a hundred times the price of a Medium Grade pill, and they are always in short supply, with a price but no market.
This greatly increased the enthusiasm of Alchemists for Alchemy, invisibly increasing the output of other quality Medicinal Pills.
Coupled with the Immortal Sect's policy of vigorously supporting low-level Cultivators with the talent to become Alchemists.
This resulted in the number of Alchemists in the Immortal Sect far exceeding Cultivators of other skills!
The suppression of low-quality Medicinal Pill prices thus became a natural occurrence.
Su Ping was unsure whether this trend was good for the future of Alchemists and couldn't comment.
However, Su Ping, who now held two hundred and thirty Peiyuan Waste Pills and one hundred and twenty Qi Blood Waste Pills after spending three Spirit Stones, was quite satisfied with the situation.
After buying the Waste Pills and finishing the good tea the Old Cultivator had brought.
Su Ping exchanged a few compliments with the Old Cultivator, then left Yun Bao Pavilion and returned to the street.
At this point, Su Ping realized that there were quite a few vendors on this street selling the 'spiritual' ordinary beasts that the Old Cultivator had mentioned.
This made Su Ping understand that even in this Xianxia world, there was no shortage of smart business people.
These people clearly understood that feeding Waste Pills to ordinary beasts might not make money.
But selling ordinary beasts to those willing to take a gamble certainly would!
Su Ping scanned the ordinary beasts at these stalls.
After a moment of thought, Su Ping took out one Medium Grade Peiyuan Pill and ten Waste Pills, and exchanged them with a Cultivator in the Qi Training First Stage for two small rats, one white and one gray, and three small snakes.
The two small rats had bright eyes and seemed quite intelligent, capable of understanding human nature.
These were also the most spiritual ordinary beasts in the market that Su Ping could sense on this street.
It is rumored that after Spirit Beasts of the rat type mature, their escape techniques are unparalleled.
Plus, their small size makes them inconspicuous even in modern society, and Su Ping felt that they would have a use here.
The three small snakes were of a somewhat lesser quality, serving merely as an extra for the two small rats.
Su Ping had already planned that once they became Spirit Snakes, he could find another place to sell them to make up for the Spirit Stone deficit of these past few days.
......
At night, a bright moon hung high in the sky.
Under the moonlight, inside the master bedroom of Linyue Manor.
Su Ping had exchanged all his Fishing catches for fishing coins; after deducting the purification spiritual medicine exchanged last night, he now had 160 coins remaining.
Su Ping looked at the small rats and small snakes he had brought back, separated into two cages.
He smiled slightly and softly said, 'It is your fortune to have met me.'
Su Ping didn't rush to use the Waste Pills; instead, he took out two Animal Controlling Talismans from his Storage Pouch.
As an Inspector who had cut off his own future, Su Ping naturally had preparations for things he would need in the future.
Many times, using fierce beasts was undoubtedly more useful and could better guarantee loyalty than having people guard the house.
Especially when a Cultivator was old and frail.
Even the most trusted person could change their mind.
These two Animal Controlling Talismans were bought by Su Ping from his Junior Brother, who had learned the Animal Controlling Technique.
They allowed ordinary Cultivators to also perform the Animal Controlling Technique.
Of course, the kind of Talismans Su Ping took out couldn't even be considered low-grade Talismans!
What was performed was called Animal Controlling Technique, but in fact, it was at most an Animal Controlling trick, only effective on ordinary beasts.
And thus, it was cheap, and its target customers were Cultivators like Su Ping who had descended to enjoy life.
'Contract!'
Su Ping bit the tip of his tongue and spat two mouthfuls of heart blood onto the Talismans.
Immediately, the two Talismans transformed into two balls of red light and merged into the two trembling small rats, one white and one gray, in the cage.
'Squeak?'
The small rats were panicked; after being struck by the red light, a magical imprint of Su Ping appeared in their minds without any resistance.
'Squeak, squeak, squeak!'
The red light dissipated in an instant, and the two small rats no longer feared; being able to understand human nature, they instead looked at Su Ping with a hint of fawning.
'It's only natural that it went smoothly... But thinking about it, I'm a Cultivator in the Cultivation Qi Training Middle Stage after all. If I failed to contract two ordinary small rats, how bad would my luck be!'
Su Ping felt the mysterious enlightenment brought by the Animal Controlling contract and gently spread his hands.
Immediately, with the expenditure of thirty fishing coins, purification spiritual medicine and life spirit medicine appeared in his palm.
'Be good and listen!'
'First, eat the Waste Pills, then drink some life spirit medicine, and if you really can't bear it, drink the purification spiritual medicine!'
Su Ping held Waste Pills in one hand and Spirit Medicine in the other, and circulated his magical power to control the small rats.
Through practical application.
Su Ping found that the minimum dosage of the Spirit Medicine he exchanged was one milliliter.
Spirit Medicine below one milliliter would not be effective.
This prevented Su Ping from performing an infinite subdivision method to test the lower limit of the Spirit Medicine, which left him a bit regretful.
However, Su Ping's method of raising Spirit Beasts with Waste Pills, with the aid of Spirit Medicine, was indeed the correct Dao as he had guessed!
The white rat became a First-Order Spirit Rat after eating the Waste Pills for the sixth time.
The small gray rat successfully ascended after being fed Waste Pills for the fourth time.
Don't just look at the single-digit number of Waste Pills consumed.
In fact, without the help of life spirit medicine, the two small rats would most likely have been poisoned to death after consuming the first Waste Pill.
And without purification spiritual medicine to clear the pill toxins and repair defects.
Even if the small rats survived the first pill, they would reach their limit and be unable to progress further with the second Waste Pill.
In the real world, for an ordinary beast to become a Spirit Beast by relying on Waste Pills... it's probably harder than winning the lottery jackpot!
'Squeak!'
Having become Spirit Beasts, the two small rats became even more human-like, and could even transmit messages to Su Ping through the contract.
Su Ping also opened the cages and released them.
The two small rats turned into afterimages and darted out of the cages, perching on Su Ping's left and right shoulders respectively, and spontaneously began to circulate their breathing techniques, absorbing the essence of the moonlight under the night sky.
'Those not under control are Yao Beasts, and those under control are Spirit Beasts.'
'These Spirit Rats of mine, upon successful ascension, can spontaneously absorb moonlight... and spontaneously deepen their contract with me, allowing me to vaguely see what they see and hear.'
'This is a characteristic only seen in Spirit Pets with extremely high compatibility! I never expected such a pleasant surprise from contracting and cultivating them from ordinary beasts!'
'If these Spirit Pets were sold for Spirit Stones, they would at least fetch a three-digit price, right?'
Su Ping was pleasantly surprised that his first cultivation attempt had such good luck, resulting in two Spirit Rats that seemed to have considerable potential.
He ignored the small rats, who were cultivating on their own, and turned his gaze to the small snakes.
Following the same pattern and with experience, Su Ping took out his homemade syringe and successfully turned the three small snakes into Spirit Beasts as well.