Chapter 25 Rights and Obligations [Vote for Recommendation!]

After leaving behind one Yellow Dragon Pill, Wang Tao returned the remaining eleven Yellow Dragon Pills to Lu Qingfeng and said, "The Guild Leader will be back in about two days. If you wish to engage in alchemy, use these materials at the processing station. However, it is still best to cultivate first. Once you have Inner Breath, controlling the Alchemy Furnace will make alchemy much more efficient."

"Taking the advice of my senior."

Wang Tao had made proper arrangements, and Lu Qingfeng had no objections.

"Just call me Old Wang. The Guild Leader and Old Lu call me that."

Wang Tao was quite forthright and then looked at Lu Qingfeng to ask, "Do you have any Cultivation Techniques?"

"Yes."

Lu Qingfeng replied.

"Alright, I will have someone take you to rest for a while. Spend these two days getting familiar with Yuan Yi Mountain, and you can come to the Alchemy Room that Old Yue and I use at any time. When the Guild Leader comes back, we will immediately construct an individual Alchemy Room for you."

"But there are a few things that I need to tell you upfront, which I guess Old Lu definitely didn't explain."

Wang Tao led Lu Qingfeng to sit aside, and naturally, Lu Qingfeng was all ears.

Only to hear Wang Tao say, "As you know, there are not many players in the Yuan Yi Guild. Including you, there are only seven of us. So the Guild Leader does give special treatment to us players. For example, upon joining the guild, you are directly granted the status of an elder. Participation in various guild tasks is also voluntary."

"If you have any problems with cultivation or alchemy, you can always come to us for advice. All kinds of low-level to top-level Elixir Recipes and Basic Level Cultivation Techniques are currently open to players free of charge."

Upon hearing this, Lu Qingfeng couldn't help but be pleased.

This was indeed quite good.

He wasn't interested in Basic Level Cultivation Techniques, but the low-level to top-level Elixir Recipes were of great use to him. They could save him a significant amount of expenses and also the time and effort in collecting recipes.

Additionally, becoming an elder of the Yuan Yi Guild and having optional guild tasks was also not bad.

At least, joining the guild wasn't as restrictive as Lu Qingfeng had imagined.

In Black Sand Town, there was no such preferential treatment for players, where they were treated the same as the locals. However, in the Bingling Realm, with fewer than three thousand players, the Yuan Yi Guild was only gathering players at the grassroots stage in this manner.

Once the number of players in the Bingling Realm increased, they would definitely start treating players and locals equally.

Lu Qingfeng listened quietly and, seeing that Wang Tao wasn't finished, did not interrupt.

Wang Tao spoke frankly without concealment, "Since we enjoy privileges, naturally, there are corresponding duties. You are skilled in alchemy, so completing the corresponding monthly alchemy tasks is enough. The tasks are not heavy; with your alchemy speed, it will only take two to three days each month to complete. The guild will purchase these Elixir Pills at 80% of the market price after deducting the cost."

"If you still have the energy, you could help mentor apprentices in the guild. It would not only help you with assistance, but if you successfully train Alchemy Apprentices, there will also be corresponding benefits."

At this point, Wang Tao's mouth moved slightly, and he used the Transmission Skill to say, "I can tell you about the benefits in advance. I have been with the Yuan Yi Guild for twenty-three years, and I have trained fourteen Low-level Alchemy Apprentices and two Intermediate Alchemy Apprentices. The Elixir Pills they refine, the guild purchases at 70% of the market price after deducting costs, and that extra 10% goes to us."

"So teaching a few more apprentices, in the long run, the benefits are quite substantial."

Lu Qingfeng nodded upon hearing this.

Indeed.

The 10% profit from one or two apprentices might not seem much, but with sixteen apprentices trained by Wang Tao, the combined profit was quite impressive.

Lu Qingfeng felt some Heart Movement.

In his previous life, he had rich experience in teaching apprentices and had trained seven or eight Alchemy Apprentices himself. Now that he had joined the Yuan Yi Guild, these experiences might come in handy!

After chatting with Lu Qingfeng for a good while, Wang Tao called an apprentice to lead Lu Qingfeng to a residence that had been prepared in advance.

To Lu Qingfeng's delight, it was actually a detached small courtyard, and the courtyard even had dedicated servants to attend to him.

These servants had only a slight Root Bone and could not meet the standards required by the Yuan Yi Guild for recruiting cultivators, so they started as servants. If the household they served was kind-hearted and gave them a bit of nurture, they too had the chance to set foot on the path of cultivation.

Therefore.

When Lu Qingfeng arrived, a total of four servants in the courtyard, two boys and two girls, were all exceedingly respectful.

"Go about your business, do not approach the cultivation chamber unless there's a matter."

Lu Qingfeng gestured with his hand and walked straight toward the chamber.

He had refined twelve Yellow Dragon Pills in Wang Tao's Alchemy Room. Wang Tao took one, and the remaining eleven were all returned to Lu Qingfeng. Lu Qingfeng inquired, and Wang Tao only mentioned the cost of the materials for these Yellow Dragon Pills, one pill was enough to offset it.

Lu Qingfeng had experience.

In his previous life in Black Sand Town, the cost of refining a Yellow Dragon Pill was about twenty portions of basic medicinal ingredients. The market price for an ordinary Yellow Dragon Pill was around fifty portions of basic medicinal ingredients.

The Yellow Dragon Pills refined by Lu Qingfeng cost twenty portions as well but were more potent.

Additionally, with fewer pills needed to achieve the same level of cultivation and thus less accumulated elixir toxicity, the price was around eighty portions.

By this calculation, the twelve Yellow Dragon Pills Lu Qingfeng just refined had a material cost of two hundred and forty portions. Even at market price, a single Yellow Dragon Pill was worth eighty portions, leaving a clear deficit.

It must have been covered by Wang Tao!

For a top-level Alchemy Apprentice like Wang Tao, a hundred or so portions of basic medicinal ingredients were naturally trivial. Wang Tao did not mention it, perhaps for this reason.

But Lu Qingfeng could not forget this favor.

Entering the chamber, Lu Qingfeng began his cultivation in this life.

The "Qing Yuan Sword Technique" had been strengthened to True Sect Level, qualifying as one of the most top-level Cultivation Methods in the world. With his dozens of cultivation experiences from his previous life, Lu Qingfeng mastered the basics with familiar ease.

A Yellow Dragon Pill ingested, the "Qing Yuan Sword Technique" circulated, and his body worked like a great mill, grinding down the pill's potency and rapidly absorbing it.

Half an hour later.

The potency of the Yellow Dragon Pill was fully refined, and Lu Qingfeng's cultivation inadvertently reached the First Level of the Fetal Breathing Realm.

"An ordinary Yellow Dragon Pill grants 3 Experience Value points."

"The Yellow Dragon Pills I refined, with a 50% increased efficacy, yield 4.5 Experience Value points."

Lu Qingfeng glanced at his Experience Value points and continued refining the Yellow Dragon Pills.

After another two hours, having refined three more Yellow Dragon Pills, Lu Qingfeng's level rose to Level 2, and his meridians, unable to bear the burden, experienced bursts of piercing pain.

Only then did Lu Qingfeng cease his cultivation practice, rising to leave the chamber. He casually called a servant and had them show him around Yuan Yi Mountain.

The following three days.

Lu Qingfeng repeated this process.

Practicing cultivation every morning for two hours, then circling around Yuan Yi Mountain to familiarize himself with the operations of the Yuan Yi Guild, followed by refining Yellow Dragon Pills in Wang Tao's Alchemy Room in the afternoon.

During this period.

Lu Qingfeng also got to know another top-level Alchemy Apprentice on Yuan Yi Mountain, Yue Ran.

Yue Ran looked more mature, seemingly in his thirties, but in reality, he was younger than Wang Tao, who appeared youthful.

This top-level Alchemy Apprentice, unlike the handsome but rough Wang Tao, was more composed, quiet, and spoke little.

His attitude towards Lu Qingfeng was neither cold nor warm.

According to Wang Tao, Old Yue is quite distant to ordinary people! After interacting with him several times, Lu Qingfeng found this to indeed be the case.

Even when with Wang Tao, Yue Ran rarely spoke, and more often it was Wang Tao who dominated the conversation with his grand eloquence.