Chapter 3490 — The Quirks of Bingtang's Temperament (Part 1)
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"Heh, but never mind that either. Whatever you need refined, just come to me directly," Wei Zhao said with a smile.
"That's true enough." Bingtang looked at Wei Zhao's "alchemy artifact" with curious eyes. "This thing—can it refine pills automatically? No wonder your success rate is so high, and so fast too. So you've had a treasure in hand all along!"
"It's not bad." Wei Zhao nodded. "But it's not for sale. There's only one, and it's mine."
"No wonder. Still, keeping a good thing for yourself is the right thing to do." Bingtang nodded. "Then start refining now. Do you need me and Xiaoxiao to help?"
"That won't be necessary." Wei Zhao waved a hand, then opened the medicine cauldron. "Just give me the materials!"
"All right!" Bingtang went to fetch the ingredients for the Great Return Pill and handed them to Wei Zhao. She had prepared them all along, intending to find someone else to refine them—only her relations with the Mysterious Pill Sect had never been good, so they had just sat here ever since.
Wei Zhao took out four portions of materials, hesitated, and then took out five! Judging by the cauldron's capacity, roughly five portions could be placed inside at once. Still, Wei Zhao planned to check first whether four portions would yield the greatest profit, or five.
Wei Zhao pressed the power button on the Shennong Automatic Medicine Cauldron. A welcome screen immediately appeared on the LCD display: Han Jingyi's smiling face, with a line of text beneath it: "The intelligent alchemy system built by Jingjing for Brother Wei Zhao..."
At the sight of this welcome screen, both Feng Xiaoxiao and Bingtang were somewhat astonished!
"Who is this Han Jingyi? How is she so formidable? Did she invent all these medicine cauldrons?" Bingtang asked in surprise.
"She's another itty-bitty wife of Wei Zhao's husband. I don't know if she ranks before you or after you, but she's definitely after me!" Feng Xiaoxiao explained.
Bingtang nodded. Her thinking had always followed the old ways, so she did not much mind how many wives Wei Zhao had. They were all Heaven-rank cultivators, their lifespans endlessly prolonged—such trifles were not something she cared about at all.
On the contrary, she was glad that Wei Zhao had so many people around him who could help him. "Then she really is formidable!"
"Please wait a moment. Jingjing is generating the Great Return Pill alchemy script for Brother Wei Zhao. After Jingjing's calculations, placing five portions of refining materials each time will yield the greatest profit."
Five portions after all! Because the last refinement had used only four portions, Wei Zhao had not paid much attention to that prompt, but he had a vague impression of it.
At that thought, Wei Zhao loaded five portions of Great Return Pill materials into the cauldron, ready to channel his physical true qi and begin refining!
As it turned out, once Wei Zhao had placed the materials in, and Bingtang saw the prompt on the screen, she was even more astonished: "Alchemy script generated. Based on automatic analysis of the weight within the cauldron, five portions of materials have been placed for this refinement. Estimated refining time: three hours and fifty minutes. Please accumulate physical true qi in advance! Estimated pill output: eight pills!"
Five portions of materials could produce eight Qi-Gathering Pills? How was that possible?
But Wei Zhao did not question the prompt on the screen either, so Bingtang kept watching.
Nearly four hours later, when Wei Zhao finished refining and opened the cauldron, there really were eight Qi-Gathering Pills inside!
Yet Bingtang's first reaction was not shock—it was to glare at Wei Zhao. "You told me just now that you still had materials for the Ice-Heart Jade-Bone Pill. In truth you didn't. You were afraid I'd get suspicious if you refined too much, so you lied to me, didn't you?"