Upon hearing this, Xiao Hu said, "Gang Leader, the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce and Zhou Peng haven’t made any moves."
Chen Jie laughed, "Still quite patient."
After saying this, Chen Jie said, "Hmm, you and Chen Heng take a thousand guild members to the dock. By noon today, Chen Wang should be back from Huangzhou Prefecture, bringing back plenty of grain."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Hu said, "Noon today?"
Leading the way, Xiao Hu said, "Gang Leader, aren’t you going to take a look today?"
Chen Jie waved his hand and said, "No, today I’m getting two furnaces of elixirs from my master, so today’s matters are up to you all."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Hu said, "Understood."
Xiao Hu immediately left, while Chen Jie went to a quiet room, where Bai Wenjing was already waiting.
Bai Wenjing held two elixir recipes in hand and said, "Jiu Si, this Qi Blood Pill is a Breakthrough Pill for the Qi Blood Holding Core Realm, and refining it is a real test of fire control, so you should be prepared for failure."
And beside him, Liu Yishou said, "Yes, Gang Leader, this level of elixir is also our first time refining."
Chen Jie said, "Everyone has a first time, and this time Elder Liu and my master are helping, I have confidence."
Indeed, Chen Jie was the principal alchemist today. As for Chen Jie’s skills? Let’s just say Chen Jie is a descendant of Chang Chun Valley, with a large number of alchemy books hidden within his Iron Ring.
Chen Jie had shown some of these books to Bai Wenjing, which made Bai Wenjing feel enlightened and quickly improve his alchemy skills.
And Chen Jie read even more.
Thus Chen Jie began today’s refining, and today Chen Jie was refining two types of elixirs.
One was the Spirit Transformation Pill to breakthrough Energy Transformation, which Chen Jie had refined once before and had some experience with.
The other was the Qi Blood Pill recipe he got from Han He.
The Qi Blood Pill is a Breakthrough Pill for surpassing the Qi Blood Holding Core Realm. Although Chen Jie had already broken through Qi Blood Holding Core, he still had subordinates.
To rule the world, one cannot rely on fighting alone, thus his subordinates needed to be armed as well.
This was also the reason why Chen Jie was refining these two types of elixirs.
For this elixir refinement, Chen Jie used the ancestral Chang Chun Furnace from Chang Chun Valley.
Yes, it was the small green furnace located at the center of the Iron Ring, also a Martial Arts secret treasure, used to refine elixirs with a much higher success rate than other furnaces.
Chen Jie took up the Chang Chun Furnace and began today’s refining.
The usual practice for the first furnace was a trial furnace, to heat the furnace and get familiar with the feel, thus it used inexpensive elixirs, a detoxification pill this time.
The result was successful, and it was made successfully in one go.
Everyone felt today’s touch was good, so they immediately started refining the second furnace with the Spirit Transformation Pill.
The materials for the Spirit Transformation Pill were exchanged by Chen Jie and Zhao Ya, and soon the refining began. With the help of the two experienced seniors, Chen Jie was successful, refining a whole furnace of Spirit Transformation Pill.
This furnace yielded a total of five Spirit Transformation Pills, which meant at least five Energy Transformation Masters could be created.
Chen Jie put them away; this would be the foundation of his future Mianshui Fishing Guild.
Having refined the Spirit Transformation Pills, Chen Jie felt he was on a roll today and decided to strike while the iron was hot to refine a furnace of Qi Blood Pills.
Chen Jie took the furnace and began refining; with the help of the two seniors, this batch of Qi Blood Pill was also very smoothly refined, mainly thanks to the knowledge Chen Jie had learned from Chang Chun Valley.
In the Chang Chun Valley knowledge system, being able to refine Qi Blood Pills was considered entry-level.
The elixirs were quickly refined; this batch was successful but only yielded three pills.
With this, Chen Jie’s tasks for the day were successfully completed.
Moreover, his reserves were reasonably complete; currently, Chen Jie’s elixir reserves could be called very comprehensive, starting with high-level elixirs, three Qi Blood Pills, five Spirit Transformation Pills, Tai Sui Pills, ten Second Grade (taken from Ba Tan).
One hundred First Grade Tai Sui Pills, plus various auxiliary elixirs.
One could say Chen Jie was very wealthy now, and these were all prepared for his guild.
After finishing all this, Chen Jie left the Dan Room and found it was just noon. It must be said that today’s elixir refinement was indeed very smooth.
First, with the knowledge from Chang Chun Valley, Chen Jie’s understanding of elixirs had reached a new level.
Secondly, the furnace Chen Jie used today was the Chang Chun Furnace, the treasure of Chang Chun Valley, a Martial Arts secret treasure, which first could increase the pill formation rate and second could shorten the refining time.
And today, with Bai Wenjing and Liu Yishou’s help, Chen Jie was so successful.
Thus, just by noon, Chen Jie walked out of the Dan Room.
As soon as he came out, he saw Zhou Chu, who was sitting there eating fried meatballs. Seeing Chen Jie said, "Gang Leader, you’re out; everyone in the guild has gone to the dock."
Chen Jie said, "Has Chen Wang arrived?"
Zhou Chu said, "Yes, he just arrived not long ago."
At this moment, at the dock, ten merchant ships flying the Fishing Guild’s flag were moored at the Fishing Guild’s dock. Chen Wang stood on the bow, looking at Xiao Hu who came to receive the ship and said, "Brother Hu, I brought back the grain for you, a total of 100,000 stones!"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Hu said, "Wang, you’ve worked hard, we’ll handle unloading the ship, brothers, let’s move the grain!"
Xiao Hu shouted, and the next moment everyone rushed onto the merchant ships and began today’s grain transport. Having moved one batch yesterday, today it was much easier.
Xiao Hu went up and asked Chen Wang, "Wang, which ones are the real grains?"
Wang said, "Those ones."
Xiao Hu said, "And the rest?"
Wang said, "Mud and stones."
Xiao Hu said, "Don’t let it spill."
Wang said, "Don’t worry, according to the Gang Leader’s request, these mud and stones are packed in thick burlap bags; even if you use a knife, you can’t easily cut them open, while the real grains are packed in thin burlap bags, and I’ve even deliberately put small tears in some, so the grains get exposed on the road."