Manager Wang’s eyes widened, and he glared at the other person, "What did you say? I was tricked by him again?"
"Why do you say 'again'?"
"Why are you saying 'again'?"
"Do you take me for a fool?"
"Besides, today I'm the one who's got him cornered!"
"Do you understand what 'cornered' means?"
The staff member named Liu Ye looked embarrassed, "Although that's the case, but..."
Manager Wang impatiently asked, "But what?"
"It's still the issue of the pill refinement success rate," Liu Ye said nervously, "I always feel that this person's success rate should be more than just fifty percent."
"He might even be using the opportunity to refine pills for our Qingyun Tower to enrich himself."
As soon as this was said.
Manager Wang suddenly shivered.
A chill that emanated from his soul surged into his heart.
To be fair.
Alchemists with a fifty percent success rate were truly rare.
Although he didn't dare to believe Chen Nan's success rate was above fifty percent.
But upon careful consideration.
He had agreed too readily before.
That was a bit strange!
Now it seemed.
Chen Nan's success rate was by no means as simple as fifty percent.
Thinking this.
A sense of bitterness welled up in Manager Wang's heart.
Even though he didn't want to admit that he had been tricked by Chen Nan again.
Facts proved.
It seemed, perhaps, possibly, that he really had been tricked by him.
"Chen Nan, Chen Nan, you really are a scoundrel."
"You clearly asked our Qingyun Tower to help you find medicinal ingredients."
"But I never expected."
"That even at a time like this, you would still be plotting against Qingyun Tower."
"You must be uncomfortable if you don't con me for a day!"
Although he disdained Chen Nan's methods.
Manager Wang, however, felt a sense of awe towards Chen Nan.
He pleaded with Qingyun Tower to help him find medicinal ingredients.
Yet he could still seize the opportunity to trick Qingyun Tower.
Even after experiencing such methods himself.
He couldn't say he could learn them.
After all.
Not everyone's schemes were as intricate and layered as Chen Nan's.
Although he had been tricked.
Manager Wang felt delighted.
Being tricked.
It also showed his own value.
Even putting it another way.
There were very few alchemists with a fifty percent success rate in the martial world.
If Chen Nan were to refine ten thousand Soul Gathering Pills this time, even if he pocketed a thousand.
Qingyun Tower would still receive five thousand.
This was a great achievement!
Without further thought, Manager Wang said to Liu Ye, "Send a message to headquarters, asking them to search for the whereabouts of the Ten Thousand Year Shore Flower."
"Also, tell them that I have found a highly skilled alchemist who is willing to refine four types of pills for us for free."
"Ask headquarters to start collecting medicinal ingredients for refining Soul Gathering Pills and Form Transformation Pills."
"Ten thousand portions of each should suffice."
"Since he's willing to refine pills for us for free."
"We might as well increase his workload a bit."
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"Third Brother has worked so hard!"
"For me to become stronger."
"He has truly gone to great lengths!"
Beneath the night sky.
Chen Nan was in a great mood.
He had been thinking about earning more money to buy medicinal ingredients and refine pills.
After all, to break through to the Soul Gathering realm.
The pills he had on hand were long gone.
To buy medicinal ingredients for refining Soul Gathering Pills would definitely require a large sum of money.
But now it was different.
Number Three, under the guise of helping Qingyun Tower refine pills, could provide him with a lot of assistance.
He just didn't know what kind of pills they wanted him to refine.
If the quantity could be larger.
That would truly be fantastic.
"With Qingyun Tower's capabilities, it shouldn't be difficult to find the Ten Thousand Year Shore Flower within two months."
"However..."
"Refining the Life-Giving Creation Pill requires three medicinal ingredients."
"How should the other two be found..."
Chen Nan was at a loss.
If he couldn't find the Ten Thousand Year Coiling Dragon Ginseng.
Nor the Ten Thousand Year Underworld River Fish.
Even if Qingyun Tower found the Ten Thousand Year Shore Flower, it would be in vain.
"Should I ask the Ma family for help?"
Suddenly.
Chen Nan thought of the Ma family.
The Ma family had always wanted to curry favor with him.
To curry favor with him.
They had even bought a Soul Gathering Pill from Qingyun Tower before.
Although he didn't know how much they paid.
It was definitely not cheap.
If he asked them for help.
They probably wouldn't refuse, right?
After all.
The Ma family had the backing of the great force of Fengdu City!
"This matter shall be left to the Ma family!"
Chen Nan grinned and finalized his plan.
As long as the Ma family agreed to help find the Coiling Dragon Ginseng.
Then the matter of refining the Life-Giving Creation Pill would be settled.
Although the Underworld River Fish was still missing.
He planned to find the Underworld River Fish himself.
Once he found the Ten Thousand Year Shore Flower and the Ten Thousand Year Coiling Dragon Ginseng, he would search for it in the Underworld River.
After all, that thing dies as soon as it leaves the water.
It had to be used fresh as a medicinal guide.
However.
How to get the Ma family to agree to help him find the Coiling Dragon Ginseng presented a slight difficulty.
Moreover, he couldn't directly approach the Ma family.
That would make him seem less dignified.
The next morning.
Chen Nan, along with Guo Yu and Di Ting.
Carrying a fishing rod made of a bamboo pole.
A bamboo basket.
Wearing a straw hat, he looked like an old fisherman.
He traversed the city and arrived upstream of the construction site at the city's eastern water transport dock.
He was there to fish.
But not for the fish.
He was there to lure out someone from the Ma family.
He believed.
Someone from the Ma family would surely learn of his movements.
And thus send someone to contact him.
In this way.
He could then mention his need for the Coiling Dragon Ginseng.
On the shallow bank by the moat.
Chen Nan sat casually.
He threaded an earthworm onto a needle, heated and bent into a hook, and cast the hook into the water.
The float was a goose feather.
The buoyancy of the goose feather was great, and when a fish tugged, one could clearly see the goose feather sink.
Chen Nan had fished a few times in the mortal world.
But he was only an amateur.
He couldn't truly appreciate the joy of fishing.
However.
Even as an amateur.
He knew when to set the hook.
Although he hadn't fished many times.
He had watched some videos of fishing masters in the mortal world.
Like Deng Lianyong.
Liu Changgan.
Hua Qianjin.
And Li Damao.
Perhaps because the bamboo pole was too stiff and lacked elasticity, making it easy to be pulled back.
He caught several fish in succession.
But the line broke every time.
After all, the fishing line he used was sewing thread.
Even though he had braided the sewing thread into a coarse rope, it wasn't very strong.
If it were small fish, it would be fine.
But if it were larger fish, he couldn't reel them in.
Guo Yu watched with some anxiety and couldn't help but say, "Big brother, if you want to eat fish, I can go into the river and catch some for you. Why are you fishing here?"
"Look, the people fishing by the river are all elderly people."
"How can you, so young, jump straight into an old person's life?"
Chen Nan smiled without answering. He re-tied a set of hooks and line, cast it into the water, and said, "As soon as a person turns twenty, they need to mature."
"Also, I feel that fishing is a very relaxing activity."
"Especially for us cultivators."
"If we reach a bottleneck in our cultivation and cannot break through."
"It can alleviate the inner tension and anxiety."
"Lord Chen?" Suddenly, a slightly surprised voice rang out. Ma Jun walked over with a fishing rod, incredulously, "What a coincidence, you're fishing here too?"
Chen Nan grinned.
See!
The big fish had taken the bait!