Even someone like Hong Zhong, who was used to all kinds of situations, was stunned by these domineering words. After a while, he said, "Master Lin, we only have three days left. Are you really confident that you can concoct a large amount of elixirs, and they have to be of the highest quality?"
One couldn't blame Hong Zhong for being puzzled- anyone with a bit of common sense would be puzzled. Everyone knew that concocting elixirs was a very time-consuming and laborious- a weaker elixir refiner might not even be able to concoct a single elixir in three days.
As for the highest quality elixirs, unless it was a elixir god like Zhang Liju, even a slightly weaker elixir refiner couldn't guarantee it.
After so many interactions, Hong Zhong was a hundred percent sure that Lin Yi could concoct elixirs of the highest quality, but to say that he could concoct a large amount in three days was too much.
"Let's try it. We don't have any other ideas anyway, why don't we give it a try?" Lin Yi smiled faintly.
Since Lin Yi said so, Hong Zhong didn't have any other ideas. He just nodded, "If that's the case, then I'll have to trouble you, Master Lin. I'll thank you after this is done. I'll go prepare now."
Hong Zhong immediately went to prepare the ingredients, and Lin Yi, on the other hand, asked for a special guest room and closed his eyes to rest.
This time, the reason why he offered to help was because he had thought it through. One, he could return Hong Zhong's previous favors and deepen their relationship. Two, if he showed his great value in front of Hong Zhong, it would be easier for them to work together in the future.
An hour later, Hong Zhong brought a few people with him and moved a few sacks of elixirs. In order to save time, he bought these from Steward Song. These elixirs weren't considered important resources here, and they could be bought with spirit jade.
The elixirs that could be concocted with these ingredients were similar to the foundation breaking elixirs, which were commonly used by foundation establishment practitioners. Since Lin Yi could concoct the foundation breaking elixir, naturally, he could concoct these elixirs as well.
He even gave Lin Yi a few recipes as well- it was an early reward for Lin Yi. After all, to a elixir refiner, every recipe was extremely valuable.
After roughly sorting out the ingredients, Lin Yi asked Hong Zhong to find someone to borrow a pill refining room and entered into a state of isolation. Time was limited, and it was time for the Shennong's cauldron to shine.
Lin Yi had never come into contact with these elixirs before. After all, there weren't any foundation establishment practitioners in the mortal world- there were no elixirs to speak of. However, this didn't stop him from concocting.
Even if it was a pill he'd never seen before, elixir making was still the same. Don't forget that he still had Zhang Liju's notes in the common world- even if he used it as a reference when making foundation building elixirs, it'd still be very useful.
What was worth mentioning was that when he was studying these notes, Lin Yi had received quite a bit of inspiration. It wasn't related to elixir concocting, but it was a killer move that could completely surpass the super qi bomb. However, it was still in the testing phase, and he hadn't fully mastered it yet.
Other than the help of Zhang Liju's notes, the Shennong cauldron, under Han Jingjing's genius modifications, had become a complete semi-automatic elixir concoction artifact. This semi-automatic only required Lin Yi to manually inject his qi into the cauldron, and everything else was done by the cauldron itself. Even elixirs that it had never come into contact with before were no problem.
As long as the recipe was inputted, the cauldron would automatically analyze the elixir concoction curve, and the rest couldn't be any simpler. Following the instructions of the cauldron, he would put in the ingredients and carefully inject his qi, waiting for the elixir to come out.
Two hours later, the first batch of elixirs came out, and the results were just as Lin Yi had expected. As an experiment, he put in five portions of ingredients at once, and this time, three pills came out successfully, while the other two were useless.
The first experiment had a sixty percent success rate, and for any elixir refiner, this was already an exaggeration. The Shennong cauldron's performance after that was the true proof of its legendary abilities.
The same elixir, the second batch had a success rate of eighty percent, and from the third batch onwards, the success rate had stabilized at ninety percent and above, even approaching one hundred percent.
Each time, the cauldron would automatically correct the pill concoction curve, and step by step, it would increase the already shocking success rate to an unparalleled level. The first two batches still had some failures, but after that, the failures pretty much disappeared. This was the true strength of the Shennong cauldron!
For two whole days, Lin Yi didn't go out and had been refining elixirs with all his might. Hong Zhong didn't know what was going on inside, but even if Lin Yi couldn't refine enough top-grade elixirs, his gratitude to Lin Yi didn't diminish in the slightest.
The only two boxes of auction items were dropped halfway, and the Central Island and the other three islands were short of supplies at the same time. The sudden Four Islands Auction Expo suddenly pushed Hong Zhong to the heart of the struggle.
According to this development, the Hong Chamber of Commerce would inevitably fall into disgrace. Not to mention what more dangerous and fatal actions those people would take in the future, at least for Hong Zhong, his career as a sole shopkeeper would come to an end.
In order to intimidate people and to give everyone an explanation, the Hong Chamber of Commerce would definitely push him out as the scapegoat for this incident. They would blame him for the root cause of this failure. This was a logical thing to happen, and no one could change it.
Therefore, forced by the situation, Hong Zhong, who was originally omnipotent, was now left with one last life-saving straw because he was being targeted by others, and that was Lin Yi.
If Lin Yi succeeded, then he would be able to escape. If not, then there was nothing he could do, and he could only resign himself to fate.
That was the truth. In the two days that Lin Yi was concentrating on refining elixirs, Hong Zhong and the other potential opponents didn't just sit around and do nothing. They gathered together and found Steward Song.
"Tomorrow is the auction. Looking at the time, if Hong Zhong has a way to transfer supplies from other places, he should be able to arrive today. Although this possibility is not high, we can't be careless." The first person to speak was Hong Zhong's old acquaintance, Shopkeeper Hao.
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