Urban Most Awesome Dad-Chapter 437 - : The Pill is Completed, Dispelling the Thunder_1
Chapter 437: Chapter 437: The Pill is Completed, Dispelling the Thunder_1
According to a global survey conducted by relevant agencies, women’s spending power ranks first, with the day-to-day expenses on items such as bags and clothes accounting for a significant portion.
The larger share, however, is in beauty care, with a market so substantial it’s astonishing.
Regardless of appearance, everyone desires beauty, and to become fairer and more beautiful, women are willing to spend large amounts of money on products like lipstick and foundation, easily amounting to hundreds; those designer perfumes and cosmetics can even go as high as four figures.
But when it comes to becoming beautiful, the issue of money simply can’t stop them; even those who undergo cosmetic surgery and breast augmentation are not few in number.
Therefore, Xu Fan’s attention inevitably turned to this area.
His expertise in alchemy had reached its peak, capable of turning decay into wonder, and resolving women’s skin problems was simply using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, an overkill for the task at hand.
Thus, Xu Fan was full of confidence.
He planned to start by concocting the Beauty Pill, the Nourishing Beauty Pill, and the Youth Preserving Pill.
These three products, with only a single character different in their names, had vastly different effects.
The Beauty Pill could make the skin flawless, solving various skin issues such as scars, burns, acne, and so forth, and was also the flagship product.
The Nourishing Beauty Pill tended more towards skin maintenance, making the skin exude youthful vitality, supple and bouncy, like that of a young girl.
As the name suggests, the Youth Preserving Pill is meant to preserve youth, to maintain a youthful appearance forever. In reality, its function is to effectively slow down skin aging, so that even at the age of forty or fifty, the condition of the skin could be restored to that of a twenty-year-old, retaining everlasting youth.
However, considering modern people’s habits of use, after deliberation, Xu Fan decided to convert the Nourishing Beauty Pill and the Beauty Pill into ointments for external application.
The Youth Preserving Pill would remain unchanged, as it was more inclined to alter the whole physiological state of the person, and simply applying it externally would not cover all the aspects.
The medicinal herbs that Lin Yaoshi helped purchase were for concocting these three types of elixirs.
Since the medicinal ingredients were common and inexpensive, and the refining techniques were controlled by Xu Fan, it was impossible for outsiders to replicate and counterfeit them.
Therefore, once these three products hit the market, they would definitely occupy the market rapidly with their powerful and miraculous effects, and the profits would be so huge that it would probably be beyond the capabilities of Xu Fan’s family alone to expand and strengthen the business rapidly, let alone charge into the international market.
Therefore, Xu Fan already had a plan in mind and decided to join forces with the Lu family, Cui Family, Lin Yaoshi, Night Castle, and Qingyun Sect, among other major powers in Zhonghai, to split this super cake together.
Among these partners, Lin Yaoshi would liaise with the major medicinal herb suppliers, ensuring the quality and quantity of the materials; the Cui Family could handle processing, packaging, and storage; the Lu family could manage marketing and public relations; Night Castle and Qingyun Sect had many people and could do security, loading and unloading, transporting, and delivering.
Of course, advertising was indispensable, and the designated brand image spokesperson had to be none other than Chen Shiyu.
After all, having a resource like Xinghai Media Company readily available could take care of producing brand commercials and promotional advertisements, saving a considerable amount of money.
In this way, Xu Fan could quickly pull together a complete team and form a full industry chain.
After formulating a general idea, Xu Fan also made time to read some books on economics, finance, and business management these days, memorizing various theories and case studies, integrating them, and applying knowledge creatively.
Therefore, Xu Fan believed that if he went into business, he would definitely be able to make a great success, and might even become the wealthiest man in the country.
After parking the car, Xu Fan took Tongtong into Yifan Pharmaceuticals and headed straight to the warehouse to weigh the medicinal herbs according to the correct proportions before moving on to the executive office on the top floor.
Ben Ben followed them…
This was when its usefulness became apparent, as Xu Fan was too busy to play with Tongtong, Ben Ben could take his place, and it was also excellent at keeping Tongtong safe from harm.
Xu Fan entered the inner office alone, placed the Bronze Ding on the table, modified the heating array inside the Ding, and then activated it with a single move.
The modified formation allowed the heating speed to increase by one-third, significantly improving the efficiency of pill refining.
Once everything was ready, Xu Fan began to refine the Eliminate Thunder Pill.
Although called an elixir, its grade was quite low, even lower than that of the Pei Yuan Pill. With Xu Fan’s current cultivation level, he could easily refine it.
Xu Fan sat cross-legged on the floor with the small cauldron placed in front of him. After adding the ingredients into the cauldron, he released rolling Spiritual Energy with both hands, enveloping the surface of the cauldron.
Under the influence of the Spiritual Energy, the small cauldron levitated in mid-air, spinning dizzily as its temperature rapidly increased.
In just a few minutes, it heated up to a terrifying temperature, melting all the ingredients into a medicinal juice and continuously transforming into the shape of an elixir.
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Controlling the heat, Xu Fan made the medicinal juice become viscous, eventually forming a single elixir.
Following a round of baking, a trembling sound emanated from the cauldron, and the elixir was officially refined.
The completely dark cyan Eliminate Thunder Pill bore fine patterns on its surface, exactly nine stripes.
This indicated that it was a ninth-grade elixir.
If any other alchemist witnessed this, they would be incredibly shocked. To produce a ninth-grade elixir on the first attempt was too impressive.
Just like Martial Arts Techniques, elixirs also have levels and grades. The higher the grade, the more potent the medicinal power, the more pronounced the medicinal effects, and it also implies rarer ingredients and increased difficulty in refining.
Besides the grade, there is also the concept of the elixir’s quality. Even identical elixirs can have different qualities depending on how they are refined.
The better the quality, the better the medicinal effect.
This is akin to students, who are divided into elementary, middle, and high school levels, corresponding to the grades of the elixir.
Even within the same grade or class, some students perform well, while others do not, which corresponds to the individual quality of elixirs of the same grade.
The grade determines the level of the elixir, and the quality determines the upper limit of the elixir within that level.
Therefore, in judging an alchemist’s skills, one must not only consider the highest grade of elixir they can produce but also the quality of the elixirs they refine.
After countless years of exploration and development in the Cultivation World, the practice of alchemy has also summarized corresponding experiences.
Generally, a rather impressive alchemist is able to produce elixirs that can often surpass fourth-grade, mostly between fifth and sixth-grade. Reaching seventh or eighth-grade largely depends on luck. With good luck, out of a hundred pills in a batch, several may be above seventh-grade. With bad luck, not even a single one might be above seventh-grade.
Thus, those alchemists who can refine elixirs of the seventh-grade or higher are extraordinary, and each one is a grandmaster of alchemy respected and treated with high regard.
But even they cannot guarantee a hundred percent success rate in producing high-quality elixirs; the failure rate still exists.
Yet the very elixir casually produced by Xu Fan was of the ninth grade.
Although the Eliminate Thunder Pill was a low-level elixir, Xu Fan’s superb pill refining standard was undeniable.
Upon seeing the quality of the Eliminate Thunder Pill, Xu Fan was quite satisfied. With a thought, Spiritual Energy enwrapped the pill and sent it flying into the Jade Bottle Xu Fan had prepared. With a “plop,” it fell into the bottle.
Xu Fan closed the bottle cap and set it aside, now just waiting for a thunderstorm to occur. Only then could Cui Yang attract lightning into his body to awaken his constitution, while taking the Eliminate Thunder Pill to reduce the harm of the heavenly lightning to his body.
And the Beauty Pill would be the next to begin refining.
