Xiang Qi had been in Skyfall City for nearly a month and found something that surprised him.

Among the tens of thousands of shops, less than one in a hundred shops selling pills is extremely rare, and among the pills sold, the main ones are for refining qi and building foundations, and the pills that can be used by the monks are even more scarce. As for the price, it is even more jaw-dropping.

For example, in the Dongzhou Continent, a medium-grade condensation pill is sold for three or four hundred spirit stones, but here, the same medium-grade condensation pill is actually priced at 1,200 spirit stones!

This caused Xiang Qi to think deeply.

I remember that in the Dongzhou Continent, not only are there countless pills, but even the pills are extremely rich, and as for the price, it is even cheaper. This is because the Liunian faction of the Dongzhou Continent is longer than the gate sect of alchemy, and since the founding of the sect, in just four or five thousand years, hundreds of thousands of alchemists have been cultivated.

Even now, the entire Liunian Sect, the number of high-level alchemists, there are thirty or forty people, and they are specially certified to be able to refine the pill of the knot level at will. And the number of junior alchemists and intermediate alchemists is even more, thousands.

It can be seen from the shortage of pills that the number of junior and intermediate alchemists in the nearby sea area is extremely rare. Not to mention the high-level alchemists.

Thinking of this, Xiang Qi, who was secretly proud, couldn't help but smile on his face, although he had not been certified, but now his alchemy skills had long exceeded the level of an intermediate alchemist, and even the senior alchemist, he was not far behind.

This is not that Xiang Qi is arrogant, he has successfully refined a hundred poisons before, and has a high rate of becoming a pill and the quality of the pill, you must know that if a skilled senior alchemist is allowed to refine this pill, without dozens of explorations and trials, it will be difficult to become a pill at all, let alone the rate of becoming a pill, the quality of the pill phase and other deep-seated things. The high alchemy skills of Xiang Qi can be seen from this.

There are still more than two years to go before the auction starts. He didn't want to waste these two years, except for participating in some small trade fairs, he wanted to spend all his time on alchemy and make a windfall.

Dark iron ore is an extremely rare ore, the price is high, and the amount you need is huge. Even Xiang Qi himself is not 100% sure that his current net worth can afford it.

Therefore, take this opportunity to refine dozens or hundreds of furnaces of elixir and earn tens of millions of spirit stones in order to meet the needs of the emergency.

With the tight pill market in Skyfall City, it is not easy for Xiang Qi to realize this wish!

As for the reason for the lack of alchemists in the nearby seas, Xiang Qi also had a general explanation in his heart.

This place is located in the depths of the ocean, there are many kinds of demon beasts, and the number is extremely large, and the demon beast demon pill also has the effect of improving the cultivation of monks and breaking through the bottleneck, but this effect is weaker than the pill.

There is an inexhaustible demon pill, which also reduces the dependence of immortal cultivators on pills in disguise, and after years of action, the number of alchemists has decreased sharply, gradually forming today's situation.

However, the demon pill cannot completely replace the pill, which can be corroborated by the high price of the pill.

After all, when the monk broke through the bottleneck, the decisive role played by the elixir was irreplaceable by any kind of demon pill. The effect of the pill is more direct and effective, while the effect of the demon pill is more lasting and milder. However, not all monks can absorb the spiritual power in the demon pill, and not all demon pills can be used by human monks. However, there is no such restriction on pills, and the pills taken will definitely be absorbed and used by the monks, and there is no pill that is not effective.

Another point is that the Demon Beast Demon Pill will be more or less toxic, and it will leave sequelae for the monks. For example, taking too much demon pill will lead to vision and hearing deterioration, and even worse, cultivation will stagnate, and the body will explode and die.

Therefore, immortal cultivators are still cautious about taking demon pills.

However, the pill is different. The toxic side effects of the pill are very small, so small that they are negligible. Moreover, the effect of the pill is more direct, faster and more effective.

Xiang Qi's mind was electric, and he quickly gave the name of the next refining pill: Zhu Condensation Pill, Peiji Dan, Tenglong Pill, and Hundred Poisons. If there is a chance, Xiang Qi will try to refine the Divine Cultivation Pill, Blood Qi Pill, Soul Solidifying Pill and other pills that can enhance the cultivation of the cultivators.

After all, now that he has advanced to the Dan Formation Stage, he needs a large number of pills such as the Soul Nourishing Pill, the Blood Qi Pill, and the Soul Solidifying Pill, and if he buys it, I'm afraid it will cost an astronomical amount. And if he happened to have this opportunity, he might as well refine it himself. Keep the good quality for yourself, and sell the bad ones.

Xiang Qi purchased a large number of alchemy auxiliary materials in different stores in batches. Xiang Qi even purchased several medicinal herb shops for indispensable auxiliary materials such as Huang Lingsha and Xianhe water, and the stunned shop owner thought that he had encountered a second-class dealer!

Next, Xiang Qi purchased a large number of raw materials needed to refine the condensation pills, including the fifty-year-old White Spirit Fruit and the hundred-year-old Safflower Grass. To his surprise, these two kinds of spirit grasses were available everywhere, and their prices were also extremely cheap, even less than one-third of the Dongzhou Continent. It seems that with the lack of alchemists, even the raw materials for alchemy are much cheaper.

This is followed by the main materials for refining Peiji Dan, the hundred-year-old wolf, immortal berries and yellow angelica. Although these three kinds of spiritual herbs were a little more remote, but after running more than a dozen spiritual material shops, Xiang Qi had enough raw materials to refine more than a hundred furnaces. I remember that in Zining City, Xiang Qi ran all over the spiritual material shops in the city, but he couldn't buy one or two Angelica angelica. In the end, for the sake of a little Huang Zhi, he also fell into the trap of traitors, if he hadn't been clever, I'm afraid he would have fallen long ago. And here, it was easy to get a sufficient amount of Huang Zhi, and the cost was very small, which made Xiang Qi very excited.

The raw materials for refining the Hundred Poisons are the hundred-year-old nepeta, long pepper, grass fruit, tiger thorn and nepeta, which is very different from in Zining City, Xiang Qi easily bought tiger thorn, cocoon and nepeta. I remember that in Zining City, in order to get Nepeta, he only got a piece after reaching a deal with Yuan Qi to enter the Motuo Fantasy Domain. And here, Xiang Qi spent less than 10,000 spirit stones to buy enough nepeta to open the furnace more than 20 times.

As for the grass fruit, Xiang Qi went to dozens of spiritual material shops and bought twelve at the price of five thousand spirit stones. And at the auction in Zining City, six grass fruits, he spent a full 240,000 spirit stones!