Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

Chapter 233: Chapter 133: Candid Game, Old Fox and Little Fox (Second Update) _2

Luo Chen raised his head, his gaze landing on the Foundation Establishment Pill.

With a nod, Mi Shuhua assured him, ”I’m not one for meaningless chatter, this Foundation Establishment Pill now belongs to you.”

Luo Chen was stunned. It’s really his now?

Then in the next moment, he saw the Foundation Establishment Pill fall into a jade box.

The jade box floated up and positioned itself in front of Luo Chen.

”When you’ve finalized your Qi Refinement, come find me, I’ll release the prohibition on the box for you.”

”Well, now that the Foundation Establishment Pill is in your hands, you feel more at ease, don’t you?”

Luo Chen was visibly dazed as he held onto the jade box, still finding it hard to believe.

He’d gotten a Foundation Establishment Pill just like that?

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of the expectant look on Mi Shuhua’s face.

All of a sudden!

He became serious.

Then, he swore to the heavens and made a vow.

”As long as Luo Chen is part of the Broken Mountain Gang, I will do everything in my power to concoct as many Medium Grade Jade Marrow Pills as possible, and I will no longer be evasive and dishonest! Should I deceive, may I be struck by lightning!”

Upon hearing this promise, Mi Shuhua finally revealed a satisfied expression.

The vows of cultivators, although some do not take them seriously, they are at least somewhat useful.

Especially to someone like Luo Chen who is dedicated to the Great Dao Path.

He was exceptionally satisfied!

Today, after all their upfront negotiations, it was ultimately him, Mi Shuhua, who had the last laugh.

A young fox could never outsmart an old one!

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With the company of Mi Junping, Luo Chen, his face full of gratefulness, left the Mi Family.

Mi Junping silently chuckled at his changing expression.

This lad was really good at keeping his secrets, did he really think it was that easy to fool a Foundation Establishment Cultivator?

From now on, he would diligently work for the Mi Family!

It wasn’t until Luo Chen safely returned to the Inner City and hid in his home that his grateful expression finally faded.

He pulled out the jade box, his face solemn.

A Foundation Establishment Pill!

What the heck kind of Foundation Establishment Pill!

It was nothing more than a pie in the sky!

And many people have been fooled into wanting a bite of this pie.

People like Han Dang the Heart Eating Tiger who died on the Dao Debate Platform, Qin Liangchen who lost an arm, and even Zeng Wen and Wang Yuan from the Broken Mountain Gang.

Now, this pie had landed in Luo Chen’s hands.

But he could only look at it, not eat it.

The prohibition on the jade box was so complex under Luo Chen’s Spirit Vision Technique that he didn’t know where to start.

This could no longer be counted as a prohibition, it could be called a small Sealing Array!

A Qi Refinement Cultivator like him shouldn’t even dream about unlocking it.

Even Foundation Establishment Cultivators, apart from Mi Shuhua himself, would be unable to unlock it.

That was because on it was Mi Shuhua’s Spirit Consciousness Imprint. Any attempt to touch it would cause the contents of the box to explode.

Perhaps only a Golden Core Cultivator at a vastly higher realm could easily unlock it.

But would a mere Foundation Establishment Pill be compelling enough to request the help of a Golden Core Cultivator?

”You sure planned this well, you were probably waiting for me to make an Oath of Dao, weren’t you?”

Luo Chen clenched his fists in rage.

Mi Shuhua had treated him well, but he had never let Mi Shuhua down either.

Didn’t Mi Shuhua consume most of the profits from the Jade Marrow Pills that he refined previously?

Yet today, he had set up such a trap for him!

Taking deep breaths, Luo Chen forced himself to calm down.

He began to recall everything that had happened since he stepped into the stone chamber.

Whether it was the stone chamber with the Second-Rank Spirit Gathering Array that simulated a Second Order Spirit Vein, the once-a-month cultivation allowance, or even the Foundation Establishment Pill revealed at the end.

All of it was tempting him and testing his mind.

Then, they abruptly revealed that Luo Chen had been withholding his skills and embezzling resources.

Anyone else under such tremendous pressure might have cracked.

But Luo Chen had experienced a lot of power plays from superiors in his past life.

Especially when Mi Shuhua handed that sealed Foundation Establishment Pill over to him.

He knew right away, this was the typical stick and carrot tactic.

”This old coot’s leadership skills are truly refined.”

Playing with the jade box, Luo Chen could easily guess that the Foundation Establishment Pill inside was most likely the one that was supposed to belong to Qin Liangchen.

Now that Mi Shuhua had given it to him, wasn’t it just to estrange him from Qin Liangchen?

Within the Broken Mountain Gang, apart from Wang Yuan, his best relationships were with Qin Liangchen and his wife, and they could support each other.

Now that he had taken someone else’s Foundation Establishment Pill, he would inevitably start feeling distant from Qin Liangchen.

But this thing, it’s in sight, but you can’t eat it!

It was purely made to make people feel sick!

One pill kills two warriors?

No, including the cultivators who died because of this Foundation Establishment Pill, there were more than two!

In the end, he was too careless.

After reaching Perfection Level proficiency with the Jade Marrow Pill, he started mass production in order not to give Mi Shuhua too much anxiety.

Without Grandmaster Level proficiency, he couldn’t control the rate of success very well.

Mi Shuhua was very observant. He only needed to look into Luo Chen’s past sales of Allure Pills and he could have guessed that Luo Chen was being deliberately incompetent.

What a cunning old fox... Wait a minute!

Luo Chen frowned, ”He found out through the Pill Hall’s account book, but if he knew about it before, why didn’t he say anything?”

The proportion of an elixir’s grade has a massive impact on profits.

The profit here is not one or two Spirit Stones, but hundreds, even tens of thousands of Spirit Stones!

”I occasionally embezzle a bit, but he wouldn’t mind. But when it comes to such enormous profits, he should’ve talked to me about it a long time ago.”

”Which means, he must’ve just found out recently!”

Upon realizing this, Luo Chen could only mutter ”Old coot”.

But at the very least, he still had something up his sleeve.