Fake Husband of the Glamorous CEO-Chapter 505: The First Pot of Gold

Jiang Ruolin failed once more.

After the second and third consecutive failures, she felt her cheeks redden as she glanced at Gu Feng.

She saw him looking at her with a smile, but couldn’t tell if he was gloating or what.

She grumbled, "Laugh all you want, but when we run out of money, I’ll see how you manage."

Gu Feng wasn’t actually laughing at her.

After being sealed for tens of thousands of years, he cherished the sight of an old, familiar, and close person bouncing around lively, expressing her happiness, anger, sorrow, and joy.

As a god, he could create beings out of those familiar people from the past.

But they would only be lifeless entities, merely human shells with the minds of wild beasts.

Wisdom and civilization were something even a god needed to evolve through endless time.

Gu Feng said, "It’s okay, if we run out of money, you can be a homeless wanderer with me, I’ll take you anywhere you want to go."

"I’m not going to become some wanderer." Jiang Ruolin rolled her eyes and turned away, her face flushing briefly.

How could it sound somewhat romantic when this guy was suggesting she become a beggar?

She quickly returned her attention to the pill furnace.

And continued to attempt the process a few more times.

But the results were still all failures!

Finally, when they were down to their last batch, Gu Feng hesitantly proposed, "What if we, you know, give a dead horse the treatment for a live one, and I give it a try?"

"How would you try?" Jiang Ruolin gave him a blank look, "At least you need to be in the Qi Refinement Realm with Qi in your body to operate the furnace and control the flames."

Gu Feng said, "But I have you, right? You can help me with the fire control."

Jiang Ruolin could understand the eagerness of a mortal who might also want to try their hand at alchemy.

After all, it was expensive, and something mortals dare not attempt with their savings.

So given the chance, they wanted to give it a try.

"Let’s do it," Jiang Ruolin decided to write off this batch of medicinal materials.

Let’s just accept the loss of tens of thousands.

Gu Feng stepped forward, looked into the pill furnace, and said, "Remember what I told you before? Try doing it that way."

Jiang Ruolin first arranged the other missing medicinal materials and processes, then made changes to the details following Gu Feng’s instructions.

Then she closed the lid.

As Jiang Ruolin’s Qi power output began, the flames started to burn.

When it was time to reduce the flame, Gu Feng gently pressed down on her wrist.

Jiang Ruolin then appropriately lowered the flames.

When it was time to increase the heat, Gu Feng lifted the back of her hand.

After several such adjustments, several minutes passed, surpassing the duration that Jiang Ruolin usually needed for refining elixirs.

Jiang Ruolin saw that there had been no explosion in the furnace and her eyes began to gleam slightly with hope.

"Huh?"

Then she looked up at Gu Feng’s profile.

Focused, Gu Feng’s long hair was slightly disheveled by the flickering firelight, his brow exuding the charm of a mature, stable man.

"Stoke the fire," he said softly.

"Oh," Jiang Ruolin, distracted by staring at his side profile, was promptly reminded and immediately shifted her gaze to the side, wondering if her flushed face was caused by the reflection of the flames.

More time passed, and still, there was no explosion inside the pill furnace.

The furnace was even improbably stable.

Normally, if there was a chemical reaction between the medicinal powers or if they opposed each other while merging, it would cause the furnace to shake.

But the Pill Furnace was steady as a rock.

Until the end, when Gu Feng gently lifted Jiang Ruolin’s hands to signal her to stop controlling the fire, signaling the end, the Pill Furnace had not made any movements.

Then, Gu Feng lifted the lid with his bare hands.

A strong smell of elixir success filled the air.

Jiang Ruolin’s eyes immediately lit up when she smelled the scent of the finished Elixir, "No way, you really know your stuff!"

Then, in excitement, she quickly stepped forward, stretched her neck to peek inside the Pill Furnace, and to her amazement, several completed Elixirs were emitting a fragrant aroma in the steam.

Jiang Ruolin picked one up to check its quality and was overjoyed: "Wow, Fifth-grade!"

"And there are five!"

"Hahaha."

After all, Jiang Ruolin was an 18-year-old rebellious girl, who probably had never seen such a successful Alchemy experience in her life, very excited and happy.

In a moment, perhaps getting carried away, she subconsciously wrapped her arms around Gu Feng’s neck, then hugged him happily, "We’ve made our money back, we’re rich, rich!"

Gu Feng didn’t interrupt her joyful mood and asked, "How much can we sell them for?"

"One can sell for 150,000, these five can be sold for 600,000, we’ve earned an extra 400,000!" Jiang Ruolin naturally pulled away from Gu Feng and went back in front of the Pill Furnace to jot down the procedure she had just performed.

"That’s not much though," Gu Feng was somewhat disappointed.

"Not much? One batch of Medicinal Materials can be refined seven or eight times, and as long as one time is successful, you’ll at least get one Elixir. Even if you succeed twice out of seven or eight times, or get one mid-grade Elixir, you’ll have a high probability of making your investment back. Overall, if your success rate is high, this Alchemy business is quite profitable."

Jiang Ruolin, while speaking, suddenly couldn’t remember the elements of the fire control step. She turned her head towards Gu Feng and said, "Can you copy the fire control timing sheet for me?"

After saying that, Jiang Ruolin realized she was stealing someone else’s technique.

"Sorry, I think I got a bit excited about those equations you mentioned."

Gu Feng, unconcerned, conjured up a timing sheet from his hand: "Here."

Jiang Ruolin was taken aback.

After seeing the actual timing sheet, she looked at Gu Feng, "Aren’t you afraid I’ll learn it and earn a lot of money?"

Gu Feng: "Just learn it."

After putting away the timing sheet, Jiang Ruolin sincerely said, "Then, once I earn money, I’ll definitely save up to buy you a Spirit Cleansing Pill!"

Gu Feng: "How much is a Spirit Cleansing Pill?"

Jiang Ruolin: "Very expensive, after all, it’s a class-three Elixir that allows Mortals to cultivate, and can only be made by Cultivators of the Sixth Layer Heaven. It’s usually cheaper to buy with Spirit Stones, but if you’re using Mortal currency, it might cost 2 billion!"

"Okay," Gu Feng said.

Then he had a reason to stick around Jiang Ruolin until she could afford the Spirit Cleansing Pill.

Jiang Ruolin, having obtained new Alchemy Techniques, was very happy: "Let’s go, buy some more Medicinal Materials, we’ll refine some more Elixirs tonight. The National War is next month, let’s take this opportunity to earn some more."

Then, Gu Feng watched as Jiang Ruolin booked an Alchemy Room for the entire night.

She refined Elixirs all night to verify the equations Gu Feng had given her.

When the door of the Alchemy Room opened the next day,

As the medicine smell that had lingered all night dispersed, other Alchemists in the cycle knew by the smell that the person in this room had a harvest.

Curiously, they asked, "Not bad, did you make or lose money?"

Gu Feng didn’t answer, and Jiang Ruolin modestly replied: "It’s okay."

Then, she pulled Gu Feng and happily left the Alchemy Room,

Ready to sell and cash in at the market.

"182 mid-grade, hehe, rich!" Jiang Ruolin conjured her flying sword from the Storage Ring, worried Gu Feng had never ridden a flying sword and might not stand steady, she reminded him, "Stand firm."

Then, she took the initiative to hold Gu Feng’s hand, and the two of them flew off on the sword.

In the end, as she had said, they sold each for 150,000 and made a total of over 27 million, while the cost was less than 3 million.

Curious to see she had sold them all, Gu Feng asked, "Aren’t you keeping any for the National War?"

Jiang Ruolin, with a sense of her own limits, said, "I’m just in the Qi Refining Late Stage, how can I fight against those at the Peak of Core Formation? I’m just cannon fodder anyway, every time their Magical Treasures drop from the sky, they can squash a bunch of Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivators. Having the pills wouldn’t make a difference."