Chapter 38: Twenty Percent

"Alright, now that the Medicinal Pill refinement is complete, we can open the furnace."

Azure Flame stood up, stroked his beard, and smiled.

He had considerable confidence in his Alchemy, and moreover, what he had refined this time was a low-level pill; for him, there was simply no possibility of failure.

"Open the furnace!" Family Head Qin Yuan shouted as he opened the alchemy furnace.

Plump, pattern-filled pills lay in the center of the furnace.

Qin Yuan carefully took them out one by one, placing them in his palm for close observation.

"These are qi gathering pills, and they are High Grade qi gathering pills at that."

An Elder cried out in surprise.

Indeed, these pills all had six veins, marking them as High Grade pills.

The Elders gathered around Qin Yuan, scrutinizing the pills meticulously while making clicking sounds of admiration.

Qin Qing glanced at the pills and turned her small Face away.

She didn't know what these people were marveling at; the spirit gathering pills her brother refined were much better looking than these.

Furthermore, why would her brother need so much time to refine pills? This old man had spent a whole hour on it.

When her brother refined pills, it took fifteen minutes at most.

Once Qin Yuan had removed all the pills from the furnace, the Elders cried out in surprise once more:

"Wow! Ten qi gathering pills! Ten in one furnace—that's the maximum yield. Elder Qing's Alchemy technique is truly superb.

And most importantly, these are actually… High Grade pills."

Qin Yuan carefully packed the pills into a jade bottle, walked up to Azure Flame, and bowed, saying:

"Elder Qing, your Alchemy technique is truly eye-opening. I offended you just now; please do not take offense."

The Elder who had questioned Elder Qing also stepped forward and bowed, saying:

"Elder Qing, please be magnanimous and forgive my pettiness; I offended you just now."

Azure Flame immediately helped Qin Yuan and the Elder up, smiling as he said:

"We are all one Family now. Family members don't need to speak to each other like strangers!"

"Right! Right!" Qin Yuan laughed heartily upon hearing Azure Flame's words. "Family members don't need to speak like strangers."

"Haha…" Everyone in the study burst into laughter.

The Qin Family Members all felt that the Family's crisis had passed.

During this period, they had all felt a suffocating pressure, but now it was better; with a Great Master of the Dao of Alchemy joining them, their Family would not only survive this crisis.

Once the Qin Family's foundation grew, they would become the fourth of the Four Great Families of Liu City.

How could they not feel utterly refreshed?

"Elder Qing, this bottle of pills was refined by you. Here, take it back!"

Qin Yuan handed the pills to Azure Flame.

All the spirit plants used to refine the pills belonged to Azure Flame, and the pills were refined by him as well, so they naturally belonged to him.

"Eh," Azure Flame waved his hand and said:

"Consider these pills a gift for just having joined the Qin Family."

Hearing this, Qin Yuan no longer declined and accepted the pills.

Since Elder Qing had put it that way, if he didn't accept, it would imply he didn't welcome him.

Qin Yuan thought for a moment, looked at Azure Flame, and said:

"Elder Qing, how about this? We will handle the sales of all the pills you refine. You will receive eighty percent of the profits, and we will take twenty percent."

"It should be so! It should be so!" The Elders also felt this ratio was very reasonable.

Elder Qing's willingness to come to their Qin Family was giving the Qin Family Face, and it was for the sake of the Qin Family's Eldest Young Master.

Furthermore, Alchemists held an exalted status; they were merely assisting with sales and would still get twenty percent of the profit—they were already very satisfied.

If word got out in Liu City, plenty of families would beg Elder Qing to join them.

Even the City Lord and the three other great families of Liu City would scramble to have Elder Qing join them.

Never mind a twenty percent profit; even if it were only ten percent, they would be overjoyed.

At twenty percent, they were the ones getting the better end of the deal.