Chapter 83: Alchemy is Burning Money

"Hahaha..." Li Nianlong patted Zhao Tianming's shoulder and burst into laughter. "Brother, my condolences!"

Although they were roommates, back in the day, Li Nianlong was too busy changing girlfriends every day to pay much attention to Zhao Tianming and Zhao Xin's affairs. Plus, with Zhao Tianming and Zhao Xin's status, it wasn't possible for them to cause a sensation throughout the city, even a 'small character' like him knew that. Today was the first time he had heard Zhao Tianming talk about him and Zhao Xin's situation, and learning that Zhao Tianming was so miserable made Li Nianlong unable to resist laughing.

He had to laugh, and laugh heartily at that. Laugh at Zhao Tianming's misfortune until he felt like banging his head against the wall to be satisfied.

"Damn it! Don't mock me like that." Zhao Tianming was so angry that he even flipped Li Nianlong off. "As the saying goes: Don't count your chickens before they hatch! When you marry your sister-in-law, you might end up worse off than me!"

Li Nianlong stopped laughing and glanced at Nalan Ruyue, who was busy in the kitchen, with his arms crossed. "Do you believe that yourself?"

A strong sense of confidence made Zhao Tianming OTZ: Sister-in-law, you can't be too gentle!

After more than two years of not seeing each other, the reunion of the two brothers turned into a venting session for Zhao Tianming, making Li Nianlong laugh and cry. Finally, unable to bear it, Li Nianlong kicked him out of the door with one foot: "Get out! Go complain to your own wife!"

"Ah! I'll definitely come back..." Zhao Tianming drove away in his car.

Watching Zhao Tianming leave, Nalan Ruyue smiled and gestured with her hands: Brother, your friend is really funny.

"If you really think he's funny, you'll be played to death by him sooner or later." Li Nianlong's face darkened: His purpose for coming this time isn't so simple.

Meanwhile, after driving away, Zhao Tianming's slightly blurred eyes gradually regained clarity. His fingertips fell on the window, and a few drops of alcohol were expelled from his body through his fingertips.

Taking a deep breath, Zhao Tianming placed his hands on the steering wheel, recalling every bit of his time with Li Nianlong. A smile appeared on his lips: "Although he's similar in physique, Brother Long doesn't have any True Qi reactions like before, so he probably isn't Kung Fu Panda."

Correct, Zhao Tianming came to find Li Nianlong this time not to obtain information about Old Man Liu's time at Li Nianlong's house, but because a US financial consortium offered ten billion dollars to purchase the true identity of Kung Fu Panda.

Ten billion dollars was not a small amount. It was enough to keep the Black Rat Gang running smoothly for fifty years. The purpose of the US financial consortium was simply to obtain the real identity of Kung Fu Panda in reality. Such a deal was too profitable to pass up, how could the Black Rat Gang let it go?

As the deputy leader of the Black Rat Gang, Zhao Tianming immediately thought of Li Nianlong when he first saw the video footage of Kung Fu Panda. Kung Fu Panda's height and physique were very similar to Li Nianlong's. However, Kung Fu Panda's incredible combat power displayed in the video was completely different from the Li Nianlong he knew.

Considering their roommate friendship from university, Zhao Tianming specifically came to find Li Nianlong after more than two years and personally tested Li Nianlong with True Qi. The punch he threw let him know that Li Nianlong's body was empty and devoid of any internal energy. This made Zhao Tianming basically dismiss the speculation that Li Nianlong was Kung Fu Panda. He just didn't expect Li Nianlong to be the illegitimate grandson of Old Man Liu, nor did he expect Old Man Liu to invite Li Nianlong with the position of the head of the Liu family.

Families and clans often have many troubles. Zhao Tianming had long had a deep understanding of this. Besides feeling a little surprised by this news, he didn't find it particularly shocking. His father was different... cough cough!

After ruling out the suspicion that Li Nianlong was Kung Fu Panda, Zhao Tianming felt a little relieved. He was afraid that if Li Nianlong turned out to be Kung Fu Panda, he would betray his four years of brotherhood and his conscience would be greatly condemned.

But since Li Nianlong wasn't Kung Fu Panda, where was the real Kung Fu Panda?

The situation in Tianfu was becoming increasingly unstable, despite decades of peace.

Late at night, third floor of the villa.

Li Nianlong lay on the bed, his consciousness entering the system interface, third-level permission—Alchemy Room.

"The Alchemy Room provides the host with a place for independent alchemy. All the methods for refining pills are recorded in the Alchemy Room's Alchemy Handbook. The host can freely browse all pill formulas below their own level. The medicinal ingredients for refining pills need to be purchased by the host in the shop. The price of medicinal ingredients will be relatively high, but the success rate of alchemy is only 50%. The host should be prepared for financial loss."

Damn it!

Being able to alchemy is certainly a good thing, but why are the prices of medicinal ingredients high? Why is the success rate only 50%? And why the special reminder to be prepared for financial loss?

System, are you trying to drive me crazy?

Li Nianlong glared fiercely at the dragonfly.

"I'm just guiding the little elf..."

Damn it!

At level thirty, the shop finally opened the third floor. Li Nianlong didn't pay attention to any other shops and immediately rushed into the drugstore.

The drugs on the third floor were even more powerful. There were all-purpose pills that increased all four attributes by +1, attribute pills that increased each of the four attributes by +3, experience pills that increased experience by 10000, and various other strange pills. Looking at them made Li Nianlong's mouth water, but looking at the prices, the lowest was 100,000 and the highest was 500,000.

Li Nianlong OTZed.

The all-purpose pills, attribute pills, and experience pills all had quantity limits. Each type of pill could only be taken three times at most. Li Nianlong gritted his teeth and spent over two million buying three all-purpose pills, twelve different attribute pills, and three experience pills, and as soon as he got them, he stuffed them all into his mouth.

"The host consumes three all-purpose pills, three strength attribute pills, three speed attribute pills, three True Qi attribute pills, three intelligence attribute pills, and three experience pills. Strength +12, speed +12, True Qi +12, intelligence +12, experience +30000."

Damn it! Spending over two million soft sister coins just to get this little gain, Li Nianlong wished he could immediately refine a god pill that added all four attributes by 100, and refine ten thousand of them, becoming invincible, and then kill Long Zongh

eng, dominate the world, and rule the entire universe...

"Do you want to buy low-level attribute pill ingredients?" When the old man in the drugstore heard that Li Nianlong wanted to buy materials for refining low-level attribute pills, he looked surprised. "What are you buying those things for? Although low-level attribute pills have no limit on the number of times they can be taken, the cost of each pill is too high, and they only increase one attribute by 1 point, which is not cost-effective."

"Money is not a problem!" Li Nianlong gritted his teeth. He had just earned fifty million by selling information today. Li Nianlong planned to spend all this money buying materials and refining low-level attribute pills with no limit on the number of times they could be taken.

With a 50% success rate in the Alchemy Room, the cost price of low-level attribute pills was at least 500,000 each. Spending 500,000 to increase one single attribute point was extravagant no matter how you looked at it, even the old man in the drugstore thought Li Nianlong was too extravagant.

But there was no other way. Who made low-level attribute pills have a ridiculous 'no limit on the number of times they can be taken' feature! He would invest fifty million to get 100 attribute points. It was worth it.

But it really burns money! The fifty million that had just been obtained was not even warmed up yet! It was all spent by Li Nianlong in one go.

"You spendthrift." The old man looked at Li Nianlong with a look of disdain and shook his head, accepting the fifty million, and traded the medicinal materials designated by Li Nianlong in quantity. Finally, he couldn't help but 'encourage' him: "You're the first spendthrift I've ever seen. I have other medicinal materials here. Next time, I can give you a ninety-nine percent discount."

Ninety-nine percent discount? Go to hell with your circles and crosses!

With tears in his eyes, Li Nianlong, full of resentment, carried a large amount of medicinal materials back to the Alchemy Room. Following the method of refining low-level attribute pills in the Alchemy Handbook, he carefully sorted the different medicinal materials and put them into the pill furnace in order, starting his first experience of alchemy.