Chapter 222

Of course, the individual equipment alone for an ordinary officer or soldier of the Bohai Legion cost no less than one thousand taels of silver. This did not even include the expenses for food, Spirit Medicine, cultivation techniques, martial skills, training grounds, and accommodation consumed by all the soldiers of the Bohai Legion. To say nothing else, take the lowest-grade Junior Body Tempering Pill, which continuously improves the soldiers' cultivation physiques—on average, virtually every soldier in the Bohai Legion had already consumed at least two of them. The market price of a single Junior Body Tempering Pill was twelve thousand taels of silver, so two pills already amounted to twenty-four thousand taels. Furthermore, those ordinary officers and soldiers who had advanced above the Third-tier of Martial Practitioner but remained below the level of Greater Martial Master consumed a much greater quantity. Consequently, the Junior Body Tempering pills currently consumed by the fifty thousand officers and soldiers of the Bohai Legion were no less than one hundred thousand. If converted into silver taels, this astronomical figure far exceeded one billion. Moreover, if one were to truly purchase all of them with silver, it was far from certain how many could actually be bought; after all, warhorses were already fetching three hundred taels each. If one were to purchase one hundred thousand Junior Body Tempering Pills, there was no telling how high the price of these pills…