"You know it's an unreasonable demand!"
"Heh, you're young, but your appetite is really enormous."
"Too much!"
The speakers, in order, were Ke Yuelin, Sikong Shoujia, and Mi Junping, who had not spoken a word until now.
Luo Chen committed each of those names to memory.
He shook his head. "Not much, really not much. You can't imagine how high the profits from pills are. Take my All Wonders Pill—one batch costs only five Spirit Stones, yet it sells for dozens. Asking for half truly isn't much."
"And that's not much?" Ke Yuelin sneered. "You know the profits are high, and you think you deserve half?"
He said it as though it were only natural. Mi Shuhua, Mi Junping, and the others beside him all nodded in agreement.
But Ke Yuelin did not see how dark his sworn elder brother Qin Liangchen's expression had become.
Yet Luo Chen seemed wholly unconcerned by his sneer and continued to complain bitterly. "Then what should we do? You'll refine the pills? Hall Master Ke, you cut such a fine figure, and you raise pigs so well. I imagine your skill with medicinal herbs and furnace flames must be sheer perfection too!"
Ke Yuelin froze where he stood.
If he had that kind of skill, then with his Qi Refining Ninth Layer cultivation, why would he need to raise pigs and cattle in this backwater?
Well, the Beast Hall was in charge of that sort of thing.
The Mountain Shattering Gang did not merely hunt demon beasts. It also raised some low-tier wild beasts that were easy to tame.
They were left to range through the Ancient Origin Mountain Range and nurtured by spiritual energy. Over time, this ensured a stable supply of low-tier demon beasts.
Calling the master of the Beast Hall a