Overbearing Greed, Rumors Have Led Me Astray! (Please Vote Monthly)

The four of them—He Lianyun and the others—must have prepared for this meeting for a long time!

This was no baseless speculation.

From sending the invitation to presenting the Pill Recipe now, not a single step in between had been pointless.

Just as when he had first entered, the three Great Cultivators had jointly pressured Luo Chen. They had clearly been testing his strength.

Moreover, the Pill Refiner chosen to refine this pill had likely been carefully selected before they approached Luo Chen.

The Pill Refiners of major sects might have possessed greater Pill Refining skill. Someone like Fu Jiusheng definitely knew a few Tier 3 Alchemists.

Yet they had not dared seek their help.

The reason was simple. They had no conditions capable of moving the other party, and the Pill Recipe might also have attracted covetous eyes.

By comparison, Luo Chen's Pill Refining skill was renowned, and he himself needed to enter the Core Formation Stage.

He did not need any additional conditions at all. Luo Chen would be tempted on his own.

Finally!

There was the preparation of all the materials listed above.

Luo Chen looked at the four of them in confusion. "Can you really gather all these materials?"

He pointed at the Bamboo Slip and said solemnly, "The materials required for the Nether Origin Pill are no simple commodities. Even if I were to purchase them myself, I'm afraid it would take more than a century to gather them all."

Yet He Lianyun was brimming with confidence.

"Fellow Daoist may be underestimating this old man."

"Though the Connecting Cloud Commerce Alliance has declined, its century of operations was no sham. Of the materials listed here, I can produce sixty percent right now."

"As for the remaining forty percent, if we spend a few years, we