"Pharmacist Ku Tang, countless medicine masters in this world are all mediocre fools. Even my two senior brothers are not worth mentioning!"
"Looking across the present age, only you are worthy of a few more glances from me."
Evil Alchemist Qi Wei spoke with utter sincerity.
Three Flavors and Five Flavors, the two Spirit Medicine Masters, were the finest spirit medicine masters in the world, yet in his mouth, they were not worth mentioning.
Even if he was deliberately flattering him, he had raised Pharmacist Ku Tang far too high.
Pharmacist Ku Tang said stiffly, "Your flattery is useless. This old man would rather die than yield."
"Pharmacist Ku Tang, hear me out."
"I believe that only those who cast off the old and bring forth the new can be founding masters of the alchemy trade. Three Flavors and Five Flavors cling to old conventions, following the paths left behind by their predecessors. Their steps are steady, but they can hardly find a new road."
"But you are different. Once Demon Essence emerges, your name will be carved into the annals of history, and your fragrance will endure for a hundred generations!"
Evil Alchemist Qi Wei lifted the lid of a bronze cauldron half the height of a man behind him. Inside was... Demon Essence, rippling and swaying.
By conservative estimate, there were a full hundred tons of Demon Essence here.
Pharmacist Ku Tang's eyes nearly popped out. "How did you gather so much?"
Demon Essence was exceedingly rare. From a Demon Corpse the size of a mountain, one could at most refine half a bowl of Demon Essence. Apart from Zhou Nanwang and the father-son pair Zhou Daqian, there was no third person who could produce such a cauldronful in one go.
"I collected it bit by bit. Pharmacist