After the Haoran Sect's Sect Grand Competition ended, a tide of cultivation followed. Disciples who had gained insights during the competition, broken through at the last moment, or discovered their own shortcomings all began secluded cultivation, wanting to turn what they had realized into actual cultivation.
Yunxi also entered a brief seclusion, mainly to study knowledge related to formations. This shortcoming had to be made up for.
Before entering seclusion, however, she used the excuse of seeking True Person Danyang's guidance in Alchemy and took Dian Dian to Alchemy Peak, with Zonghao introducing her, of course.
True Person Danyang was not surprised by Yunxi's visit. From his disciple Wei Zonghao, he had learned that Yunxi's maternal family was an alchemy clan and that she had been exposed to Alchemy from a very young age.
Together with her connection to True Lord Yuling, True Person Danyang was quite willing to befriend Yunxi. It was not true that technical cultivators had no need for friends; rather, cultivators like them needed to build ties with powerful cultivators all the more.
Everyone knew that alchemists were generally combat-power-five weaklings. There were rarely pill cultivators who could both refine pills and fight well, because alchemy consumed enormous amounts of time and energy. That destined them to excel in only one path, unless they were those extraordinarily gifted hexagonal cultivators.
Thus, once a pill cultivator's alchemy reached a certain level, they easily attracted the covetous eyes of others. Pills were indispensable aids for cultivators, so some people wanted to forcibly seize alchemists for their own use.
There had previously been incidents in the Cultivation Realm of alchemists being abducted, and afterward, the Weiyu Realm established the Pill Alliance specifically for that purpose.
Besides organizing alchemist examinations, assessing alchemist grades, and researching new pill formulas, the Pill