Gu He flew to the top floor of the giant tower. Upon seeing him, the nearby guards hurriedly lowered their heads in salute, then led him toward the grand hall where Xuan Kongzi worked. Clearly, they had been instructed to let Gu He in directly whenever they saw him.
Entering Xuan Kongzi's office, Gu He did not stand on ceremony. He pulled over a chair and sat down, saying, "President, I'm short on some high-grade medicinal ingredients and would like to exchange for them directly through the Pill Tower. What is the process?"
Xuan Kongzi looked up, his tone helpless. "You came to see me just for this?"
"Of course! Without high-grade medicinal ingredients, it's difficult for me to refine pills. This is important, not some trivial matter," Gu He said seriously.
Pill refinement could not only help him grow familiar with his Half-Saint cultivation and fully master his rapidly increased strength, but also allow him to adapt to the soul power enhanced by his rising cultivation, further advancing his pill-refining skills. However, to achieve that, he needed to refine even higher-grade pills. Ordinary Eighth-grade pills would not do; they had to be Eighth-grade pills capable of drawing at least Six-colored Pill Lightning. Refining such high-grade pills naturally required an enormous quantity of high-grade medicinal ingredients.
"The Pill Tower does have some medicinal ingredients suitable for refining pills that can draw Seven-colored Pill Lightning. But if you want to refine even higher-grade pills, most of the ingredients will have to be gathered yourself. The Pill Tower does not have much stock of medicinal ingredients at that level either, and every elder has a certain exchange quota. Even the ingredients for the Ninth-grade Treasure Pills that Tian Lei Zi, Xuan Yi, and I are preparing to refine were mostly gathered by