Ziling saw this and immediately ran back to her bedroom, took out all her spirit stones, then returned to the sitting room and presented them to Jiang Ping'an.
"Young Master, this servant also fully supports you," she said.
In fact, when purchasing the spirit herbs and medicinal ingredients for the Youth Preserving Pill, Ziling had strongly insisted on paying with spirit stones, but Jiang Ping'an had firmly refused.
Jiang Ping'an laughed. "Haha, many thanks, Ziling."
As he spoke, he accepted Ziling's spirit stones as well.
The next morning, Jiang Ping'an began refining the Youth Preserving Pill. Yu Lianhua and Ziling both waited. Yu Lianhua waited in the main hall while sipping spirit tea, while Ziling stood outside the Alchemy Room.
Half a day later, the Alchemy Room door opened, and Jiang Ping'an emerged. Ziling immediately rushed up to him in delight and asked, "Young Master, did the Youth Preserving Pill succeed?"
"Haha, it did." Jiang Ping'an laughed as he reached out and touched Ziling's smooth, fair cheek, delicate enough to break with a puff.
Ziling cried excitedly, "Congratulations, Young Master!"
Hearing the commotion, Yu Lianhua immediately hurried over from the main hall and asked, "Ping'an, how is the quality of the Youth Preserving Pills?"
"Here." Smiling, Jiang Ping'an handed her a white jade spirit pill bottle.
Yu Lianhua accepted the white jade spirit pill bottle, pulled out its stopper, and poured all the Youth Preserving Pills inside into her palm. There were two in total.
She examined the Youth Preserving Pills carefully and discovered that both were of perfect quality.
For a moment, she could not help crying out in delighted surprise, "Perfect quality! Both are of perfect quality!"
How could they not both be perfect quality? Of the ten Youth Preserving Pills from that batch, six had been of