From Beginner to Mastery

True Person Lieyang left the room, then quickly returned, handing over a jade vial the color of white frost.

"This is the Gui Water Meridian Cleansing Pill. Will you be paying with Spirit Stones, Fellow Daoist, or through some other means?"

"Of course, with Contribution Points."

Ji An took out his Alchemist jade badge. Over the past few decades, he had accepted many assignments from the association and earned a great many Contribution Points, yet he had spent very few of them. He had been saving them all to exchange for late Golden Core-level pill formulas.

True Person Lieyang knew his situation. Taking the jade badge, he said, "It will cost twenty-six thousand Contribution Points. I think it's rather wasteful for you to hoard so many Contribution Points. Better to let them serve their purpose now."

Ji An shook his head. "Stop trying to fool me. The things I can exchange for right now aren't all that useful to me."

He picked up the jade vial, poured the pill into his palm to inspect it, then put it away.

The first thing he would do after returning was raise the Azure Water Turtle's realm. He could not let it keep dragging down the average strength of his beast-controlling team.

True Person Lieyang deducted the Contribution Points and returned the jade badge. "I received word that a batch of Vajra Pills will need to be refined in a few months. I can assign you fifty furnaces' worth. Is that acceptable?"

"As long as there are Contribution Points to earn, I have no problem with it."

Ji An was still some distance away from having enough Contribution Points to exchange for late Golden Core-level pills, so he could not afford to relax. "How is the situation in the Mist Mountain region now?