Crimson Flame Pavilion

Guanghan True Person's family pill shop had been open for more than ten years. Under the overt and covert suppression of competitors, it could barely stay afloat.

The forces suppressing them included the shops that had long supplied the family with medicinal materials, because those parties only wanted them to remain Raw Material Suppliers.

She truly could not resign herself to transferring the shop away. A fire was bottled up inside her—if the family wanted to grow stronger, it could not remain merely a supplier of materials.

Spirit herbs could only yield greater profits once refined into pills. Unfortunately, the family's foundation in alchemy was weak, and they could only refine Qi Condensation Stage and Foundation Establishment Stage Pills.

With competition so fierce, the profits were relatively meager.

There were many alchemists in the immortal city, and those without sufficient skill found it difficult to get by. The family's alchemists could only recoup their costs when refining second-order pills. Their skills had hit a bottleneck and improved too slowly; for now, they could not venture into refining third-order pills.

Ji An asked about the pill shop's location and basic circumstances. Finding them fairly satisfactory, he noted that it was only one street away from the Certification Association, then asked, "What is the annual rent for the shop?"

"Under normal circumstances, rent for a shop in that location fluctuates around three thousand High-grade Spirit Stones. If Fellow Daoist agrees to help train my clan members, then only two thousand four hundred High-grade Spirit Stones will be needed.

"There is no need for any special training. Fellow Daoist only needs to guide them in refining one furnace of second-order pills every month."

Guanghan True Person had learned from Zhang Jun that someone was seeking to rent a shop, so she had deliberately