Anything that helped improve one's cultivation was expensive, and pills were the most effective items for raising cultivation. Thus, among the hundred arts of cultivation, alchemy was held in the highest esteem.
High-grade pills were not easy to purchase from outside sources. Qin Yan had once received pills as payment partly through luck; he happened to possess Spiritual Materials the other party desperately needed.
Ji An said with a half-smile, "Shouldn't you be asking Lin Lan about the pill supply? Or Han Yan at the Pill Cauldron Institute?"
He had not concerned himself with the sect's mundane affairs for many years. If they needed him to personally refine pills, they only needed to send the medicinal materials to him.
Qin Yan waved his hand with a bitter smile and said:
"Senior Brother, don't tease me. We only began planting medicinal materials for refining Fourth Order Spirit Pills after the sect's Spirit Vein rose to the fourth order.
"We will have to wait at least another two hundred years for those materials to mature.
"Unless the Spirit Herbs in Senior Brother's small world mature, I can only wait bitterly."
The medicinal materials used to refine fourth order low-grade Spirit Pills needed to be nearly three thousand years old, and cultivating them required more than three hundred years.
Senior Brother was the sect's strongest Spirit Farmer, but he often traveled outside now. The Spirit Herbs planted on Crimson Flame Peak were all being tended by True Monarch Wuyue.
Though the Five-Colored Deer was a Heavenly Beast with a powerful bloodline, its planting abilities fell far short of Senior Brother's.
"Then you will have to wait a while longer. The Gourd World has enough medicinal materials for five furnaces of Jade Dew Condensing Flower Pills. They will likely need another thirty years before