Yuanqing Courtyard.
Yang Chan's study contained a great deal of information on Lu Feng, all of it organized and covering his entire career.
Most of it concerned his recent alchemy records.
Overall, Lu Feng was a Third-level Alchemist capable of refining pills that assisted with Marrow Cleansing once. He was not proficient in many types of pills, and the recommendation was for Yang Chan to choose the Seven-Revolutions Organ Nourishing Pill.
As for Lu Feng's hopes, he wanted to compete with Yang Chan in refining the Meridian Nourishing Marrow Cleansing Pill.
Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated in a hundred battles.
After reading the information, Yang Chan lowered his assessment of Lu Feng's threat by another level.
Even at his opponent's strongest specialty, the Meridian Nourishing Marrow Cleansing Pill, Lu Feng's premium-quality completion rate was still inferior to his own.
This was only the strength Lu Feng had displayed before. Even if he had concealed something, it would not be much. After all, he was no longer young.
In alchemy, it was rare for someone's refining ability to improve faster the older they became. Older people could not keep up in terms of energy, while the higher the grade of the pill, the more energy the entire refinement process required. One lapse of attention, and the refinement would fail outright.
Therefore, once one reached a certain age, not only could one no longer improve one's alchemy ability, one's ability would instead decline. That was the norm.
The rate at which alchemy ability improved also slowed more and more with age. This was a normal phenomenon.
Late-blooming great talents were exceedingly rare among Pharmacists—one could even say they did not exist.
At least, Yang Chan had never heard of such a person.
"Since you want