Why were alchemists so popular?
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Because in this world, aside from cultivation techniques, pills were the best—and only—choice for defying fate and changing one's destiny!
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Those cultivation techniques beyond imagination could instantly double a warrior's strength once mastered, allowing them to fight above their level and kill those in higher realms... Just like Su Xiaobai, who, relying solely on his Advanced Warrior realm and the boosts from several Microscopic Level Techniques, could easily trample Advanced Martial Masters beneath his feet and crush them in every way!
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But how could cultivation techniques be so easy to master?
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Many people might obtain powerful cultivation techniques, but without sufficient comprehension, even the most incredible technique would be unable to display even half its power in their hands!
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Pills were different.
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The only difficult part about pills was spending a huge sum to acquire all kinds of medicinal ingredients, Fierce Beast Materials, rare treasures, and so on... As long as you had enough money to buy them, or enough treasures to trade for them, then found a high-grade alchemist to refine them, you would see immediate results after taking them!
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Even something innate like Cultivation Aptitude could be strengthened and modified after birth through pills!
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Of course, the prerequisite was that you had to spend enough resources and pay a sufficient price.
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An ordinary person with the Lowest Grade Cultivation Aptitude was destined to have no connection with the path of the Warrior in this lifetime... But if a powerful lineage was willing to pour resources into them recklessly, it was still possible to create a Quasi-Warrior, a Warrior, or even an Advanced Martial Master!
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However, no lineage would do such a thing.
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Because with the same amount of resources, they could completely