What Li Ping hadn't expected was that because Xu Yi had once served under him, he couldn't very well appoint him as the steward of Fish Mouth Peak. That would only put them in each other's shoes and make things awkward for both of them. Fish Mouth Peak had only just been established, and Jiang Xiao often brought her close friend Shao Zijun over to help.
Chen Bing was even busier, leading a group of menial workers in their endless daily toil. A newly established peak had no shortage of work, and the most important task was cultivating the Spiritual Plant Garden, which concerned Xu Yi's future. After advancing to the Yin Fish Realm, his primary task would be refining pills.
This task wasn't imposed on him by anyone. All the elders in the Yin Fish Realm took it on of their own accord, because advancement in the Yin Fish Realm depended entirely on tempering oneself with Profound Yellow Qi. The sect couldn't afford to provide the enormous quantities of Profound Yellow Pills required. Each year, it supplied every Yin Fish elder with only a thousand pills as their stipend.
The hope of advancing for Yin Fish Realm elders lay in refining their own Profound Yellow Pills. Fortunately, the fish fire of Yin Fish Realm cultivators was especially effective at improving one's pill-refining skills. As a result, almost all Yin Fish cultivators were genuine alchemists, though some had little talent and others had plenty.
Most weren't particularly accomplished at alchemy, so they could only make up for it with time. It was worth noting that the alchemists in each peak's Pill Hall were a separate matter. Their output was mostly used for the peaks' daily needs, which was how they could earn the honor of elderhood while still in the