"We needn't be so discouraged. King Li's lifespan is nearly at its end. Given his current condition, he has at most a hundred years left. And as he is now, he's far from his prime. Even if he personally tended the furnace to refine pills, he might not be any better than Fellow Daoist Lu. With your astonishing alchemical skills, you're already unquestionably the chief Pill King in the Abyss Hall. Brother Ji saw that too, which is why he agreed to step in and smooth things over with King Li. He wanted to win your favor in advance."
Seeing little joy on Lu Xiaotian's face, Nan Chendu offered another word of reassurance. He had been astonished by the alchemical ability and remarkable output Lu Xiaotian had displayed, but after his surprise passed, he had also felt genuinely pleased.
Lu Xiaotian not only refined pills at an astonishing speed, but his success rate was also above average. Though he was still only a third-grade Pill King, all the other third-grade Pill Kings in the Abyss Hall together couldn't match him.
Ordinary third-grade Pill Kings expended considerable divine sense and magical power when refining spiritual pills. After working for a while, they had to rest. Lu Xiaotian, however, had no such concern. After refining several kinds of spiritual pills that even other third-grade Pill Kings had very low success rates with, he had completely won over his fellow alchemists in the Abyss Hall.
In these circumstances, Nan Chendu naturally felt Lu Xiaotian had every chance of advancing to fourth-grade Pill King. So when Lu Xiaotian proposed meeting King Li to discuss the Dao of alchemy after failing to refine a batch of Buddha-Dust Bone-Cleansing Pills, Nan Chendu had spared no effort to make it happen. The help Lu Xiaotian could offer