"Alchemy? It used to exist, but alchemists weren't much use anymore, so in time they disappeared."
"Alchemists were useless? They could refine the treasures of heaven and earth into pills, which were even more helpful for cultivation. How could they be useless?"
"There are already so few treasures of heaven and earth. If we let alchemists waste them however they please, won't there be even fewer?"
"Pills do help with cultivation, but if they waste all the treasures of heaven and earth, what will they use to make pills?"
"So everyone agreed to let alchemists disappear. We couldn't afford to make our already-scarce treasures of heaven and earth even scarcer."
Chen Changan hadn't expected the treasures of heaven and earth in the Eternal Land to be so scarce.
They were worried that alchemists would waste them all? Just how scarce were they?
"Isn't the Eternal Land supposed to be a very advanced place? Shouldn't it produce plenty of high-grade treasures of heaven and earth? Did you people use them all up just because you're immortal?" Chen Changan asked helplessly.
"There's nothing we can do about it. You haven't seen how many people fight over the treasures of heaven and earth."
"None of them can kill each other, but no one's willing to give up. Sometimes they'll fight for a thousand years or more rather than let go."
Good grief. A fight that lasted a thousand years? That was a rare oddity even among oddities.
"Does the Li Family have any treasures of heaven and earth?" Chen Changan asked curiously.
"You think far too highly of the Li Family. Even if we had something like that, we wouldn't want it. It'd be a hot potato. If the Li Family couldn't protect it, we'd be better off never having owned it in