Another World
The years of warfare that had begun in the late Qing and early Republic had, over the better part of a century, reduced many good things to ashes or smashed them beyond repair, bringing them almost to complete extinction.
Three hundred years of Manchu rule had nearly caused a break in the continuity of civilization. It had truly been a regrettable period in history, and many things had consequently been lost beyond recovery.
Zhao Ziwu had been sent to Canada to study under an elder of Hongmen. He learned the craft without formally joining the organization, hoping to bring this lost art back to his homeland and carry it forward.
As Benjamin Cao knew, people capable of refining pills were even rarer than a Talisman Master like his teacher. Nowadays, most masters capable of refining pills were outside China. Aside from historical reasons, this was also related to environmental pollution. Although China's economic conditions were fairly good, it had damaged the environment even more. Once the environment changed, the medicinal properties changed as well. Not to mention pills—even ordinary medicinal powders and pellets no longer turned out right.
Li Bai suddenly took out a White Jade Small Bottle, naturally catching him completely off guard. The bottle alone was worth a fortune, so one could imagine the value of what was inside.
This was no roadside hot dog stand or hamburger joint that could be found anywhere.
Quite the opposite. Every kind of pill was both priceless and unavailable. Ordinary people could not afford them, could not buy them, and had never even heard of them. Even people in the know often found it difficult to obtain a single pill.
Many times, before a batch of quality pills had even been produced, demand from various channels and quarters had