Just as Qi Hanyua was planning how to make a break for it, Su Yuan hurriedly explained:
"Qi, don't misunderstand. Although our sect doesn't have any Pill Recipes, we do have pill samples and rough proportions of the ingredients."
"What I mean is, as the Pill Hall's Hall Master, could you use this information to work backward and reconstruct the Pill Recipe?"
"If you can do that, we can put your name on the patent."
"Once our medicine takes off, you'll be raking in patent fees."
Hearing Su Yuan's request, Qi Hanyua fell silent for a moment, then shook her head.
"I can't do it."
"Sect Leader, maybe it's because you don't understand alchemy, but reverse-engineering a Pill Recipe isn't something a high school student like me can do. You should find someone else."
Chen Nuoyi and Wu Ziying, who were standing nearby, didn't look surprised.
That was the normal outcome. Although neither of them understood alchemy, they could still guess how difficult it would be to reverse-engineer a Pill Recipe.
Expecting such an utterly ordinary country girl to work backward and reconstruct a Pill Recipe was truly wishful thinking on Su Yuan's part.
So why had Su Yuan made such an seemingly impossible request?
Naturally, it was because he had his eye on Qi Hanyua's two top-tier talents: "Acquired Pill Saint" and "Wuji."
He was certain that as long as Qi Hanyua was willing to work hard, she could reproduce the Pill Recipes for the Nine-Revolution Golden Pill, the Six-Revolution Golden Pill, and the Three-Revolution Golden Pill.
Just think how much money that would save on developing Pill Recipes!
What's more, if he gave Qi Hanyua a share of the patent, there was a very good chance he could tie the girl firmly to Yuan Sect's ship.
Unfortunately, her