The greatest difference between righteous-path pills and demonic-path pills lay not in their medicinal properties, but in their raw materials.
The former leaned toward spiritual-plant materials, while the latter leaned toward flesh-and-blood materials.
Although both types of pills could pass inspection and be sold normally under today's relatively lenient review system, people still leaned more toward buying righteous-path pills.
For the sake of the Ten Great Preparatory Classes' reputation, True Person Qiu naturally did not want Su Yuan openly selling demonic-path pills.
Su Yuan did not care about True Person Qiu's so-called principles.
He could just sell them in secret.
In any case, he was not worried about sales. Having inherited Yuan Sect's various sales channels from Nine Dragon Hall, he knew all too well which people in Taihua City were urgently in need of cheap demonic-path pills.
Far too many people in Taihua City could not afford righteous-path pills. They would actively choose demonic-path pills refined from flesh and blood—rank, foul-smelling, and disgusting.
Because when their medicinal effects were not much different, the latter cost at least one-third less than the former, so their selling price was naturally much lower as well.
Then, how was Yuan Sect different from the former Nine Dragon Hall?
Would Yuan Sect follow in the latter's footsteps and be wiped out by some dragon-slaying hero who brought people to raid it?
And if they sold medicine covertly while remaining legal and compliant, could they really compete with those demonic-path seniors who valued money over their lives?
Su Yuan had naturally made proper preparations for this from the very beginning.
Getting the demonic-path version of the Three-Turn Golden Pill approved and ensuring it could withstand inspection was the first step.
The second step was controlling the raw-material costs of demonic-path pills, thereby meeting the market's