The reason for the cheers was simple. Elder Xunwei of the Chess Dao had completed her divination: both Feign Death Pills had met the required standards.
In other words, the Alchemy Dao's newly developed products contained not the slightest hint of fraud.
It sounded unusual, but the Cultivation World truly did not lack people who falsified things. When independent cultivators deceived others, it was usually through counterfeit goods or fake cultivation techniques. But family cultivators and sect cultivators had far more tricks up their sleeves.
Generally speaking, the latter two were less likely to commit fraud. But just as university professors in the Blue Star Realm occasionally got caught falsifying academic papers, it was truly baffling: you were already a university professor, so why would you still resort to fraud?
Cultivators were the same. You were already a sect cultivator, so why would you still fake things?
Yet such cases genuinely existed. They probably had something to gain, which was why they could be so shameless.
Especially someone like Elder Bian Ji. By all rights, he had status and position and should not have needed to do this. However, he had one critical trait: he was old, and Soul Emergence was beyond his reach...
This did not mean that people like him would definitely deceive others, but the prerequisites for fraud were already in place. It was hardly an isolated phenomenon.
Many cultivators harbored such suspicions. Elder Bian Ji might have a great reputation, but after selling a batch of pills, he could simply disappear. By the time everyone realized the goods did not match the claims, they would not even be able to find him.
Do not think such behavior was unimaginable. After cultivating for long enough, one could encounter every kind of strange and bizarre thing.
Most importantly,