"Exactly! How could it be so easy to ask a Seventh-Grade Alchemist to refine pills under normal circumstances? Without an introduction from an acquaintance or some special connection, they wouldn't even bother with you. But this one is different—he's doing everything by the rules!"
"Come on, come on, let's hurry back and make preparations. I happen to have a Tier 7 Pill formula that I've never had the chance to get refined!"
Similar conversations played out continuously throughout the streets and alleys of Holy Pill City.
The news spread at an astonishing speed, as though it had grown wings.
In less than half a day, everyone in Holy Pill City's outer district knew about it. By evening, even some major powers in the inner district had caught wind of it.
A Seventh-Grade Alchemist was opening his furnace to refine pills, accepting commissions according to the rules, with no threshold.
For the alchemist circles of Holy Pill City, this news was undoubtedly a bombshell.
After all, in the Pill Region, Seventh-Grade Alchemists were not exceptionally rare, but they were certainly scarce.
Every Seventh-Grade Alchemist was someone the major powers competed to recruit. Usually, without sufficient favors and connections, one could not even get through their door to ask them to refine pills.
That was especially true for independent cultivators and alchemists from small factions. They might possess rare pill formulas or desperately needed medicinal ingredients, but asking a Seventh-Grade Alchemist to act was as difficult as ascending to heaven.
Yet now, a Seventh-Grade Alchemist was publicly accepting pill-refining commissions, and the conditions were so simple!
For a time, countless people were eager to make a move.
Somewhere in Holy Pill City, within an imposing residence.
After hearing his servant's report, a middle-aged man frowned slightly.
"Liu Bai? I've never heard that