Meeting the Three Women; Xiao Yan Gets All Tea-Soaked! Everyone Advances by Leaps and Bounds

Old Yao gazed into the distance and subconsciously clenched his fist. 💥💥 🎃💞

What a fine first disciple. Was this old man, the continent's number one Alchemist, not enough to satisfy him?

Or was it that his heart held only his wonderful cousin? Everything his cousin did was right, everything his cousin had was good?

He had to admit that Zhang Yuan's artifact refining had some real substance to it. The Mysterious Heavy Ruler's current effects were truly astonishing.

If all Artifact Refiners refined artifacts this way, they might really become a distinguished profession of their own in the future.

But that was all in the future, filled with countless uncertainties.

"Becoming an Alchemist can't satisfy you?" Old Yao asked with an amused look.

"It isn't that being an Alchemist isn't satisfying, nor is it that Alchemists aren't good. It's just that becoming an Artifact Refiner has better value for money." Xiao Yan answered with perfect logic. "Teacher, rarity makes things valuable."

"Alchemists are certainly impressive. That's universally acknowledged on the Dou Qi Continent. But no matter how impressive or rare Alchemists are, they aren't one of a kind."

"If you need someone to refine pills and can't reach an agreement with one person, you can always find someone else as long as you're willing to pay the price."

"But Artifact Refiners are different. This was created by my cousin alone. It's the only one of its kind, which means a monopoly!"

As he spoke the word "monopoly," Xiao Yan licked his lips.

He had understood in his previous life that nothing in this world was more profitable than a monopoly.

Intellectual property rights, oil, medicine—everything was like that.

Artifact Refiners might not necessarily be more prestigious than Alchemists, but they were rarer.

Once the uniqueness of the Dou Artifacts