Ye Haicheng's arrival did not interrupt anything in the great hall. The hall masters had intended to stop, but he waved them on.
They continued their reports.
The one speaking now was Ye Qingyan, deputy master of the Alchemy Hall.
Ever since something had happened to Ye Jingteng, the Ye Family had recalled Ye Qingyan and sent a Foundation Establishment cultivator to continue running their business at Taichang Market.
Ye Qingyan had returned to the Desert Sea, where he focused more closely on improving the Ye Family's Advancement Pill formulas.
Ye Jingcheng refined most of the Advancement Pills for the Ye Family's high-tier demonic beasts, but Ye Qingyan had long since been leading others in refining those for first- and second-tier beasts.
He had even begun improving and refining some third-tier Advancement Pill formulas.
Had Ye Jingcheng not held the title of Alchemy Hall master, that position would have belonged to Ye Qingyan.
This report concerned which spirit pills the Ye Family planned to use to make their name known in the Central Region.
Of the four cultivation arts, the Ye Family was naturally strongest in alchemy. Ye Jingcheng alone could serve as a master alchemist.
Artifact refining and arrays came next.
Spirit Talismans were their weakest area.
They had now gained some proficiency with puppets as well.
In reality, however, products of the four cultivation arts only circulated widely up to the third tier. After all, Golden Core cultivators were a minority wherever one went.
Treasures of the fourth tier and above depended on more than a cultivator's craftsmanship; they also required precious spirit materials.
Even fourth-tier Spirit Talismans required fourth-tier blood essence, a fourth-tier talisman brush, and the hide of a fourth-tier demonic beast.
Nor could just any demon king's hide be used. It needed a high affinity