After Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian left the Han Family, they did not immediately leave the Northern Region for Starfall Pavilion.
Xiao Yan was mainly considering something like an eighth-tier magic beast core, which was already worth an astronomical sum. Not to mention that the Sky Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast itself was one of the more powerful types among magic beasts, making its value even higher than that of an ordinary eighth-tier magic beast core.
Finding Mu Qingluan of the Heavenly Luan Clan was merely the first step of Xiao Yan's plan. After following Mu Qingluan to find the Heavenly Luan Clan, the key would be how to persuade them to trade with him. For Xiao Yan, the safest and simplest method was to trade pills!
To move the Heavenly Luan Clan, Xiao Yan decided to offer seventh-tier pills! For a magic beast clan with extraordinary status throughout the Central Plains, only pills of the seventh tier or above could possibly be used to trade with them.
Before refining seventh-tier pills, however, there was one matter Xiao Yan wanted to take care of first. He wanted to update his alchemist rank at the Pill Tower. Officially speaking, Xiao Yan could still only be considered a second-tier alchemist. Furthermore, the badge representing his identity as a second-tier alchemist had been issued by the Alchemist Association of the Jia Ma Empire. Not only was it invalid in the Central Plains, it had also been destroyed in the magma.
It was not that Xiao Yan needed any empty reputation, but in the Central Plains, once the level of a medicinal ingredient shop was high enough, many good items were only supplied to alchemists. Others could not buy them even if they had money. Xiao Yan had suffered from this several times already.