After the Thunder Clan's battle for succession came a major event for the Yao Clan: the Medicine Ceremony.
By comparison, the Thunder Clan's battle for succession had been lively, but it was only an appetizer. In both the number of experts it drew and its importance, it could not compare to a Medicine Ceremony that brought Ninth-grade Alchemists together.
After all, not everyone cared who would inherit the Thunder Clan, but everyone cared about the pills a Ninth-grade Alchemist could refine.
Wei Jiangyuan had also told Xiao Yan that he would not miss the Medicine Ceremony. Judging by his tone, Xiao Yan could more or less guess that he had reached the threshold of the ninth grade too.
With Old Man Shennong's help, Wei Jiangyuan had crossed the threshold into the Dou Sheng realm. His spiritual power had already been formidable, and now he possessed a Heavenly Flame ranked fifth on the Heavenly Flame Ranking. It would be no surprise if he could refine a Tier 9 Medicinal Pill.
During that same period, the Yao Clan sent someone to make contact with Xiao Yan's party.
Unlike what Xiao Yan had expected, the elder who came, Yao Wanhuo, was fairly friendly toward them and showed no hostility.
One man could not immediately mend the rift between the two sides, but at least it would not erupt just yet. Xiao Yan did not know whose doing this was, but the gesture alone showed that Origin Return Manor had reached a point where the Yao Clan could no longer afford to ignore it.
"Teacher, what kind of pill are you planning to refine this time?"
Recipes for Tier 9 Medicinal Pills were extremely precious, worth no less than the pills themselves, and exceedingly rare. After all, a pill recipe was not quite the