"This junior does know a Nascent Soul Stage alchemist whose attainments in the Dao of alchemy far surpass my own. Among the alchemists of Muyun Prefecture, his pill success rate can be called second to none. If we can persuade him to help, refining this pill should be no difficult matter."
Su Shi'er abruptly changed the subject, speaking with a mysterious expression.
Though he was clearly speaking of his own true body, his face remained utterly unchanged, as if he were talking about someone else.
"A Nascent Soul Stage alchemist? His attainments in alchemy surpass yours by far? His pill success rate is second to none?"
"Lu does not doubt the alchemical attainments of the Nascent Soul senior you speak of. But for a Nascent Soul Stage alchemist... asking such a person to help refine pills would likely be..."
Lu Xiaosheng's eyelids twitched wildly, his heart stirred beyond measure. With only enough materials for one furnace of Medicinal Pills, he had no thoughts at all about the pills' grade.
A high pill success rate was the paramount concern.
Yet when the words reached his lips, he simply could not continue.
With his Golden Core stage cultivation, persuading a Nascent Soul Stage alchemist to help refine pills was already no easy task. Not to mention an alchemist whose pill success rate was second to none—such a thing was practically as difficult as ascending to heaven.
And he... did not believe he could offer any reward that would satisfy such a senior cultivator.
At that thought, he lowered his head slightly, and his spirits sank at once.
"Senior Lu is worried about compensation? If so, there is no need," Su Shi'er said with a calm smile.
"Oh? How so?"
Upon hearing this, Lu Xiaosheng's low spirits immediately lifted somewhat. His faintly puzzled