"What... what grade of pills can you refine now?" Elder Huo asked tentatively.
An Yi thought for a moment but did not answer directly. With a turn of his wrist, he took an extra-large transparent jade bottle from his Storage Ring.
The jade bottle was packed full with more than a dozen pills, each radiating a rich purple glow.
Every pill was perfectly round and smooth, without the slightest impurity. A faint purple halo even seemed to swirl across their surfaces.
"I haven't tried anything higher, so I don't know whether I could manage it."
An Yi casually tossed the large jade bottle in his hand. "But I got bored while hanging around the Black-Corner Region recently, so I refined quite a few of these."
When Elder Huo saw what was inside the bottle, his composure shattered in an instant. He even staggered violently in midflight!
"P-Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pills?!"
Elder Huo cried out involuntarily. "And... and they're all supreme quality?!"
These were peak fourth-grade pills! Supreme pills that could improve a Da Dou Shi's strength without any side effects!
Worse still, the dozen or so Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pills in that bottle were so exceptional in quality and so pure in color that they had practically reached flawless perfection!
If he searched his conscience, even an experienced Fifth-Rank Alchemist like him would have no more than a ten percent chance of refining a Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill of such perfect quality!
Ignoring Elder Huo's expression, as though he had seen a ghost, An Yi continued on his own:
"By the way, I heard Jia Nan Academy has a dedicated Alchemy Department, right? Seniors, I'd like to apply to study there and really delve into alchemical theory. Otherwise, these half-baked alchemy skills of mine just aren't reliable. I have