On the Outrageous Rumors Sparked by "Pill Testing": An Yi's Days in Seclusion with the Female Students

But if An Yi simply gave them away, even Ruo Lin and the others would have felt embarrassed accepting such an enormous favor for nothing, no matter how thick-skinned they were.

So An Yi simply said he was unsure of the actual effects of these low-tier pills and asked them to help him "test the pills," apologizing for the trouble.

He was indeed rather curious about how much the actual effects of pills brewed by a late-blooming alchemist like himself would vary between people with different constitutions.

And testing pills was not as simple as casually swallowing one to sample its flavor.

If it was a healing pill, they were perfectly healthy, so they had to steel themselves and inflict a few superficial wounds on the spot.

If it was an antidote pill, they first had to close their eyes and swallow some mildly toxic poison...

This way, everyone could legitimately line up to help him test pills, and whatever pills they took away counted as their "pill-testing payment" for the suffering they endured.

At first, they were still rather unnerved.

But Ruo Lin simply could not resist the temptation of the pills and took the lead.

Out of her blind trust in An Yi, Xun'er followed her in testing them.

Seeing that the two were perfectly fine afterward, their faces positively glowing, Xiao Yu and the others mustered their courage and joined this "army of pill testers."

Naturally, Ruo Lin and the others were not about to publicize this somewhat "self-torturous" pill-testing process.

And so, outsiders who knew nothing of the truth watched them emerge from the pavilion every day with glowing faces and began wildly inventing explanations.

Even outrageous rumors that An Yi was exploiting his status as an alchemist to enjoy "nightly revelry" and "share one