The Mystic Staff's Might: Once Released, It Weighed Like Vast Seas and Towering Mountains

The Alchemist Trade Fair.

This was the Pill Tower's largest officially sanctioned trading venue. Everything from eighth-tier pills and high-grade medicinal materials to rare, precious furnaces and even flame seeds could be bought here.

The moment Xiao Yan stepped inside, a refreshing fragrance greeted him.

He looked up to see wisps of pill fragrance drifting from dragon-headed incense burners. Yet what burned inside them was clearly incense, not pills being refined...

"This is pill incense. Ordinary pill incense is made by collecting the ash left over from refining high-grade pills and processing it with special methods. But the pill incense here... is refined from pills themselves," Cao Ying explained with a soft laugh.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk."

Even Xiao Yan was left somewhat wide-eyed by that explanation, marveling at the Pill Tower's extravagant wealth.

This pill incense did indeed have a calming, cleansing effect. Inhaling enough of it could even faintly improve one's cultivation.

And they simply displayed it out in the open like this, without worrying about thieves setting their sights on it...

"Hehehe, if you like it, Brother Xiao Yan, you can take some. I do have a little say around here." Cao Ying covered her lips with a light laugh, looking lively and adorable. The cold, aloof goddess others usually saw was now as spirited and lively as a little deer.

"Is that... Cao Ying, the Cao Family Witch?!!"

Cao Ying paid no attention to those around her, but her outstanding beauty and resounding reputation meant quite a few disciples of Sacred Pill City's Five Great Clans recognized her, their faces filled with astonishment. "Why is she here? And accompanying some unfamiliar man? Could that black-clad man be a rising talent from the Cao Family?"

"I've visited the Cao Family. I've never seen anyone like him. I'm afraid