"Wrong, wrong, this is wrong too!"
On the second floor of the Pill Hall.
Rare spirit medicines lay scattered about Alchemy Chamber One.
Xu Zhen's eyes were filled with frustration. Half a month of painstaking study had yielded not an inch of progress, leaving him restless and irritable, the veins on his temples bulging all the more.
After a long while.
He let out a long breath, and his expression returned to calm.
"Forget it. Completing this pill formula is as difficult as ascending to heaven, with scarcely a glimmer of hope. Continuing would only be futile."
Xu Zhen decided to give up then and there.
He then went up to the third floor to see Yun Zhongzi.
"You wish to give up?" Neither pleasure nor anger showed on Yun Zhongzi's face.
"If it were a first-tier pill formula, I would be confident of completing it. But a second-tier formula is far too difficult with my current attainments in alchemy."
"Completing an incomplete formula also deepens one's own understanding of the Pill Dao. But since you have decided, Fellow Daoist Xu Zhen, I will not force you. Just make sure you do not regret it."
"I am naturally grateful that you gave me this opportunity, Chief. I shall trouble you no further."
"Mm. You may go."
Xu Zhen left. Watching his retreating figure, Yun Zhongzi sighed softly.
Xu Zhen was talented and young, and his attainments in the Pill Dao surpassed even True Person Yunding's. Unfortunately, he lacked perseverance and the spirit to blaze new trails. His achievements would ultimately be limited.
In earlier years, Yun Zhongzi had placed his hopes in him, intending to groom him as the Pill Hall Chief Disciple of the future.
But after Xu Zhen began trading with the various aristocratic clans, caring only about