After returning to Sacred Pill City.
Neither of them remained idle.
Zi Yan once again busied herself gulping down pills to improve her strength, hoping to reach Tier 7 soon.
Zhou Changqing, meanwhile, threw himself back into the business of taking Pill Lightning for others.
During the four months he had spent guarding Zi Yan, he had missed plenty of opportunities to temper his body. Naturally, he had to make up for them.
Fortunately, during those four months of Zhou Changqing's absence, the master alchemists who had established ties with the Pill Lightning Pavilion had barely refined any pills.
Almost every time they had refined pills, it had been because someone came to request their services.
The pills they had intended to refine for themselves had been postponed.
It was only four months.
To these master alchemists, almost all of whom were Dou Zong, that little stretch of time hardly counted for anything. A short cultivation retreat would pass in the blink of an eye.
Thus, the impact had been minimal.
However, the powerful cultivators seeking pills had suffered for it.
Previously, whenever they sought pills, they had needed to withstand the seventh-grade Pill Lightning themselves.
But ever since the Pill Lightning Pavilion appeared, with Zhou Changqing as its "sucker," they no longer needed to shoulder the Pill Lightning themselves. That "sucker" took care of it for them.
They were more than happy with that arrangement.
Everyone came out happy.
Yet going from frugality to luxury was easy; going from luxury back to frugality was hard.
During these four months, the Pill Lightning they had been spared fell back onto their own shoulders, leaving these powerful cultivators rather disgruntled.
After all, aside from Dou Zong above five stars who could withstand Pill Lightning unscathed, those below that level would pay