If Essence-Refining Pills were put up for sale at Jade Pill Hall, Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators would inevitably come to buy them.
If both the manager and the person in charge were only at the Qi Refining Period, they would undoubtedly be at a disadvantage from the outset, which would make bargaining extremely unfavorable.
Although Jade Pill Hall operated in a market ward within the Primordial Yang Sect, Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators had far too many ways to bring Qi Refining Period cultivators to heel.
Viewed that way, selling Essence-Refining Pills at Jade Pill Hall really would be inappropriate without a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator overseeing the shop.
Cultivating or recruiting a Foundation Establishment Realm subordinate had therefore become an urgent matter.
Otherwise, Jade Pill Hall could only maintain its current scale without expanding, and its usefulness to him would steadily diminish.
Liu Yu considered this silently. Almost four years had passed since his last return to the Sects; in another year, it would be five.
That would be a good time to return and collect Jade Pill Hall's earnings from the past five years. He could also check on Jiang Qiushui's current situation before deciding what to do. If the circumstances were suitable, he would give her the Foundation Establishment Pill.
She was three years older than him, which made her forty-eight now. She was about to pass the ideal age for foundation establishment, so he could not keep putting it off.
With his mind made up, Liu Yu went over to a Grand Tutor Chair and reclined, casually taking out Spirit Herb Insights to leaf through it.
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