"If I want to keep successfully developing Demonic Arts through Transformation, the endless Savage Wastes and larger immortal cities would be suitable destinations. But if I want to reach Foundation Establishment, an immortal city would offer better opportunities."
"Mm, I should finish the matters at hand, then speak with the Xu Family and try to bring things to a satisfactory close for now. I also need to plan and prepare carefully for where I'm going and what I'll do. I mustn't act in a fit of hotheadedness-"
Lin Changheng was steady and cautious in his dealings. Planning before acting was a key part of that.
"Right, there's also the batch of elixirs I promised to refine for the Jin Family. I need to finish them properly and deliver them on time."
Not long after their conversation, Jin Geng had conveyed Lin Changheng's thoughts to his lineage.
Jin Geng certainly lived up to his straightforward nature. He told Lin Changheng without reservation that the Jin Family elders really had intended to poach him at first. They had planned to offer generous benefits that would make any High-Grade Pill Master covetous, along with a superior-grade formation inheritance, to win him over.
But Lin Changheng had anticipated their intentions and methods, and interrupted their preparations through Jin Geng.
In the end, their meeting had turned into an arrangement for Lin Changheng to refine a batch of special superior-grade elixirs for the Jin Family. They needed them urgently, with the entire batch to be delivered within a year.
The Jin Family would pay in spirit stones at ten percent above the market price for superior-grade elixirs, while Lin Changheng would take no share of the elixirs themselves. They would also give him a mid-grade formation inheritance.
The grade of the formation inheritance had been