Second-tier pills were no ordinary things.
Not only did they require a wide variety of ingredients, processing those ingredients was exceptionally troublesome.
Mei Hao had once watched the sect's second-tier pill refiner practice alchemy, producing a batch of second-tier lower-grade Essence-Nourishing Pills.
He remembered that refining and processing the various spirit materials alone had taken a full seven days. Even after finishing, the pill refiner had looked weak, his magical power severely depleted.
As for the pills themselves, they had taken a full ten days to emerge from the furnace, and only six had formed successfully.
In other words, the sect's second-tier pill refiner had spent more than half a month making a single batch of Essence-Nourishing Pills, with a success rate barely above half.
Yet Pill Refiner Yan had been making second-tier mid-grade Golden Crane Pills, which were far more difficult to refine than Essence-Nourishing Pills.
And he had finished in just two days, producing ten pills!
Surely they weren't all worthless pills...
Thoughts flashed through Mei Hao's mind. Still stunned, he instinctively accepted the bottle and pulled out the stopper.
A rich medicinal fragrance instantly filled his nostrils. He swept his divine sense into the bottle and immediately saw ten plump, perfectly round pills, brimming with spiritual qi, lying quietly at the bottom.
Judging by their appearance and spiritual aura, even Mei Hao, who was no pill refiner, could easily recognize that these were not worthless pills at all. They were spirit pills of exceptional quality.
Now Mei Hao was thoroughly convinced of Pill Refiner Yan's skill.
Li Ping's utterly casual movements earlier now seemed seamlessly natural and almost miraculous to him, a display of absolute confidence in his own alchemy skills.
As expected of a second-tier upper-grade pill refiner! he thought.
Just then, a calm voice sounded