He had successfully purchased a large batch of rare spirit materials.
Li Ping returned to the Treasure-Gathering Tower, where he continued refining pills while also guiding Yun Lingsu in alchemy.
Before he knew it, more than three months had passed.
He finally completed the twenty alchemy commissions queued up for this decade, his success rate still holding at one hundred percent.
After finishing the final batch of pills, he did not hurry to leave. Instead, he continued instructing Yun Lingsu, who was still refining pills.
Under his guidance, Yun Lingsu's alchemy skills improved rapidly. Once she returned and digested these insights, she might be able to attempt relatively difficult first-tier upper-grade pills like Qi Condensation Pills.
"Fellow Daoist Yan, if you have any spare time..." Shen Yu ventured.
Li Ping rejected him outright. "Fellow Daoist Shen, my alchemy skills may reach the third-tier top-grade level before long, and I need plenty of time to study alchemical principles. Twenty batches every ten years is already my limit. Any more would interfere with my own cultivation and research!"
"I spoke out of turn. Please don't take offense, Fellow Daoist Yan," Shen Yu said sheepishly. All he wanted now was to put Li Ping on a pedestal; he dared not offend him in the slightest.
Li Ping nodded and said no more.
When he first arrived in Heavenly Dao City and had yet to establish his reputation, his partnership with the Treasure-Gathering Tower had meant he needed something from them.
But now that word of Li Ping's one-hundred-percent alchemy success rate had spread, their positions had completely reversed.
If he went elsewhere, it would directly derail the Treasure-Gathering Tower's flourishing growth.
That was the value of a high-tier artisan, and the reason their status was so lofty.
Three days later.
Yun Lingsu failed