After ten years, he appeared at the Spirit-Nurturing Pavilion for the third time.
The alluringly built Madam Sun still received Li Ping, though this time she wore a black spell robe and looked considerably more dignified than on his previous two visits.
Black had a slimming effect, making her full, rounded figure and the curves outlined by her spell robe look less exaggerated.
As Madam Sun led Li Ping into the Alchemy Room, she instructed the pavilion's low-ranking stewards to visit the addresses listed on the commissions and notify the clients to come for their pill refining.
"Master Bai, through my efforts, our pavilion secured eleven commissions for third-tier top-grade pills for you over these ten years."
At this point, Madam Sun looked at Li Ping with a smile. "You'll have a chance to show your skills shortly, Master Bai."
Only eleven commissions. Li Ping inwardly frowned.
There were far fewer Core Formation late-stage cultivators than middle-stage cultivators, so demand for third-tier top-grade pills was nowhere near as strong as for third-tier middle-grade pills.
For that reason, he had deliberately waited ten years before emerging from seclusion to handle his alchemy business.
Yet after ten years, the Spirit-Nurturing Pavilion had still only received eleven commissions.
To be honest, he was not particularly satisfied with that number.
But then he reconsidered. His cultivation was still only at the Core Formation middle stage. Once he absorbed enough third-tier middle-grade innate spirit vigor, he would encounter no bottleneck in advancing to the late stage.
As for reaching Nascent Soul, who knew how long that would take?
However slowly the alchemy went, he should have absorbed enough third-tier top-grade innate spirit vigor by then.
Refining only a few batches at a time would actually leave him more time to cultivate. For him, this was