"Exactly."
Hu Jia nodded in agreement at their words. Refining pills was merely their way of earning fire energy, and wasn't earning fire energy meant to help their cultivation? They would never put the cart before the horse.
"Then let's keep looking for Alchemists later. For now, though, we'll have to ask you two to keep working hard. Thanks for the effort."
"Mm." Xiao Fan nodded. This wasn't something they could rush. Alchemists weren't easy to find, after all, and finding one perfectly capable of refining these three types of pills would be even harder. Although Pan Gate had gained some fame, it still fell a little short of being able to attract outstanding Alchemists.
Meanwhile, over a dozen students had gathered in a spacious hall. A young man who looked twenty-five or twenty-six sat at the head, his expression grim as he stared at the jade bottles on the table. A closer look revealed that they contained precisely the pills Pan Gate was selling.
"How does Pan Gate have an Alchemist?"
The young man at the head turned his gaze toward the others seated there, his voice carrying a chill.
"Leader, we... we don't know either." A young man dressed in blue stood up at the question and answered nervously, "We never heard that anyone in Pan Gate was an Alchemist."
"All three of these pills have astonishing effects, but the most important one is this Ice Purity Pill. It can actually suppress fire poison. I heard that Xiao Fan of Pan Gate helped Lin Yan treat his fire poison, but I didn't believe it at first. It seems these pills are his handiwork."
The young man seated at the head was Han Xian, leader of the Medicine Gang, the largest faction of Alchemists in the Inner Academy.