After luring the Little Dragon Girl into joining him, Xiao Yan returned to the Outer Academy.
For the next half month, he stayed by Xiao Xun'er's side while negotiating with Jia Nan Academy.
As a top-tier academy standing on the Dou Qi Continent, Jia Nan Academy possessed reserves that could not be underestimated. Its Treasure Pavilion even housed an eighth-rank magic core.
The magic core's origins went without saying: it had been left by Jia Nan Academy's headmaster, Mang Qianchi.
Aside from that, there were also numerous rare medicinal ingredients.
Among them were treasures capable of restoring souls.
Now that Xiao Yan was both the leader of the Flame Alliance and a Guest Elder of Jia Nan Academy, he naturally had to put those positions to good use.
He immediately proposed a trade.
He could refine pills for the academy's powerful cultivators, but Jia Nan Academy would have to pay him with high-rank magic cores and various medicinal ingredients.
At first, Su Qian had little faith in Xiao Yan's alchemy, until Xiao Yan brought out Yao Lao.
As Venerable Yao, whose name had once shaken the continent, and the continent's foremost Alchemist, Yao Lao was someone even Su Qian had long heard of.
Su Qian immediately grew excited!
After all, if nothing had happened to Yao Lao, someone of Su Qian's standing could never have dreamed of asking him to refine pills.
After learning of Xiao Yan's "background," Su Qian could not help feeling fortunate that he had chosen to befriend him.
After all, Xiao Yan was Venerable Yao's disciple. Befriending him was as good as befriending Venerable Yao.
And the weight carried by the title of the continent's foremost Alchemist needed no explanation.
Once Yao Lao's identity became known, even Jia Nan Academy's two guardians, the Thousand and Hundred