Despite Qing Xuan Daoist's air of wealth and generosity, as though he could afford to give Ye Han anything, he was actually worried that Ye Han would open his lion's maw and demand an exorbitant price...
After all, the reason he had never asked the Wuxie Sect's pill alchemist in Great Feng to refine his Sevenfold Pill was that the alchemist demanded far too much.
In terms of value, the payment for the pill alchemist alone could have bought a Sevenfold Pill.
But pills like the Sevenfold Pill were exceedingly rare. Whenever one appeared, Nascent Soul Realm cultivators would use every means at their disposal to snatch it up...
Qing Xuan Daoist had attended auctions where this pill was offered, but the final prices were always utterly beyond his means. His purse was simply too lean; he could not produce treasures worth that much...
He had no idea whether Ye Han would also open his lion's maw.
Watching Qing Xuan Daoist's expression, Ye Han picked up on a few clues and realized that he was probably afraid the price would be too high for him to afford.
This actually improved Ye Han's impression of Qing Xuan Daoist considerably. For someone who wielded so much power and ranked among the sect's strongest cultivators, it would have been all too easy to line his own pockets with the sect's resources and improve his cultivation.
Yet Qing Xuan Daoist still had not had the Sevenfold Pill refined. Clearly, he had not disregarded his disciples' cultivation and taken those resources to pay a pill alchemist to refine it...
In many sects, some high-level cultivators would sacrifice their disciples' cultivation resources and make the sect pay the price to advance their own cultivation. After all, cultivators pursued immortality; attaining the Dao through cultivation was what