"A condition?"
Seeing Xiao Yan's puzzled expression, Xuan Yi and the others smiled faintly.
"The condition is that you refine an eighth-tier pill on the spot, then receive certification as an eighth-tier alchemist from the Pill Tower."
Xuan Yi looked at Xiao Yan and said, "Once you become an eighth-tier alchemist, you'll be invited to serve as an honorary elder of the Pill Tower. Would you be willing to accept this condition?"
"Refine an eighth-tier pill, get certified as an eighth-tier alchemist at the Pill Tower, and finally become an honorary elder?"
Xiao Yan could not help giving a wry smile.
The Pill Tower certainly knew how to work its abacus.
If he could become an eighth-tier alchemist at his age, he would break another record among alchemists. A nineteen-year-old eighth-tier alchemist-such talent already surpassed even the Medicine Emperor's at that age.
If word of this spread, Xiao Yan's reputation might even begin to rival Yao Lao's, while the impact and shock it caused would be greater still.
Once he had all that, joining the Pill Tower would also give its reputation an enormous boost.
Given his current potential in particular, as long as he survived the calamity of the demonic source, becoming a ninth-rank alchemist would be as certain as a nail driven into a board.
And with his powerful heavenly flames, becoming the foremost alchemist on the entire Dou Qi Continent in the future would probably not be difficult either.
In that case, exchanging the Three Thousand Burning Flame, which was of little use to the Pill Tower, for his service as an honorary elder would truly earn it a killing.
Seeing Xiao Yan's wry smile, Xuan Kongzi frowned slightly.
"What's wrong, Xiao Yan? Are you unwilling to join our Pill Tower?"
Then he could not help emphasizing,