Xiao Yan's decision to have the Endless Fire Domain sell medicinal herbs did more than thoroughly slap the Southern Region Alliance in the face. It served another purpose: winning over the other Spiritual Pill Masters. The Southern Region was vast, more than a dozen times larger than the Dou Qi Continent, so although Spiritual Pill Masters were rare, there were still quite a considerable number of them here.
Many Spiritual Pill Masters had not pledged themselves to any other faction. They were independent cultivators who remained neutral, and although they had taken no part in this struggle, they had still been struck by an undeserved calamity. After all, many of the medicinal herbs monopolized by the Southern Region Alliance were commonly used in pill refinement. Spiritual Pill Masters had to refine pills constantly to improve their alchemy, yet the Southern Region Alliance's actions had left them unable to find the herbs they wanted for a long time.
At such a moment, the Endless Fire Domain's sale of these herbs at their original prices naturally earned considerable goodwill from those neutral cultivators. Moreover, after its pill sales over this period, quite a few people had learned that the Endless Fire Domain had a grandmaster-level Spiritual Pill Master. That reputation alone was enough to attract many Spiritual Pill Masters.
Besides, Xiao Yan was not actually looking to use this opportunity to recruit Spiritual Pill Masters. He only needed to keep these neutral fellows from siding with the Southern Region Alliance. Of course, if an opportunity to recruit talent arose, he would not let it slip by, but before recruiting anyone, he would naturally investigate their backgrounds to prevent people from other factions from slipping in to steal pill formulas.
To be absolutely certain, Xiao Yan even personally performed a soul search on