The news that the Pill Tower had appointed a new elder soon spread throughout Sacred Pill City.
Xiao Yu's residence as an elder was quite close to the northern side of the Pill Tower, so many of its members came to pay their respects.
They included the Eight Great Elders-Xiao Yu was the ninth-as well as deacons and others. Naturally, capable individuals living in the Inner Region also came.
Even the Five Great Families sent gifts to congratulate Xiao Yu on becoming a Pill Tower Elder.
The Five Great Families were important families within the Pill Tower. Each had a senior family member serving as a Pill Tower Elder, and together they held five elder seats. Those seats were far from ordinary.
A family's strength, prosperity, and decline were all tied to its elder seat. Once it lost that seat, it would quickly decline and be swallowed up by other families.
There was never any shortage of competition within the Pill Tower.
Yet everyone who visited Xiao Yu was stunned after meeting him.
He was too young-absurdly young.
Someone so young becoming a Pill Tower Elder was unprecedented.
After their visits, many people pulled strings to investigate Xiao Yu's background.
All they learned was that Xiao Yu was an eighth-tier alchemist, a monstrous genius whom Tian Leizi had personally assessed and recruited into the Pill Tower.
Once that news broke, it spread throughout Sacred Pill City. Everywhere, people could be seen discussing this young elder, Xiao Yu.
The news even began spreading beyond Sacred Pill City.
Xiao Yu paid little attention to it. He had anticipated this long ago, but to avoid being disturbed, he shut himself inside his residence to refine pills.
That bout of pill refinement lasted two months.
The courtyard of the Xiao Residence.
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