Elder Lin waved a hand lightly and said with a chuckle, "Young friend Xiao Yu is the Pill Tower's Ninth Elder, so we're already family. This little matter is hardly worth mentioning. Besides, for the Pill Tower to produce a Mystic Pill Grandmaster like you is a joyous occasion of the highest order. Even putting all our resources behind you wouldn't be excessive."
"Exactly! You've really outdone yourself, lad. From now on, I'll have something to brag about whenever I go out. I'll tell everyone I meet that I was the one who recruited Xiao Yu, the Pill Tower's Ninth Elder. That's enough to keep me boasting for the rest of my life."
Tian Leizi was chuckling too. The look he gave Xiao Yu was like a pie chart, divided between amazement, relief, and delight.
The other old men also wore kindly smiles. None of them dared show Xiao Yu the slightest disrespect just because he was young.
Hearing this, Xiao Yu smiled faintly, then reached out and beckoned toward the surrounding world. The countless medicinal granules that had fallen in the pill rain rose into the air together, gathered into one mass, and floated a hundred yards from the assembled elders.
"I have nothing else to repay you with, so please accept these leftovers from refining the Mystic Pill. I hope you won't disdain them."
His gesture left the Little Pill Tower's elders dumbfounded.
Those medicinal granules had condensed from the energy that spilled out when the Ninth-Grade Mystic Pill formed. Even the weakest contained energy comparable to a Seventh-Grade Pill.
Taken together, all these medicinal granules were worth no less than a Nine-Colored Eighth-Tier Pill, or even a Ninth-Grade Treasure Pill.
And he was simply giving them away. Whatever else one might say, a Grandmaster Alchemist capable of