He Pingsheng had heard of Lightning-Warding Pills.
His Golden Coffer Concordance contained a recipe for them.
The problem was that these were seventh-grade pills.
For him, producing high-grade ones outright would not be easy.
"Heh, please don't misunderstand, fellow Daoist!" Daoist Firmament smiled and said, "I'm not asking you to make every pill high grade, but there must be at least two high-grade ones!"
"That... shouldn't be a problem, should it?"
"I've asked around. Among the alchemists on this street who refine high-tier pills, you're someone of note!"
He Pingsheng nodded. "It shouldn't be much of a problem. Have you prepared all the ingredients?"
One of the ingredients in Lightning-Warding Pills, something called metal essence qi, was the main ingredient.
Because metal overcame wood, metal-attribute auras or origins also had a suppressive effect on lightning-attribute power.
The so-called Lightning-Warding Pill drew on the principle of mutual restraint among the five elements.
Swallowing one during an ordinary clash between opponents of the same realm could weaken the opponent's attack power by thirty percent.
"Yes, yes, yes!" Daoist Firmament took out five jade boxes.
He Pingsheng shook his head. "Not enough... five sets of ingredients will only get you the most ordinary middle-grade pills. If you want high-grade ones, you need ten sets!"
That was the rule.
For better quality, one had to provide more.
"Well..." Daoist Firmament said, "These ingredients are hard to come by. I've already done everything I could to gather these five sets!"
"How about this? Although there are only five sets of ingredients, I don't want a whole batch of pills either. Once the Lightning-Warding Pills are finished, I'll take only two high-grade ones. Whatever their quality, I won't ask about the rest. They'll all be yours. How does that sound?"
Daoist Firmament looked at He Pingsheng.