How could there be two?
Xiao Yan was both startled and delighted. Normally, an alchemist could only produce a single pill from one set of ingredients.
Only in exceedingly rare circumstances, when the essence in every portion of medicinal liquid was allocated to absolute perfection, could multiple pills be produced.
But that was generally only possible for alchemists whose rank far surpassed the grade of the pill they were refining.
Yet both Frank and Otto were merely Fourth-Rank Alchemists. Even with their wealth of experience and ability to reliably produce fourth-grade pills, they should have found it difficult to produce multiple pills in a single batch.
"Could it be..."
Xiao Yan widened his eyes and began examining the two pills closely. He discovered that their pill patterns were completely different colors. Clearly, they had been refined with two entirely different flames.
Pill patterns were a sign of superior quality. Generally, only pills with a purity exceeding ninety percent had any chance of developing them.
Both pills bore pill patterns, which meant that their makers were exceptionally skilled.
Considering who in Black Rock City was capable of refining them, one of these pills must have come from Frank, and the other from Otto.
At that thought, Xiao Yan could not help laughing. "Those two old seniors really have spent their whole lives competing. Neither will concede to the other."
Clearly, the two pills he had received were another result of their rivalry.
They had only done this to see whose alchemy was better, while Xiao Yan had reaped a tremendous windfall.
After all, the market price of a single Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill started at seven or eight million gold coins. Two could even buy an Earth Tier Low Grade cultivation technique or Dou Technique.
The Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill was