"Big brother~"
Run Tu walked up to Li Ping'an, looking bashful and fidgety.
"What is it? Stop hemming and hawing. If you have something to say, say it."
"Big brother, since you're back, there's something I wanted to discuss with you."
"What is it?"
Run Tu said, "Well, our peak's pill business hasn't been doing very well lately, and some of the Alchemists on the market are hard to recruit.
So we wanted to ask you to give our peak's Alchemists some guidance."
"That's all?"
"Yes! That's all."
Run Tu fell silent for a moment before finally spilling the truth.
It was true that the peak's pill business was doing poorly.
The reason was that a competitor in the market had successfully refined an eighth-rank pill.
Their reputation had soared!
Leaving aside the value contained in an eighth-rank pill itself,
the benefits brought by its reputation alone were immeasurable.
After hearing that the other side's Alchemist could refine eighth-rank pills, their regular customers had switched allegiances one after another.
They had begun buying their competitor's pills.
After all, being able to refine an eighth-rank pill was proof of ability in itself.
Eighth rank?
Li Ping'an had never refined one himself.
Over the years, he had rarely refined pills anymore.
He only occasionally refined a few health-nourishing pills for himself and Kitten to eat.
But he happened to have nothing to do, so Li Ping'an followed Run Tu to Heaven-Reaching Peak's Alchemy Room.
Heaven-Reaching Peak's Alchemy Room was enormous, divided into the Three Offices and Four Courts.
It had many Alchemists.
At that moment, they were all waiting for this figure of legend.
Li Ping'an suddenly remembered the old Alchemy Room.
There had only been a battered Cauldron Furnace, who knew how many hands it had passed through, and an old