Seeing his daughter so astonished, and even meaning to stop him, Valley Master Nie nodded to himself. "This girl hasn't been carried away."
Nie Qianyu said again, "Father, have you truly decided to do this? Several of those pill formulas are the treasures that safeguard Hui Chun Valley, the lifeblood of generations of predecessors. And the pills refined from those formulas are treasures that make people in the martial world drool three feet long. If Brother Ren carelessly leaks them, it could bring a calamity of annihilation upon Hui Chun Valley."
After hearing this, Valley Master Nie nodded. "Xiao Yu, what you say is quite right. Father is gratified. But you have only seen one layer, not what lies beneath."
"Please explain, Father."
"First, although these pill formulas are Hui Chun Valley's secrets, no pills have been refined from them for a thousand years. Can a pill formula that cannot produce pills still be called a pill formula?"
"Second, the pills refined from these formulas can do no more than increase inner strength and strengthen the sinews and body. Ren Xiaoyao's martial arts have reached such heights that even if he succeeds in refining them, he would merely advance another step atop a hundred-foot pole. Tell me, if he obtained such formulas or pills, would he tell anyone else?"
"Furthermore, such pills are not much of a secret among the super sects, though they have long become legends to ordinary martial sects. Even if Ren Xiaoyao leaked them, he would first have to consider his own safety. Hui Chun Valley is, by nature, a family renowned for pill refinement; possessing such formulas would be nothing strange. Besides, as long as we insist that these formulas are utter fabrications, who could use a thousand-year-old legend as evidence against us?"
"What's more,