"Senior Brother Song..."
"You..."
Li Qingfeng froze there as well. He opened his mouth, knowing he could not hide it.
"Heh, the methods of a Golden Core Realm True Person really are unfathomable."
Only then did Li Qingfeng explain what had happened.
As it turned out, the Pill Academy had always had Jun Mountain at its back. There was often a surplus of the spirit medicines needed for ordinary pill refining, and a considerable portion of those medicines could end up in the Alchemists' own pockets.
The Pill Academy's assignments, meanwhile, were distributed according to the number of people in each lineage and branch.
After the Dongyuan Sect cultivators arrived, the surplus available to several Alchemists naturally shrank considerably.
The people of the Pill Academy had always regarded these spirit medicines as their rightful due. With more than half suddenly gone, they naturally grew dissatisfied. Within the Pill Academy was a Foundation Establishment Realm Alchemist named Zhao Shu, a member of the Tandong Zhao Clan.
Born into a prominent clan, he had looked down on the Dongyuan Sect cultivators from the Chu Kingdom to begin with, and this only made him worse.
Thus, when distributing pills, he would often shortchange them, sometimes even giving them pills of abysmal quality.
The Dongyuan lineage's cultivators were strangers in an unfamiliar place. When they first received such treatment, they dared to be angry but not to speak, fearing they would bring disaster upon the Dongyuan Sect.
Even Li Qingfeng worried that if they made a scene, the junior brothers and sisters who came after them might lose the chance to cultivate at Jun Mountain, so he had kept giving ground.
Until five or six years ago, when the Pill Academy delayed distributing one year's pills again and again.
Yuwen Yao made discreet inquiries