If cultivators had not trained in eye-enhancing techniques, buying Jade Essence Pills would be of little use. At most, their eyesight would improve slightly. After all, the pill had to be truly integrated through a cultivation art.
Thus, such minor enhancement was not worth the pill's price, and not many customers bought it without reason.
The reason this pill had such a considerable reputation was that the Jade Essence Pill formula was extraordinarily complex, making it famous for being difficult to refine. That was also why Li Yan believed they had used this pill for the assessment.
"...Because of how difficult this pill is to refine, it is quite famous among fifth-grade medicinal pills, so we listed it as an assessment target.
In the more than four hundred years before Fellow Daoist, only Dongmen Gaozhi managed to produce three pills from one furnace when he took the assessment for the position of steward!
After that, no one taking the assessment with this pill ever surpassed that number. They either failed or produced only one or two pills from a single furnace.
A hundred years after Dongmen Gaozhi passed the steward assessment, he declared that for at least five hundred years, no one would surpass him when refining this pill for the assessment. Otherwise, he would forfeit half a year's salary.
To put it bluntly, Dongmen Gaozhi liked to show off, which was why his name was rather well known among the stewards.
Yet he was both cautious and arrogant. He only made that declaration a hundred years after his assessment, after seeing that no one had been able to break through that boundary for so long. His ostentatious heart had begun stirring again.
So he made such a statement before everyone. And in order to show off without losing face,