Chapter 1525 — Wei Zhao's Persistence
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"The Ice Heart Jade Bone Pill, even as a third-rank pill, requires at least a fifth-rank pill refiner to produce. Even if he found a third-rank refiner, what use would that be?" The Ice Palace Master shook her head. "In the mortal world, are there any pill refiners left? Even among our ancient sects, pill refiners are exceedingly rare, and all the high-ranking ones are gathered in Xuandan Sect. Do you think he has the power to persuade Xuandan Sect to send out a fifth-rank pill refiner to refine pills for our Ice Palace?"
At the mention of Xuandan Sect, a flicker of disgust crossed the Ice Palace Master's eyes.
"That..." Xiao Qing was speechless for a moment. Indeed, all the high-ranking pill refiners were gathered in Xuandan Sect, and the Ice Palace's only pill refiner was merely a second-rank Yellow Rank pill refiner.
And even that was already remarkable. Other ancient sects still had first-rank pill refiners, or even none at all, only ordinary apothecaries.
"Has Xuandan Sect still not replied? Ten billion — is that not enough to make them stir themselves to refine pills for us?" Speaking of pill refining, the Ice Palace Master recalled the negotiations she had earlier sent Aunt Qing to conduct with Xuandan Sect.
"The young master of Xuandan Sect said that unless you, Palace Master, agree to marry him as a concubine, so that the Ice Palace and Xuandan Sect become in-laws, then whatever pill you want can be refined — even a fourth-rank pill, and he would trouble his grandfather to refine it himself. But apart from that, there is nothing to discuss. Xuandan Sect does not lack money!" Xiao Qing said with a sigh.
"Shameless!" The Ice Palace Master gave a cold snort. "What a fool's dream. A man who can do nothing but refine pills, with no strength to speak of — I could crush him to death with one finger!"
The Ice Palace Master seldom lost her temper, but hearing the young master of Xuandan Sect's reply, she was truly beside herself with anger.
"No strength?" Xiao Qing could not help but smile bitterly. "But his sect is the mightiest of all the ancient sects! It is true that the core members of Xuandan Sect, the sect master, the young master, several elders, even the sect's patriarch, all cultivate pill-refining auxiliary arts, and even at the Heaven Rank they have little fighting strength. But the Heaven Rank experts who sell their lives for Xuandan Sect are far too many!"
Xiao Qing was right. In Xuandan Sect, the sect master, the young master, several elders, and even the sect's patriarch all cultivated auxiliary pill-refining arts — which was exactly why they had achieved so much on the path of pill refining.
But to Xuandan Sect, this was no defect at all. So long as they could refine pills, countless people and factions would flock to them, flatter them, and pledge themselves to them at any cost; their prestige was beyond imagining.