Being an apothecary is a noble profession, and both the Demon Alliance and the City Lord's Mansion encourage the development of the pharmaceutical industry. Once an apothecary is officially graded, they receive a regular stipend. The grading criteria are very simple: the rank of the magic pills one is capable of refining determines the apothecary's grade. For instance, someone who can refine middle- to top-grade magic pills is a Grade Six apothecary.
Having never refined pills in the Demon Realm, nor even so much as touched a pharmacopoeia, Zhou Chuan was not even ranked as an apprentice apothecary.
"Nobody is breathing down my neck. That actually sounds pretty good!"
Chapter 1673