Yan Lai glanced at Yu Xian and said, "The material cost for Heretical Golden Core is quite high, yet the refining difficulty is somewhat lower than ordinary Tier 3 pill recipes. Even quasi-Tier 3 alchemists can handle it. With the price being a bit high, naturally people would rather beg alchemists for help with refining than come to our Chamber of Commerce to buy the finished product. Plus, this pill is essentially a tasteless chicken rib—disciples who are capable of Core Formation don't need it, and cultivators who can't achieve Core Formation don't have the spirit stones for it. Even if we jack up the price, few people would buy it. Frankly, I have always been very curious as to why President Bai spent a fortune just to help a group of old cultivators with no future break through to the Pseudo-Core Realm."
Yu Xian said with a stern face, "When the Beast Tide strikes, how many cultivators and commoners are displaced? Helping those old cultivators is my way of contributing my part in these troubled times. Indebted to my kindness, they will join Prefect Chu's Exorcism Army. I believe it won't be long before Wangshu Prefecture becomes the very first commandery to clear out the demonic calamity."
Yan Lai did not believe this was the only reason, let alone the fact that when that Miss Zhao had bought monster cores from him, the Beast Tide hadn't even arrived yet. However, it was not his place to pry into a customer's privacy, and mentioning it just now had already broken the r…
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