"What on earth has got you looking so miserable?" Li Junze vaulted over the wall from the neighboring estate, only to find Yun Li lying listlessly in a rocking chair, holding a manual on alchemy, while a heavy smell of burning hung thick in the air. "Ah, trying out a new pill, are we? And it failed?"
Yun Li cast a frosty glare at Li Junze. "If the Hall Master has nothing better to do, perhaps you'd better head back. I recall the Pill Hall being rather busy—have matters with the Sun Family been settled already?"
Li Junze shook his head. "The Sun Family holds far too much clout within the Pill Hall; trying to suppress them is no easy task to be accomplished overnight. If not for seizing the opportunity presented by Palace Master Mo and his son this time around, breaking their monopoly would have been utterly impossible. Still, this may well be a good beginning. Crushing them all at once would only provoke a stubborn backlash from the Sun Family, so we must take it step by step."
Chapter 284