"Please speak freely," Fang Lin said.
Lu Wenjin glanced at Fang Lin and gestured towards the pill furnaces beside them: "With Master Fang's status and reputation, I presume you would not lack top-tier pill furnaces. However, I have always been puzzled about something. For pill refiners, pill furnaces are as crucial as weapons are for martial artists. A martial artist wielding a weapon can bring out their full strength, and a pill refiner with a pill furnace can display their accomplished skills. Does that mean if the pill furnace is good enough, the pill refiner's own mastery doesn't have to be exceptional, as it can be compensated for by the quality of the pill furnace? What then is the meaning of us pill refiners spending decades tirelessly studying pill formulas and honing our pill refining skills? Particularly for those pill refiners of humble origins who cannot afford quality pills, how can they compare with those born into privilege?"
