At Ximen Gong's question, Master Chen shook his head. "Patriarch, you overestimate me. I'm only a First-Grade Alchemist, so I can only refine First-Grade Elixirs. How could I possibly refine a Second-Grade Elixir?"
"Besides, to heal the Young Master, the Golden Healing Pill must be at least Gold Quality."
As a First-Grade Alchemist, Master Chen only ever refined First-Grade Elixirs for the Ximen Family.
Even that was considered a remarkable feat.
Alchemists were bound by a strict hierarchy of ranks. A First-Grade Alchemist could refine pills until the day they died and still never produce a Second-Grade Elixir.
This was a rule, an unbreakable one at that.
It was an ironclad rule that Second-Grade Elixirs could only be refined by a Second-Grade Alchemist or higher.
Faced with this, Master Chen could only look on helplessly.
Ximen Gong sucked in a sharp breath.
"It has to be Gold Quality?"
"This..."
