Chapter 648 618: Hard Work Can Make Up for a Lack of Talent, This Is Just an Attempt

"When you're refining the Lantian Jade Refining Pill, you can try..."

After listening to Han Bingyu explain the reasons for her refining failure, Yang Chan offered some advice.

Han Bingyu's talent as a Pharmacist was far inferior to Princess Lan Yue's, but Yang Chan was still willing to give her some pointers.

Whether it was because she was his Pharmacist's Assistant or because she helped him with various trivial matters, she was worth the effort.

Yang Chan would offer a bit of guidance to his other Pharmacist's Assistants as well, so it went without saying he would do the same for Han Bingyu.

Besides, over the past year, whenever a Pharmacist had asked him about problems with elixir refining, Yang Chan never held back. He always taught them enthusiastically, which was also part of his preparations for leaving the Cyan Yuan Sect.

After he left the Cyan Yuan Sect, he needed to at least leave behind a Pharmacist capable of refining the Three Revolutions Nourishing Viscera Pill to take his place. This was also a request from Gu An.

Otherwise, once he was gone, no one in the Cyan Yuan Sect would be able to refine the elixirs needed by experts at the Inner Refining of the Lungs and Spleens Master Level, which would be a very bad situation.

Although they could acquire them through the Merak Sacred Land's channels, it was still better for the Cyan Yuan Sect to have its own refining methods. Otherwise, they would just be at the mercy of others.

Gu An was well aware of this. It was the same reason he hadn't agreed when Liu Xuan had previously come from the Merak Sacred Land wanting to take Yang Chan with him.

Joining the Merak Sacred Land was a good thing, but they couldn't just throw all their people into it. After all, the Cyan Yuan Sect was their foundation. Only by ensuring the Cyan Yuan Sect had its own capabilities and wasn't entirely dependent on others could they achieve better development.

Over the past year, the situation in the Merak Sacred Land had changed. After recovering from her injuries, the Merak Saintess made several moves and suppressed the Merak Saint Son's arrogance. It was no longer a situation where joining would mean being targeted. Therefore, Gu An was also preparing to take Yang Chan and the others to join the Merak Sacred Land.

His only request for Yang Chan was to train a Pharmacist capable of refining the Three Revolutions Nourishing Viscera Pill. This would leave some hope for the Cyan Yuan Sect, and he would also add this requirement to the sect's rules.

The next Pharmacist capable of refining elixirs for Inner Masters must first train a suitable replacement before they can join the Merak Sacred Land. Gu An planned to add this rule as soon as Yang Chan finished training his successor.

This rule was now already part of the Cyan Yuan Sect's regulations. The person Yang Chan had chosen was an Intermediate Pharmacist who had previously failed repeatedly at refining the Three Revolutions Nourishing Viscera Pill, so Yang Chan had to train him diligently.

If talent was lacking, quantity would have to make up for it. In the end, by consuming the Cyan Yuan Sect's Spiritual Materials from the Purple Void Secret Realm, he finally managed to train someone capable of refining the Three Revolutions Nourishing Viscera Pill. This person would be his replacement after he left—the next Chief Pharmacist of the Cyan Yuan Sect.

Although the process was troublesome, Yang Chan ultimately succeeded. At the very least, the Intermediate Pharmacist could now refine ordinary Three Revolutions Nourishing Viscera Pills. Recently, Yang Chan had even been delegating some of the Cyan Yuan Sect's alchemy requests to this Pharmacist, under the pretext of training him.

Gu An also felt that the new Pharmacist needed more practice to become familiar with the process, so he was happy to see it happen. Although the Pill Formation Success Rate had dropped significantly, the Cyan Yuan Sect still needed this replacement.

Meanwhile, Gu An had been in constant contact with the Merak Sacred Land. He had received some news and told Yang Chan to wait patiently. When the time was right, they would join.

With such a long buffer period, Gu An had naturally made his own arrangements. He already had the next Sect Leader in mind.

Unlike him, the next Sect Leader would hold the position for a long time—at least twenty or thirty years to start. They wouldn't be heading to the Merak Sacred Land anytime soon and might even remain the Sect Leader of the Cyan Yuan Sect for their entire life.

His own situation was different. He had a prior agreement with Gu An that his time in the Cyan Yuan Sect would not exceed three years.

A year ago, if the situation in the Merak Sacred Land hadn't changed so drastically, making it an inopportune time to join, he would have begun preparations to enter the Sacred Land right after the Merak Saintess and her group returned.

Now that the time was nearly right, he naturally began to consider it again.

Gu An was well aware of the changes in the cultivation of Lü Zhenghai and the others. After joining the Merak Sacred Land, they had all broken through the bottleneck between the Inner Refining of the Six Viscera and the Inner Refining of the Five Viscera. Their cultivation progressed much more quickly, which was a testament to the Merak Sacred Land's methods. That rate of progress was far faster than what was possible in the Cyan Yuan Sect.

And those methods were only available within the Merak Sacred Land.

Previously, Gu An could only watch from the sidelines, as the Cyan Yuan Sect's situation wasn't ideal. However, with the sect's development during this period—especially after he allocated some Cultivation Resources to the Servant Disciples—the ranks of Official Disciples had been greatly replenished, and their numbers had increased significantly.

Although most of them didn't have high potential, the increase in numbers served as a stopgap for the Cyan Yuan Sect. In another ten or so years, the ranks of Elite Disciples would also recover. In thirty or forty years, the Cyan Yuan Sect would return to its peak. However, that would be a matter for the next Sect Leader.

Furthermore, becoming one of the Merak Sacred Land's Affiliated Forces would grant them access to some of its Cultivation Resources, which could accelerate this process. Perhaps it would take even less time. For this reason, the successor he chose for Sect Leader was someone with a personality suited for steady development.