Xiao Yuansi tapped the alchemy furnace in front of him and the final batch of Snake Essence Pills flew out instantly, glowing brightly as they circled in the air, before each landed neatly in the jade bottle in his hand.1

"Alright… from these seven Snake Dragon Fruit, we've managed to produce forty-five pills. According to the usual rules we've established, I'll take nine, and the remaining thirty-six are for your family," Xiao Yuansi suggested.0

Li Tongya shook his head repeatedly upon hearing this, having grown far beyond the young man he once was when he first stepped onto the path of immortality by the lake.0

After three or four decades of cultivation by the lake, he was well aware of the usual shares in alchemy and insisted, "Senior! You're being far too generous to my family… In the realm of alchemy, if one provides their own materials and the success rate exceeds fifty percent, the remainder belongs entirely to the alchemist. There's no precedent for taking only after achieving a seventy percent...1