158 Li Moyun and Bai Rouyun

Alchemists were usually not concerned about cultivating their inner strength. Most of them were obsessed with improving their ability to refine pills, and to get their pills to be free of as many impurities as possible.

Due to this obsession, they did not cultivate their inner energies often, and thus they were actually rather weak. They only cultivated for the sake of gaining an expanded life expectancy; even their cultivation base was unsteady, and they were not used to fighting.

The reason that alchemists were revered was due to their ability to assist the true geniuses. Pills would always be needed, and those who devoted their lives to concocting them would produce better results.

Since they were useful to the geniuses, they would also be protected. Since they had benefited from their pills, they would also return the favor.