Seeing their looks, Ling Qi cleared his throat awkwardly as he said,
"What he did aside, his skills as an alchemist are the real thing. Dealing with the poison of the tricolored white-eyed tortoise needed astronomical skills, especially considering how far it had spread to our bodies and the tortoise sacrificing its blood essence to make it more potent.
His skills were worthy of our respect as those who know how hard it was to pull off what he did.
Sharing a few alchemy recipes and a botanical report isn't considered much. We would not lose what is contained in them just because we handed them out.
We would still retain the wisdom contained within them, but gifting the two objects to him is our way of showing respect to him as juniors on the same path.
The recipes and the report would achieve so much more in his hands than it would in ours. Who knows some never-before-seen legendary alchemical discovery may come out of what we just shared.