Qu Tong scrolled through numerous comment sections and shared the sequence of events with Old Yuan to hear his opinion.
Old Yuan stroked his beard, looking inscrutable as he said, "To become a Pharmacist, one must possess spiritual power that is quite different from that of an ordinary person. I tend to believe that there might be sinister organizations looking to capture Pharmacists to conduct research on spiritual power. After all, such things happen frequently despite attempts to stop them."
It's mentioned in the basics of the Pharmaceutical Department.
Only those with a softer spiritual power can create medicines, otherwise, it would repel the machinery designed to harness spiritual power.
There isn't a clear-cut threshold for how gentle spiritual power should be, but generally speaking, among high-level Psychics, those with gentler spiritual power find it easier to awaken supportive Special Abilities.