"Brother Hong, your Hong Family and my Mo Family are both from Alchemy Families of similar stature! It's one thing that a high-quality Continuation Pill appeared at the auction, but to also see a never-before-heard Puppet Elixir, has your Ancestor made a new breakthrough in the Alchemy Dao?"
The Mo Family Master was fishing for information from the Hong Family Head, another member of the Alchemy Family.
Both families were openly and secretly competing, entirely focused on nurturing their own Pill Masters, each hoping to crush the other and become the premier Alchemy Family in the Jianyun Dynasty.
Any small movement could trigger the sensitive nerves of both families.
"Do you suspect that those two Elixirs were concocted by my Hong Family? When bidding for the Puppet Elixir earlier, my family bid up to fifty-six thousand silver taels," the Hong Family Master said, a middle-aged man with a horse-face and a notably high hairline.
