Ever since word got out that the Female Patriarch of the Ling Family of Changqing Continent was a Third Rank Alchemist, the higher-ups in many of the surrounding powers had started getting ideas.
For the vast majority of low and mid-level Cultivators, any type of Third Grade Elixir was incredibly valuable. Not only was the supply in the Marketplace scarce, but the variety was also quite limited.
The major powers capable of maintaining a long-term supply kept an extremely tight grip on resources of this level and would never allow them to appear in large quantities in the Marketplaces.
When a Cultivator at the Core Formation Level wished to continue their Cultivation, their immense demand for resources was on a completely different plane from that of a Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator.
