It could be said that being able to have high-grade pills to eat was already very good. High-grade pill production was already difficult, and ordinary people simply couldn't obtain so many. Top-grade ones were even rarer.

"What else? Throw them away? Too bad my Chi Chi isn't here, otherwise I could give them to it." Xiaoyao said, thinking of Chi Chi. Chi Chi was like a garbage disposal—anything could be given to it to handle.

"What's Chi Chi?"

"A little monster beast. It's sleeping recently, so I didn't bring it out." Xiaoyao replied.

"What? You feed High-Grade Essence Cultivation Pills to monster beasts? You're too wasteful." Lingling condemned Xiaoyao, seeming to say you don't know the value of rice and firewood at all.

Miss, the point isn't here—he completely doesn't take high-grade pills seriously!

Luo Lingyu shook her head and said, "Don't you think it's very wasteful for us to eat these?"

"What's wasteful about it? They're all eliminated anyway. What I'm giving you is just middle-grade. Did you think I'd give you the good ones?" Xiaoyao said.

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"Even if they're middle-grade, it's still incredible. Isn't it too wasteful for us to eat these? Wait, you mean you only kept the high-grade ones? You can refine high-grade quality high-level pills?" Luo Lingyu suddenly reacted. Pill quality had always been graded, and the higher the level of pills, the harder it was to successfully create high-grade ones. Generally having middle-grade ones was already good.

"What's difficult about that? Alright, you don't need to worry about so much. Anyway, if I give them to you to eat, you eat them. If I tell you to sell them, you sell them. I still need to recover funds. Also, continue collecting materials for me. When you're selling pills for me, you can take some profit, but it needs to be enough to buy medicinal materials." Xiaoyao said indifferently.

He could not only refine high-level pills but also top-level ones. This time he had also refined top-level pills and succeeded in all of them. However, top-level pills were for Saint Level and above people to eat. He had kept some low-grade ones for himself, and the rest were all for Guxing and the others—naturally he wouldn't take them out.

If he took those out, he didn't know what this family would become. They were already like this now—what would happen then?

"These can't be sold—they should be given to the family." Luo Lingyu said seriously.

"Can I get corresponding money by giving them to the family?" Xiaoyao asked.

"No!" Luo Lingyu shook her head. This was making a contribution to the family. It was a contribution—how could one ask for money?

"Then why give them to the family? I need money to buy materials." Xiaoyao said irritably. He had no intention of contributing to the Luo family. Even if he did, he had to maintain his own operations first.

"You just need some materials. I can give those to you. Trading these materials for high-level pills is very worthwhile!"

"I say, Big Sister, why don't you think this way—trading these pills for even more materials could get even more pills. That would be even more worthwhile." Xiaoyao said.

"..." Luo Lingyu was stunned. Thinking about it, that seemed to be the logic, and it could also increase her own achievements. However, if the family head knew about this, he would definitely say she was a spendthrift for selling the pills.

"How about this—Fourth Brother just feels he doesn't have materials to refine pills. Give these things to the family, then have the family provide materials for Fourth Brother to refine pills. Isn't that the same?" Third Master spoke up, suggesting a very compromise solution that would even save many procedures.

"I don't care, but I'll only give eliminated things. I need to keep the good ones for my own use." Xiaoyao said indifferently. This wasn't bad either. Although he couldn't make money, a family's power was still much stronger than an individual's. Collecting medicinal materials would become much simpler and would collect more and better ones.

With such a continuous supply of powerful pills helping, Xiaoyao believed that even a waste could cultivate into a peerless expert. Right now he only lacked internal power. He could continuously absorb pills every day, thus rapidly advancing his internal power cultivation progress.

"Of course that's no problem. Your so-called eliminated items are treasures in others' eyes—worth a thousand gold and hard to find." Third Master immediately said. High-level pills, even low-grade ones, had people fighting over them. The Luo family would love to convert all those medicinal materials into pills.

Now Third Master's family looked at Xiaoyao with increasingly bewildered eyes. They understood Xiaoyao less and less—he actually had such brilliant pill refining skills, able to refine even high-level pills, and could even refine high-grade ones.

Did he know how precious high-grade high-level pills were? Even those key cultivation targets of the Luo family might not have high-grade high-level pills. This could only depend on opportunity—if there was a chance to get them, they could have them; without opportunity they had to wait, and this wait might be three to five years later.

They didn't know that the proportion of high-grade pills Xiaoyao refined was very large—not just the few they imagined. If they knew this point, they could only be shocked beyond belief.

Xiaoyao had no intention of letting them know even this. It would bring him considerable trouble. These secrets could only be told to Guxing and the Young Miss, because they would guard this secret and wouldn't ask him to refine pills for them—they knew Xiaoyao would refine for them himself.

"Wait, you just said these are all eliminated ones. What about the non-eliminated ones?" Luo Lingyu looked at Xiaoyao with quite keen perception.

"Right, what about those high-grade ones? Aren't you going to give them to your cute sister?" Lingling looked at Xiaoyao, and at this moment she didn't mind acting cute again.

"Yes, I am planning to give them to my cute sister!" Xiaoyao smiled.

"Then give them to me!" Lingling extended her hand.

"Not to you!" Xiaoyao said irritably and slapped Lingling's hand.

"To me?" Zhen'er asked doubtfully. Giving them to me seems too wasteful, but if not to Lingling, then there's only me as a sister.

"Neither of you. Right now using high-grade ones would be too wasteful for you. Even using middle-grade ones is already wasteful enough. If I weren't too lazy to refine middle-level ones, you should all be using middle-level pills now, not high-level ones." Xiaoyao shook his head.

"That's also true. Right now using these is indeed very wasteful for us. Should we exchange for something else?" Luo Lingyu nodded. They all knew what Xiaoyao said. Except for Third Master who wasn't wasteful, the others were all somewhat wasteful, especially those still at King Level—that was even more wasteful.

"Forget it. As long as you have materials for me, I can make as many of these things as needed. Anyway, the material costs aren't that different either. Your brother has plenty of money! Just eat them like candy beans. This way, even if your talents aren't high, becoming experts won't be difficult." Xiaoyao shook his head.

"Eating them like candy beans—isn't that a bit too... much? Becoming experts would be good, but how many pills would that require?" Luo Lingyu frowned. After hearing Xiaoyao's words, she and the other sisters with poor talent all had their hearts skip a beat, but she quickly regained her composure and very realistically stated what reality required.

"You can eat the pills in the gourds like candy beans right now. Although they're low-grade, they're more than sufficient for you." Xiaoyao pointed at the gourds, also reminding Luo Lingyu and the others that this wasn't impossible.

"..." The Luo Lingyu sisters fell silent. They seemed to see the feasibility of this matter.

"From now on, after you finish your work, you can eat pills and cultivate. Don't be afraid of waste, but also don't be wasteful." Xiaoyao said. The words seemed somewhat contradictory, but everyone understood the meaning.

"We understand!"

"By the way, if you have anything you don't understand about cultivation, you can come find me. If the problems aren't big, I can solve them all." Xiaoyao added another sentence.

"Starting to brag again..."

"Fine, if you don't believe me, that's just your loss. I'm going back to my room to sleep first. I've been a bit tired these past few days and need a good rest!" Xiaoyao yawned. Although he could go without sleep, sleeping could bring the greatest psychological rest. Sleeping once in a while was never wrong.

"Wait, you still haven't told me which sister you're giving your high-grade pills to. Don't tell me you're giving them to Yinping?" Lingling immediately said, cutting ahead of Third Master. She seemed very concerned about this matter.

"Yes, of course!" Xiaoyao nodded.

"Go die! You won't give me high-grade ones but you're giving them to that girl Yinping? She's only barely at General Level now. Wouldn't giving them to her be even more wasteful?" Lingling threw a plate at him, her anger enough to burn down the house. But this was understandable—Xiaoyao's differential treatment would make anyone very displeased.

In Lingling's opinion, she was Xiaoyao's real sister. Not even giving high-grade ones to his real sister but giving them to a sister from another family—this made her unable to contain her anger.

Anyone would react this way. Zhen'er and the others also had opinions and looked at Xiaoyao.

"Not wasteful. She needs better ones to catch up with someone as talented as you. Her talent isn't very high, so she should use better ones." Xiaoyao said very seriously.

"Our talents aren't that great either. Why don't you give us high-grade ones?" Luo Lingyu said.

"You're not focused on cultivation. Giving you low-grade ones is already wasteful. I've already given you middle-grade ones—what more are you dissatisfied with?" Xiaoyao replied casually, not knowing this sentence would displease Luo Lingyu and the others to the extreme.

"Cough, cough. What Xiaoyao said isn't wrong either. Don't be ungrateful. Without Xiaoyao, you wouldn't even have these." Third Master spoke up, reminding everyone of something: don't forget, you should already be grateful to Xiaoyao for getting these. Don't forget—he could choose not to give them to you.

However, although the words were true, they still felt somewhat displeased in their hearts. This was also unavoidable.

(End of Chapter)