When Luo Chen arrived at Radiant Moon Hall, Mi Shuhua greeted him with a genuine, heartfelt smile.0

But when Luo Chen departed, that same smile had grown somewhat stiff and forced.0

After Luo Chen and Sikong Shoujia left, Mi Junping remained behind with her father. She voiced the concern that had been weighing on her mind.0

"Father, does building an alchemy room really require such a large investment?"2

As the Merit Hall Leader responsible for personnel management and the gang's finances, Mi Junping had a sharp eye for costs. From her rough calculations of Luo Chen's requests, the estimated expenditure had already exceeded a thousand spirit stones—and that was just for the alchemy room's construction.0

That sum didn't account for the valuable Drain Cloud Cauldron worth nine hundred spirit stones and the Purple Cloud Copper Furnace valued at four hundred spirit stones, both provided by their Mi family. Once the room was completed, supplying the raw materials for alchemy would demand a continuous stream of resources.1

Even though Mi Junping handled spirit stones in the thousands...0