The moment Zhao Ci wrote down the price for the Qi Cultivation Pill, he became the public enemy of every Alchemist outside the Xingyu Pill Association.
It didn't matter whether he could actually influence the entire Qi Cultivation Pill market; that conclusion was set in stone.
He was either a public enemy with real power or a public enemy who was a complete joke.
Either way, he was a public enemy!
Because the production cost of a Qi Cultivation Pill was more than that. For a Low-Level Elixir like the Qi Cultivation Pill, the cost of raw ingredients had already dropped significantly due to the plummeting price of Qi Nourishing Grass. After deducting maintenance fees for the Pill Furnaces, the rest was all labor costs for the Alchemists.
If the price was truly affected, the income and status of every single related Alchemist would take a hit.
The Feng, Zhu, and Yang families each had their own Divine Techniques and could still lower their costs somewhat.
