You returned to your own courtyard from Deng Rusong's place.
You now had five eighth-grade pill formulas in hand.
Burning the midnight oil, you carefully studied the five formulas. Their refining methods and ingredient combinations gave you considerable inspiration.
Your fifth-grade pillmaking was at minor mastery. You planned to focus on conquering the art of pill refinement in the time ahead, striving to reach major mastery in fifth-grade pillmaking and become a bona fide fifth-grade pillmaster.
You began concentrating on refining fifth-grade pills.
Nineteenth Year
As you refined fifth-grade pills, your control over true qi became increasingly precise.
While you were at it, you completed your fifth true qi condensation.
And after completing the condensation, you carried out Insightful Observation according to your own hypothesis.
This time went so smoothly that you could hardly believe it. Your Insightful Observation state had finally reached the beginner level!
You were completely certain now: the more times you condensed true qi, the more easily you could advance the proficiency of Insightful Observation.
This discovery delighted you. At the same time, you formed a guess—your Insightful Observation talent had not actually been innate.
Rather, repeated true qi condensation had allowed you to contain high-quality true qi one or two realms ahead of schedule, giving you near-perfect control over true qi in every realm.
That was what had allowed you to awaken Insightful Observation after birth.
You muttered, "So I'm actually not a genius?"
Your tone was full of surprise, as though you had only just learned this fact for the first time.
You felt dejected. So, gritting your teeth and stamping your foot, in a state of extreme fury, you raised your fifth-grade pillmaking from minor mastery to major mastery.
At thirty-four, you became the youngest fifth-grade pillmaster in Danxia Sect's history!
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