Back in the stone house, Luo Chen looked at the golden pill pinched between his thumb and forefinger.
A tiny yet distinct cloud pattern circled the pill once.
Luo Chen's earliest understanding of pills had come from his predecessor's immortal opportunity—the inheritance left behind by an old cultivator.
Strictly speaking, that old cultivator who had died in a mountain cave could not be considered a disciple of a major sect.
He had been a rogue cultivator from the Medicine King Domain and, thanks to his passable Pill Refinement Art, had barely been admitted into the Outer Sect of the Medicine King Sect.
His circumstances had been rather similar to Fu Xiu Xiu's.
The only difference was that he had failed to achieve Foundation Establishment and had not obtained the Medicine King Sect's Foundation Establishment Chapter of the Ageless Evergreen Scripture, the Yi Wood Medicine King Scripture.
As he grew older, he had fallen into the role of an Outer Disciple of the Medicine King Sect, handling various odds and ends for the sect.
In the end, he had died in a large mountain cave within Yuanzhao Kingdom.
He had possessed considerable insight into pill refining, so aside from the Qi Refining Chapter of the Evergreen Art, he had also left the original owner two Pill Recipes: Grain Avoidance Powder and All Wonders Pill.
As for why a proper Outer Disciple of the Medicine King Sect had possessed such a strange Aphrodisiac Pill recipe, that was beyond Luo Chen's knowledge.
Later, after Luo Chen transmigrated and began selling pills at the Rogue Cultivator Market, he gradually learned more common knowledge about pills through the occasional chats with rogue cultivators.
Well, those people could not refine pills, but they were always picking and choosing whenever they bought something.
After enough back-and-forth, he