Sitting-Hidden Peak.
In a Pill Room wreathed in smoke and flame.
Chu Yan stared at the pills slowly emerging from the furnace, her little face flushed and her eyes bright with delight.
"So that was it!"
"I was only a step away! One mistaken thought sent me down the wrong path back then. Who would have imagined the medicinal theory could be completed this way?"
"Crushed Star Sand! A cultivator's Divine Sense is as countless as the sands of the Ganges, making it difficult to condense, especially during an Epiphany, when thoughts scatter in every direction. Crushed Star Sand breaks apart like grains of sand yet gathers together on its own. That can help focus Divine Sense into a single point. Then, with Bodhi Wood to spark enlightenment, the final revelation comes in an instant!"
"Luo Chen, you're so clever! How did you think of that?"
Watching her delight—so exuberant it was almost adorable—Luo Chen felt momentarily dazed.
They had all cultivated for over a thousand years.
He rarely saw anyone among his peers act this way.
It was as though Chu Yan still held a child's wholehearted passion for the Alchemy Dao, unchanged from the beginning.
Ahem.
Luo Chen coughed lightly, dispersed the smoke with a wave, and gave all the Clarified Butter Pills to Chu Yan.
"I wouldn't call it clever. I stood on your shoulders and Mister Xuan Yan's, then ran experiment after experiment, learning from each failure until I found the right substitute materials."
He was telling the truth.
The Attribute Panel had helped him confirm whether the Pill Recipe was complete at that final step, but the theoretical groundwork and the many experiments that followed had mattered most.
Chu Yan took the Clarified Butter Pills and examined them carefully. Her gaze drifted now and then