Strictly speaking, the first alchemy book Luo Chen encountered had been a gift from Mi Shuhua.
It was called Qing Yuanzi's Alchemy Detailed Explanation.
The book recorded detailed insights into refining low-tier pills and included several basic alchemical techniques, such as Silk Washing Hand and Jade Folding Hand.
At lower cultivation levels, those techniques had made Luo Chen's life much easier.
There was also a technique called the Azure Origin Pill Nurturing Art!
When Qing Yuanzi wrote the book, he had only been at the Foundation Establishment Stage, yet he had managed to refine a Tier 3 Pill.
He had possessed no cheat like Luo Chen's Attribute Panel. The reason he could refine a pill beyond his own cultivation level was the Pill Nurturing Art.
The Azure Origin Pill Nurturing Art:
It required alchemy equipment of at least High-Grade Magic Tool quality. Supreme-grade was better, and a Magic Treasure was best!
The pill being nurtured also had to be supreme-grade!
That was not all. The process required at least ten portions of the pill's raw ingredients.
It also called for a favorable location, preferably a Spirit Vein, or at the very least a special environment beneficial to the pill.
Finally, the Pill Refiner had to temper the pill's quality constantly with Foundation Establishment True Fire.
The nurturing could take as little as half a year or as long as a century.
The process was cumbersome, and the time it demanded was enormous!
Luo Chen remembered the technique vividly, chiefly because its requirements had been impossibly harsh for Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment Cultivators!
At his current cultivation level, though, those supposedly harsh conditions were not so difficult to meet.
And when Luo Chen worked backward through the Azure Origin Pill Nurturing Art with a Fourth Order Alchemist's mastery of pill