The Divine Spirit Pill was a miraculous elixir that seized the creations of heaven and earth. Aside from the main ingredient, Hellflower, most of its fifteen auxiliary medicinal ingredients were also rare treasures. Among them, the century-old Spirit Ginseng was actually the easiest to obtain.
But with his status and strength, Xiang Yang had no need to exhaust himself gathering them like an ordinary martial artist. With a single command, the colossal force of the Divine Constable Gate swung into action and swiftly collected most of them from its treasury.
The Fifth Family suitably supplied the remaining few ingredients, and the alchemical refining began.
Xiang Yang had some superficial understanding of the alchemical arts of this world—or rather, pill refining. They were divided into the Inner Elixir Method and the Outer Elixir Method.
Those who had mastered the Inner Elixir Method practiced martial arts such as the Ghost Doctor lineage of the demonic sects. They refined the strange poisons of the world, circulated them through their meridians and dantian, and transformed them into a poison pill to enhance their cultivation. Using the human body as an alchemical furnace, it was truly a martial art of the pill dao that sought great achievement.
The Outer Elixir Method relied on experience and various secret techniques to refine medicinal pills, multiplying the medicinal potency inherent in the ingredients while softening and neutralizing any toxins that might remain within them. It was the path of attaining the Dao through external means.
Neither could be called superior or inferior, but generally speaking, the Inner Elixir Method placed greater emphasis on one's own cultivation, while the Outer Elixir Method could only serve as an aid along the martial path. That was the common view among martial artists of the age.
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