"Of course there was. This pill had only been refined two years ago. Two years ago, while I was still at Green Ram Palace in Kanzhou, I personally watched my senior brother open the furnace and use the Daoist Threefold Samadhi True Fire Energy to refine the Snow Heart Pill."
Wen Xu nodded lightly, glancing sideways at the three solemnly seated men. After some thought, he continued,
"The Snow Heart Pill formula did not belong to our Green Ram Palace. Our palace obtained it through a trade with a wandering expert, exchanging one thing for another. Please do not misunderstand."
The Snow Heart Pill formula was peculiar, profound, and exquisitely mysterious. Not only were its raw materials precious and varied, but the medicinal principles mutually generated and restrained one another, link upon link. Missing even one herb or reducing a dose by the slightest amount would leave the pill no longer a pill, and all efforts would go down the drain.
Precisely because of this, Snow Ridge experts who had attempted to refine the Snow Heart Pill anew had emerged in endless succession over the years, yet none had succeeded.
The pill formula had been seized long ago, an act of retaliation by experts from the Central Plains. Wen Xu feared that Great Snow Ridge would mistake Green Ram Palace for one of those involved and let their relationship turn stiff, so he explained.
Once he began speaking, his interest rose as well. He no longer looked drowsy and sluggish as before, appearing much more spirited. Only his loose, languid posture remained, though it carried a hint of Daoist bearing.
"So that was it. Great Snow Ridge had also heard of Green Ram Palace. It was the leading Daoist Sect of the Northern Seven Provinces. It was said that its