In the spacious, somewhat dim stone chamber, Bai Ge stood behind an alchemy stone platform.
On the stone platform before him, a medicinal cauldron sat on one side, while the ingredients for refining the Purple Heart Obstacle Breaking Pill lay on the other. Not far away, Elder Su stood with his hands behind his back, quietly observing.
The Purple Heart Obstacle Breaking Pill was a fourth-grade pill, but not an ordinary fourth-grade pill. It was a peak fourth-grade pill.
In terms of effect, the Purple Heart Obstacle Breaking Pill was somewhat similar to the likewise fourth-grade Three-Patterned Green Spirit Pill. Both were pills capable of helping Great Dou Master experts improve their strength.
However, taking a Three-Patterned Green Spirit Pill only gave one a slight chance of raising their cultivation by one star. Although Three-Patterned Green Spirit Pills came in three types, divided according to the patterns on their surface into one-patterned, two-patterned, and three-patterned grades.
Among them, the one-patterned version had a certain chance of raising the consumer's strength by one star without side effects. The two-patterned and three-patterned versions had a chance of raising the strength of a Great Dou Master-level consumer by two or three stars for a short period, but they also had a fatal flaw.
Once the medicinal effect ended, the pill also had a certain chance of causing a backlash.
Those who suffered backlash would have their strength fall by around one to two stars.
Though it was not life-threatening, few people would gamble on the chance of permanently dropping one or two stars in exchange for a temporary increase of two or three stars.
Unless it was a life-or-death moment, and they intended to make a desperate last stand!
The Purple Heart Obstacle Breaking Pill did not have this weakness. It could also