What?
Even ancient Taoists and the like refined pills?
But when they refined pills, they were still within the category of "mortals," and had not risen to the level of cultivators.
Were the pills Lin Fan wanted to refine made from ordinary medicinal herbs as well?
One must not forget that although the ingredients were ordinary, the effects produced after refinement were far beyond what modern times could even hope to match, let alone explain.
Take a pill that could cure every illness, for example. How was one supposed to explain such a thing?
"Speaking of traditional Chinese medicine—or rather, all the myriad things in this world, all these medicinal herbs—they really are miraculous."
Lin Fan sighed.
He had once watched an old traditional Chinese doctor explain traditional Chinese medicine.
That old doctor's view was that traditional Chinese medicine and its remedies explained everything from the perspective of "life," which was why Western medicine and modern medicine found it difficult to verify their "efficacy."
So-called biomolecular science analyzing traditional Chinese medicine was actually a "dimensionality-reduction strike"—using "low-dimensional methods" to analyze a "higher-dimensional existence." No wonder it could not explain things clearly.
Otherwise, according to the claims and research directions of certain Western doctors, traditional Chinese medicine should have no effect at all. Some even gnashed their teeth whenever traditional Chinese medicine was mentioned, claiming it was pseudoscience.
But anyone with even a little sense knew how many tangled interests lay between the lines for people like that.
After all, traditional Chinese medicine could still cure illnesses, couldn't it? Besides, it had long been classified as modern medicine as well.
For instance, whenever an epidemic struck, had traditional Chinese medicine never contributed?
It could not be explained clearly, but it still existed.
The pills Lin Fan wanted to refine were the