Qiu Wa tilted her head. "I don't know anything. I just saw you refining pills until you were about to go berserk, so I thought I'd interrupt you. I've eaten that bead before. It tasted great, and its power was so pure. Adding it definitely wouldn't ruin your pill. You didn't even manage to make one, so why are you still so happy? All right, all right. As long as you're back to normal, that's good enough. I can't stay with you any longer; I have lots to do. Bearded Uncle, you're a grown man. Could you stop making people worry about you all the time?"
With that, the little one yawned and slipped into the Starry Sky Ring.
Xu Yi froze, Qiu Wa's words echoing in his mind. Suddenly, he recalled how Jiang Ming had said that the Black Origin Bead must have sold for far less than it was worth. Its pure Life Source Power and Soul Power were extremely precious.
Xu Yi had never been able to appreciate just how precious it was. But the moment the Black Origin Bead had entered the Azure Fire Furnace, he had understood.
Why had he always failed at the final, crucial step of refining the Spirit Derivation Pill?
It was simply because his pill-refining technique wasn't perfect. Whenever he tried to bring all the elements together, it took him too long.
And those elements couldn't hold together for that long.
It was like a clumsy doctor operating on a patient. Because his skills were poor, the procedure took too long, and the patient couldn't endure it. So, before the operation was finished, the patient died from the strain.
The Black Origin Bead was like a miraculous life-saving medicine, keeping the patient alive and giving the clumsy doctor more time to