The script had been crafted so successfully. Why, then, did reality refuse to follow its plot? For the first half-month, he had prepared the four ingredients of the Monarch, Minister, Assistant, and Envoy formula with remarkable ease. Of ten batches of spirit plants, he had ruined only two.
Those two ruined batches had been early mishaps. After that, he had gotten the hang of it and suffered no further losses. But when it came to refining pills, everything changed. The entire process was full of variables; balancing the Five Elements was only part of it.
In the end, he hadn't managed to refine a single batch from the eight portions of ingredients. The repeated pill refining consumed his Life Wheel fire and left him utterly exhausted. In a month, he had used up spirit plants worth eighty Profound Yellow Pills without producing a single batch. It dealt Xu Yi a heavy blow.
After sitting motionless in his cave dwelling for a long while and barely recovering some strength, he left and returned to Donghua Pavilion. When Huo Yansha spotted him, she was chatting with a customer. She made an excuse to send the customer away, then hurried straight over to Xu Yi.
After Xu Yi explained what he needed, Huo Yansha was overjoyed. "Fifty batches is the most I can get my hands on. What, didn't your pill refining go well last time? Don't fixate on it, but don't lose heart, either. I heard my father say that refining Profound Yellow Pills isn't just a matter of practice; it also requires Heavenly Source. For a cultivator trying it for the first time, ruining a hundred batches of spirit plants and managing to produce even one batch of pills is already quite good. It all comes down to fate. And the