Until the very end, Lu Xiaotian never deliberately tried to control the pill liquid as it formed into pills. Yet two golden, perfectly rounded spirit pills lay quietly inside the furnace.
"Two mid-grade pills!" Lu Xiaotian murmured, hardly able to believe the result before his eyes. This batch, the most difficult he had ever attempted to refine, had practically formed with ease. He had barely needed to guide it at all; it was as if the medicinal liquid inside the furnace had guided him, telling him what degree of heat to use.
Unbeknownst to him, the several secondary Primordial Spirits that had been deducing cultivation techniques had stopped at some point, joining in the pill-refining process.
He raised a hand and gathered the two Soul-Rebirth Fortune Pills into his palm, inspecting them closely. After refining this batch, Lu Xiaotian felt that his alchemy had reached a new level.
He could not say exactly how far he had advanced. He just felt that pills he had once struggled to refine would now be much easier if he tried again. He could not explain what had changed; it was simply an instinctive feeling.
Aside from his progress in alchemy, Lu Xiaotian felt that both his main and secondary Primordial Spirits had changed somewhat. They had grown a little stronger, though the increase was tiny. It was their refinement that had improved noticeably.
"This is my good fortune, and the Fire Cloud Monster's too." A smile touched Lu Xiaotian's face. Two mid-grade Soul-Rebirth Fortune Pills would cause quite a stir if released into the alchemy world. And his Primordial Spirit had grown stronger without any improvement in his cultivation realm—an unexpected boon indeed.
Now that the pill refining was over, Lu Xiaotian's Primordial Spirit, having been refined to some degree, seemed to remain