Cloud-Viewing Mansion, alchemy room.
Zhao Lingyin sat cross-legged before the pill furnace, continuously sending seal incantations into it as she began the final stage of nurturing and shaping the pills.
Buzz!
Half an incense stick later, the pill furnace gave a slight tremble, and the furnace flames swiftly withdrew.
As the lid opened, waves of medicinal fragrance spread through the room. Seven pills, lustrous as mutton-fat jade, flew out and landed in Zhao Lingyin's hand.
"Five of perfect quality and two of superb quality. Ling Yin's attainments in the Alchemy Dao have deepened again!" Shen Mo swept his divine sense over the pills and praised her with a smile before adding, "These Dao-Enlightenment Pills should be able to suppress your cultivation. Try taking one first and see whether it works."
Given the Dao-Enlightenment Pill's unusual method of use, Shen Mo had not passed its formula on to anyone besides Zhao Lingyin. Even alchemists under the Hall of Hundred Arts, such as Wu Gong, did not know how to refine it.
Shen Mo had personally refined quite a few Dao-Enlightenment Pills as well, handing them over to the Evil-Punishing Hall and the Law Enforcement Hall for distribution. They helped "low-level cultivators" like Liu Yuan, who possessed outstanding talent in the hundred arts of cultivation, raise their cultivation levels, lest poor cultivation aptitude prevent them from advancing to higher Dao realms and leave them to grow old and die alive!
However, Dao-Enlightenment Pills were in desperately short supply within the Crimson Flame Sect. Whenever a batch was refined and delivered to the Evil-Punishing Hall and Law Enforcement Hall, they would immediately feed them to imprisoned wicked cultivators and criminal cultivators, using them to nurture the pills. Thus, the sect's stores held no spare Dao-Enlightenment Pills for Zhao Lingyin to take.
So Shen