To refine pills, preparations had to be made in advance. First came the selection of medicinal materials: the plants had to be full and healthy, and properly processed. Most medicinal materials had to be handled beforehand before they could enter the pill-refining process.
Then there was the cleaning of the pill furnace, as well as the pill fire and so on. It was impossible to change pill furnaces every time a different pill was refined; one furnace would be used to refine various pills. Therefore, the furnace had to be cleaned before refining began.
Cleaning a pill furnace did not mean washing it with water and scrubbing it with steel wool. That was cleaning a stove counter, not a pill furnace. Cleaning a pill furnace required restrictions to remove all the medicinal properties, residue, and other remnants left behind by the previous batch of pills. Or one could simply use a Cleansing Technique for a thorough cleanup.
Chen Mo truly did not know how pill refiners in the Martial Arts World cleaned their pill furnaces, because he had neither seen nor heard of it.
He took all the medicinal materials out of the Universe Bead and began processing them one by one. The first priority in pill refinement was handling the medicinal materials, removing any substandard portions or mixed impurities to ensure their purity. Moreover, different medicinal materials required different treatment methods.
Among the batch of medicinal materials sent by the Special Affairs Administration, some had not been handled particularly well. As a result, some of their medicinal efficacy had been lost during storage. In such cases, he could only replace them with materials from inside the Universe Bead. If no replacements were available, he had to increase the quantity to achieve the desired efficacy.
Fortunately, there were not many