"But this is merely an inferior method of pill refinement. Though it is worth celebrating, I cannot grow complacent and stop moving forward because of it."
After the joy faded, Lin Chen wiped the smile from his face and admonished himself inwardly.
Refining pills with the Five Elements Method merely meant extracting the required medicinal properties from spiritual herbs and condensing them into Non-toxic Qi Pills. It was still far, far from true Mahayana in the Pill Dao.
In Lin Chen's conception, the inferior Pill Dao was to use every possible method to extract the needed medicinal properties from spiritual herbs, achieving a state of flawless purity—without impurities or poison.
The middle Pill Dao, however, was no longer limited to spiritual herbs. It gathered all things in heaven and earth as materials for pill refinement. Based on the knowledge from his previous life, Lin Chen roughly divided it into five categories.
For instance, the mainstream of the current Cultivation World was the Herbal School, which used the essence of grasses and trees as medicine.
There was also the Beast Pill School, which used the inner cores, hides, fur, scales, horns, blood, flesh, and essence of myriad beasts as medicine, plundering their innate divine abilities to perfect oneself. Through this, one could comprehend the Great Divine Ability known in legend as [Fetus Transformation Easy Form], and thereby reincarnate as the most perfect race in the world—the [Celestial Humans].
Or there was the Ore Pill School, which used gold, iron, and ores as medicine to refine a Sword Pill, then tempered it day and night with true qi, until one sword light chills nineteen provinces.
There was also the Qi Pill School, which gathered the essence of heaven and earth, sun and moon, earth-magnetic primordial force, Morning Sun Purple Qi, and more,