[Beep! Host has completed the second stage of Xiao Yi Xian's acquaintance quest—growing close.]
[Reward: Seventh-grade Sky Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast Essence Blood]
Ding Yumian (Xiao Yi Xian)'s reward for the growing-close quest was in hand, but Dongfang Chen wasn't in a hurry to use it. He was immersed in researching a pill recipe.
Inside the alchemy chamber.
Dongfang Chen looked at the medicinal materials before him and murmured.
"Phantom Cherry Fruit, Clear Spirit Saliva, Thousand Spirit Ginseng, Three-Colored Leaf Orchid Grass..."
Every one of the ingredients before him was a precious, highly potent fifth- or even sixth-grade medicinal material.
But these were just individual ingredients, not the recipe for any particular pill.
Dongfang Chen was creating a pill recipe from scratch.
Because of the limitations of Dou Qi, pills meant to help one break through, such as Po Ling Pills and Dou Ling Pills, couldn't be used by mages.
Even if they forced themselves to swallow one, they would either be unable to digest the vast Dou Qi inside it and die from the resulting explosion, or the Dou Qi would leak out of their bodies like water from a broken vessel.
So Dongfang Chen was researching a pill recipe that would let mages break through, too.
He was a bona fide Eighth-grade Alchemist Master. Researching a few pill recipes was child's play for him.
Although the different cultivation systems meant researching a recipe would take some time, that was all it would take. The differences between the two worlds and their systems wouldn't make it impossible.
"Hmm... I have a rough idea."
Inspired by the Star River Veins, Dongfang Chen had come up with a few ideas for his new pill recipe.
The Star River Veins were similar to a kind of highly concentrated elemental crystal.
The energy