After confirming that there was nothing wrong with the Nascent Soul Pill, Chen Lin was overwhelmed with delight.
After Ji Wuming had flatly refused him, he had already abandoned any hope of pursuing the Ji Family connection. After all, the Ji Family was powerful enough to contend with Xuanyin True Lord; he had no way to force their hand.
Yet the winding mountain path had opened onto a new vista. The pill formula he had obtained from the little boy while clinging to a thread of hope had actually turned out to be genuine!
I wonder who that child is in the Ji Family, to carry such a precious pill formula around with him. Had I known, I would have tempted him a little more and looked through that entire book. What it contained probably wasn't ordinary material.
Chen Lin pondered this as he walked along the immortal city's streets.
Of course, he was only entertaining the thought. Had he actually done that, the Ji Family would probably have come knocking immediately.
Now that he knew the pill was sound, Chen Lin gathered another batch of ingredients, refined them into pills, and began taking them.
The pill's medicinal properties were mild and slow-acting. First, its potency had to dissolve into his flesh and blood, then undergo some indescribable transformation, producing a miraculous energy capable of connecting with heaven and earth. This recreated something akin to the state in which a soul first formed, allowing his soul origin essence to regenerate.
The entire process was profoundly mysterious. Not only did it restore his origin essence, it also greatly deepened Chen Lin's understanding of the soul.
He even gained new insights into using the Soul-Destroying Finger, which thrilled him.
His only regret was that the Nascent Soul Pill was less effective than