Alchemy Greatly Advances! Zhiyan Breaks Through!

A pang of heartache rose in Li Bufan's chest. He hurriedly took out a medicinal pill from his Storage Ring and held it out to Lin Zhiyan.

"Zhiyan, this is a fifth-rank Soul-Nourishing Pill. Taking it will help restore your Spiritual Sense."

Lin Zhiyan accepted the pill, nodded, swallowed it, then immediately sat cross-legged and began refining its medicinal power.

Only after seeing her enter a state of cultivation did Li Bufan finally relax.

He sat down beside Lin Zhiyan, but rather than immediately cultivating, he closed his eyes and began recalling the sensations from his pill refinement just now.

That feeling... was wondrous.

Treating the pill as though it were a person, using the Spring and Autumn Needle Technique to guide the Vital Energy of heaven and earth, then using the Great Sun Golden Yang Flame for a second tempering... This whole process might have looked wildly unorthodox, but the principles within it were utterly real.

A pill might not be a person, but it possessed spirit.

The spirit of herbs and trees, the spirit of medicinal potency, the spirit of heaven-and-earth Vital Energy... These things gathered together, underwent the tempering of flame and the guidance of pill formulas, and ultimately took shape as a medicinal pill. This in itself was a process from nothing to something, from disorder to cohesion.

And his Spring and Autumn Needle Technique had originally been meant to restore one's Origin Essence.

Since it could restore a person's Origin Essence, why could it not restore a pill's Origin Essence?

The more Li Bufan considered it, the more he felt there was reason to be found within it.

He immersed himself in this insight, continuously deducing and simulating it in his mind. The flashes of inspiration that had flitted past during pill refinement were now