The Blackwater Ape blasted open the door to a stone chamber with one punch. A chamber over a hundred zhang wide came into Han Changming's view. Two green prayer mats sat on the floor, and there was nothing else.
In one corner stood a wooden shelf, upon which rested more than a dozen jade slips, along with several jade boxes and jade cases.
Han Changming carefully examined the jade slips and found five fifth-tier pill formulas, including the formula for the Five-Colored Glazed Pill, as well as a recipe for a fifth-tier spirit wine. The rest contained methods for cultivating spirit herbs or insights into pill refinement.
Judging from the contents of the jade slips, the owner of this stone chamber had been an alchemist. The Five-Colored Glazed Fruit had likely been planted by him, but some sudden incident had forced him to leave abruptly.
Besides the Five-Colored Glazed Pill, there was also the formula for the Phantom Spirit Pill.
The jade cases and boxes were completely empty. The spirit herbs had long since decayed, though traces of residue could still be seen.
Han Changming put away all the jade slips, jade cases, and jade boxes, then arrived at the entrance to the second stone chamber.
The Blackwater Ape smashed open the second chamber's door, and a surge of pure spiritual qi rushed out.
The chamber was only a little over a hundred zhang in size. A green fruit tree over three zhang tall grew within it, laden with more than twenty pale-green oval fruits. They glimmered with faint spiritual light, dreamlike and illusory.
"These are Phantom Spirit Fruits—the main ingredient for refining Phantom Spirit Pills."
Han Changming spoke excitedly. The Phantom Spirit Pill was one of the ten great miraculous pills, a fifth-tier medicinal pill. When Nascent Soul Cultivators