Inside the Quiet Room.
Xiao Yan took out the Earth Fire Lotus Platform and sat cross-legged upon it.
He swept a hand over his Storage Ring. A jade bottle floated out, and the moment its stopper came free, an intensely scorching aura surged forth.
Xiao Yan tipped the pill from the bottle and examined it closely.
The pill was crimson, with what looked like liquid magma flowing inside it. Its energy was clearly violent to the extreme, yet it had somehow formed into a pill.
"[Balance] was even more frightening than I'd first imagined.
No matter how ingenious other Alchemists were when creating formulas and refining pills, they had to make sure all the Medicinal Herbs could combine and the pill could form properly. That meant giving up countless possibilities.
But I was different. As long as a Medicinal Herb's properties didn't weaken the pill's effects, I could use [Balance] to form a pill from even the most violent ingredients."
Xiao Yan rolled the crimson pill between his fingers and thought of the Tribulation Lightning Pill from the original story.
The Tribulation Lightning Pill was refined with Pill Lightning as its main ingredient, and its most basic effect was to increase cultivation.
Its grades ranged from Eighth Tier all the way to a Tier 9 Profound Pill.
A Tier 9 Profound Pill used Nine Profound Golden Lightning as its main ingredient, a Tier 9 Precious Pill used Black Demon Thunder, and Eighth Tier versions used Pill Lightning of various kinds.
(The original story lists Third Tier, Eighth Tier, Tier 9 Precious Pill, and Tier 9 Profound Pill versions of the Tribulation Lightning Pill, but never says what lightning the first two use. I made that part up.)
By rights, a pill made from tribulation lightning that offered the ever-popular benefit