There were also stone shelves nearby, lined with bottles, jars, and simple utensils. This was clearly where Dugu Bo usually tinkered with medicinal herbs.
"This is where I usually refine medicinal herbs and prepare simple medicinal powders. The earth fire is stable, so you can refine pills here."
Meanwhile, Li Yuan evenly sprinkled the ground Clear Spirit Powder into the rotating, merging mass of medicinal essence.
The calming fragrance of the clear heart three-leaf clover blended in, drawing the radiance of the spinning mass inward and making its medicinal properties more stable and harmonious.
The entire process lasted about a quarter of an hour, until the last trace of Clear Spirit Powder merged into the mixture.
The spinning mass abruptly contracted, drawing all its radiance inward.
It transformed into three pills the size of longan fruit, their surfaces a soft, lustrous pale gold-blue traced with delicate cloud patterns. They rested quietly at the bottom of the cauldron, giving off a cool medicinal fragrance that refreshed the heart and soul.
Success!
Pulse-Protecting Ice Heart Pills!
And three whole pills, at that!
Li Yuan also used a special technique to condense the pale blue paste in the jade plate beside him into nine mung-bean-sized pills. They were translucent ice blue and radiated a pure chill.
These were purified Ice Heart Pills, their medicinal properties gentler and more focused, primarily intended to soothe agitation.
The Clear Spirit Powder was a fine, pale white powder stored in a jade bottle.
Li Yuan let out a long breath, waved his hand to store the pills and powder in separate jade bottles, and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
Success on the first attempt, and excellent quality, too!
"Senior, I have fulfilled my task."
Li Yuan put away two of the jade bottles.
Dugu Bo frowned