Brewing Pills for Zi Yan, Taking the Two Beauties Shopping

Night fell.

Inside Courtyard No. 1's alchemy room, Lu Heng placed the Chixiao Cauldron in the center.

Lu Heng laid out the sixth-tier Magic Core, essence blood, and seven medicinal ingredients he had acquired during the day.

These were not pills refined for outsiders, but special semi-finished medicinal pills specially prepared for Zi Yan.

They were not finished pills.

Finished medicinal pills emphasized perfectly harmonized medicinal properties and a self-contained whole. This was an advantage for human cultivators, but an obstacle for Zi Yan. Her dragon clan digestive system was better suited to directly devouring raw, violent energy. Pills that were too pure would instead have most of their power wasted by her constitution.

Therefore, what Lu Heng needed to do was fuse the pure energy within the Magic Core, the life essence within the blood, and the supplementary medicinal properties of the ingredients together, without carrying out the final pill-forming step.

He would preserve the energy's raw nature while removing its impurities and toxicity.

"Energy-compressed biscuits" designed specifically for magical beast constitutions like Zi Yan's.

Heavenly Flames entered the cauldron.

The two-colored flames of the Green Lotus Core Flame and Fallen Heart Flame surged within the cauldron, their temperature precisely controlled.

Lu Heng first added the medicinal ingredients, slowly extracting their properties over a low flame. Then he crushed and added the Magic Core, followed by the essence blood.

The three materials gradually fused under the roasting of the two-colored flames.

He refined them for an entire night.

When the sky began to brighten, Lu Heng withdrew the flames and lifted the cauldron lid.

Inside, twenty-four dark golden pellets the size of fingernails were neatly arranged. More accurately, they could not be called "pills." They were more like balls of compressed energy, faint glimmers of light still flickering across