After Cao Yue and Cao Ying left, Lu Heng sat back down before the stone platform and turned his gaze toward the Myriad Beast Cauldron.
These six months of frenzied pill refining had yielded far more than he had expected.
Through processing more than a hundred varieties of premium medicinal ingredients, his understanding of the principles of medicine between heaven and earth had reached an entirely new level. It was no longer limited to the Pharmacopoeia of Ten Thousand Worlds; even the knowledge instilled by the Pharmacopoeia of Ten Thousand Worlds could not compare to the tangible improvement gained through hands-on practice.
More importantly, the Five-Element Qi Vortex within Lu Heng's dantian had been repeatedly tempered through cycles of extraction and infusion. His abundant Dou Qi was truly only one final step away from the Dou Zun realm.
At the highest level of the Pill Tower, within the central hall.
Xuankong Zi, Sky Lightning Child, and Xuanyi sat around a stone table.
Elder Sheng Yao stood respectfully below them, holding a thick stack of dossiers in his hands, his manner exceptionally deferential.
"Reporting to the three presidents, this is a summary of the commissions completed by Guest Elder Lu over the past half year."
Sheng Yao presented the dossiers with both hands.
With a casual wave of Xuankong Zi's hand, the dossiers unfolded in midair without wind, spreading out neatly.
The records upon them were densely packed:
"Thirty-four Eighth-Rank Early-Stage pills, all of which triggered Pill Lightning of at least two colors, with a one hundred percent success rate."
"Nine Eighth-Rank Mid-Stage pills, triggering Four-Colored Pill Lightning six times and Five-Colored Pill Lightning three times, with a one hundred percent success rate."
"He even completed the medicinal principles of an incomplete ancient eighth-rank formula left behind by the Pill