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Xiao Yan briefly considered his wording before giving his answer.
It was only then that he realized he had never named this pill. Using a conventional name would clearly be inappropriate and might easily confuse others, so in his haste, he casually came up with a somewhat strange name. He then looked at the Shopkeeper of Qian Shan Fang, whose eyes had widened slightly, shock and astonishment rising within them.
"Lord Xiao Yan—is that true?"
The Shopkeeper of Qian Shan Fang had clearly been startled, but his years of experience running Qian Shan Fang allowed him to swiftly regain his composure. Only the gradually deepening furrows between his brows remained, as though he were forcibly suppressing the turmoil in his heart. He said seriously, "While I am surprised, pills of this sort have not appeared in the Great Thousand World for the first time. Since the very birth of the concepts of cultivation realms and pills in the Great Thousand World, countless alchemists have sought to use the power of pills to travel further along the path of cultivation. After countless years and countless setbacks, they improved and refined their methods, creating pills suited for nearly every realm."
However, pills were, in essence, a form of inheritance, no different from the cultivation arts and divine abilities left behind by ancient experts.
And due to the unique nature of the alchemist profession, pill inheritances were even more fragile than cultivation art inheritances, easily falling into the predicament of being severed between generations.
It was not merely a matter of pill recipes being lost. If the Spiritual Medicine required became extinct, or if it had not been passed down among the disciples of the alchemist who had originally created the pill recipe, the inheritance of that pill could be cut off