Refining the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew Pill! Taking It!

Dugu Bo carefully controlled the temperature, making sure the herbs were neither burned nor allowed to lose their medicinal potency.

This process required immense patience and precise control.

If the temperature was too high, the medicinal potency would be incinerated.

If it was too low, the herbs would not fuse together.

Dugu Bo focused completely, his Dark Golden Dragon Eyes fixed tightly on the dark violet sphere of light in his palm.

Time passed second by second.

After roughly the time it took for an incense stick to burn, the sphere of light in his palm began to change.

The previously scattered herbs slowly fused under the tempering of the Netherflame, gradually condensing into a mass.

The dark violet radiance gradually faded, revealing two round pills within.

The pills were small, only the size of fingernails. They shone with a pale golden luster, with faint streams of light flowing across their surfaces.

A subtle fragrance wafted from the pills, refreshing the mind and spirit.

Dugu Bo let out a sigh of relief, a satisfied smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.

His first attempt at refining medicine had succeeded.

He held the two pills in his palm and examined them carefully.

Their color was even, their fragrance pure, and their medicinal potency contained within.

Though they were not top-grade, they were certainly high-quality.

For his first time refining medicine, this had far exceeded his expectations.

"Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew Pill."

Dugu Bo gave the two pills a name. "The effect of one pill in enhancing spiritual power is at least thirty percent greater than consuming it directly."

One Immortal Herb, two pills.

One for himself, and one for Yan Yan.

Both of their spiritual power would be greatly enhanced, laying a solid foundation for absorbing Soul Rings of higher age in the future.

As for his son and daughter-in-law, they were already undead, so taking them would be useless and completely unnecessary.

The stronger he became, the stronger the two of them would become.

Dugu Bo put one pill away and walked toward his granddaughter with the other.

"Yan Yan, stop for now."

Dugu Yan opened her eyes, a trace of confusion flashing through her emerald Dragon Eyes.

"Grandpa, what is it?"

"Open your mouth."

Though Dugu Yan did not understand, she obediently opened her mouth.

Dugu Bo flicked the pale golden pill into his granddaughter's mouth.

The pill melted the instant it entered her mouth, and a cool liquid slid down her throat into her stomach.

Before Dugu Yan could ask what it was, her mind boomed as though something had exploded within it.

The instant the cool liquid entered her stomach, Dugu Yan felt as if her consciousness had been lifted by an invisible force and slowly risen into the sky.

It was not her body that was flying, but her spirit.

She saw her own body seated on the bluestone, saw her grandfather standing beside her, and saw her parents guarding nearby.

She saw the spring waters of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes flowing, crimson red and snowy white intertwining into dazzling patterns.

She saw every Immortal Herb in the valley, every vein on every leaf clearly visible.

She saw farther away—beyond the valley, within the forest—a squirrel poking its head out of a tree hollow, a butterfly dancing among the flowers, and a stream babbling through the mountain ravine.

Every image seemed right before her eyes.

They were unbelievably clear.

Was this the perception brought by enhanced spiritual power?

Dugu Yan immersed herself in this wondrous state, unwilling to awaken for a long time.

Who knew how much time passed before the force lifting her consciousness slowly dissipated, and her perception gradually returned to her body.

When she opened her eyes, her emerald Dragon Eyes were clearer and brighter than before, as though a trace of lively light had appeared in their depths.

"How do you feel?"

Dugu Bo's voice sounded beside her ear.

Dugu Yan blinked and turned to look at her grandfather.

She discovered that her senses had become even sharper.

The dark violet Nether Qi around her grandfather had previously looked like nothing more than a vague mass to her, but now she could clearly see the paths along which it flowed.

"Grandpa, I feel like... the entire world has become different."

There was a note of amazement in Dugu Yan's voice.

"It feels like I can see everything more clearly and hear everything more clearly."

"And I can sense things from very, very far away."

Dugu Bo nodded in satisfaction.

The effects of the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew Pill were even better than he had expected.

Yan Yan's spiritual power had increased by at least twenty to thirty percent.

Though she was still far inferior to him, a Titled Douluo, at the level of a Soul Ancestor, she was already considered among the very best.

"This is the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew Pill, refined from Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew."

Dugu Bo explained, "It is specifically for enhancing spiritual power. Grandpa took one as well."

Only then did Dugu Yan realize that what her grandfather had fed her earlier was a pill.

"Grandpa, you know how to refine pills too?"

Dugu Yan's eyes widened, her emerald Dragon Eyes full of surprise.

In her memories, although her grandfather knew how to handle certain poisonous plants, he had never refined pills before.

How had he suddenly learned pill refinement?

The corners of Dugu Bo's mouth rose slightly, but he did not answer directly.

"There are still many things Grandpa can do."

Seeing her grandfather keeping her in suspense, Dugu Yan did not press further.

She knew that her grandfather had changed greatly lately, and there were many secrets about him that she could not understand.

But she trusted her grandfather.

If he did not say anything, then he naturally had his reasons.

"Alright, continue cultivating."

Dugu Bo stood up. "Your spiritual power has just increased, so you need time to adapt. Over the next few days, you may find your senses overly sensitive. That is normal. It will pass after a few days."

Dugu Yan nodded, closed her eyes once more, and continued cultivating.

Dugu Bo turned and walked to the other side of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes, sitting down on a bluestone.

He took out the other Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew Pill from the Ruyi Hundred Treasure Pouch and held it in his palm, his Dark Golden Dragon Eyes staring at the pale golden pill.

It was time for him to take his.

Dugu Bo placed the pill in his mouth.

The pill melted upon entering his mouth, and the cool liquid slid down his throat into his stomach.

Unlike Dugu Yan, Dugu Bo's spiritual power had already been extraordinarily powerful, and after being tempered by the Heavenly Tribulation, it had undergone a qualitative transformation.

After the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew Pill's medicinal potency entered his body, it did not trigger the intense reaction of his spirit leaving his body. Instead, like a stream flowing into the sea, it slowly merged into his Sea of Consciousness.

Yet the increase was undeniably real.

Dugu Bo closed his eyes and looked inward at his Sea of Consciousness.

His Sea of Consciousness, which had originally been as vast as a lake, expanded outward another circle under the nourishment of the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew Pill.

Though it was not a qualitative leap, the accumulation of quantity was equally important.

At the level of a Titled Douluo, every fraction of improvement in spiritual power was immensely precious.

"Not bad."

Dugu Bo opened his eyes, satisfaction flashing through his Dark Golden Dragon Eyes.

Two pills: one for Yan Yan, one for himself.

One Immortal Herb had enhanced the spiritual power of two people.

That was the greatest possible use of resources.

Over the following days, Dugu Bo did not leave. Instead, he remained at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes, guiding Dugu Yan's cultivation while studying pill refinement.

Dugu Bo had harvested the vast majority of the Immortal Herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes, leaving only some young sprouts that had not matured enough to continue growing in the ground.

But the Immortal Herbs he had collected could not simply be left gathering dust inside the Ruyi Hundred Treasure Pouch.

He intended to refine them into pills.