Section 5: Probing - Refining the Hundred Herbs Pill

The Gongsun Clan's Scripture Repository was a six-zhang pavilion with red pillars and green tiles. Lush trees surrounded it, their verdant canopy casting deep shade. A gentle breeze stirred the leaves with a soft rustle, flowing through the window lattice and filling the pavilion with a secluded, refreshing coolness.

Chu Yun closed the Continental Gazetteer in his hands and returned it to its original place on the shelf.

Letting out a soft breath, he walked over to the window lattice. As he gazed at the lush woods outside, he sank into thought.

He had gone through more than a dozen related books in succession, and a vast amount of information now filled his mind. At this moment, he needed to sort it all out properly.

Pill Continent had similarities to Star Continent, but it also had its differences.

Star Continent was plagued by turmoil, while Pill Continent had enjoyed several thousand years of peace. It could truly be called an age of flourishing peace.

Pill Continent's landmass was vast beyond measure. There were no oceans at all, only inland lakes. Along the continent's outer edges stretched enormous swathes of chaotic forbidden forests. Those dense and perilous woods were home to countless powerful wild spirit beasts. They were Pill Continent's sole mysterious region, a place that had yet to be fully explored.

There was no concept of nations on Pill Continent. People formed clan powers through ties of blood, checking and counterbalancing one another.

This continent contained tens of thousands of different clans. The smallest had merely thirty or forty members. The largest numbered in the hundreds of millions and held dominion over entire regions.

The Gongsun Clan, where Chu Yun currently resided, counted as a newly risen clan at the lower end of the upper ranks. It had nearly a