Youjialuo's Fury

No one dared defy Ji Kongling's authority.

The moment he spoke, no one dared make another sound.

Wu Jing was grateful from the bottom of her heart. Then she slowly began:

"Everyone, I did not cheat."

"I believe most of you here already know that among the materials provided by His Highness the Crown Prince, there was no Rootless Dew, Ten-Thousand-Year Sunflower, or Thousand-Legged Poison Silkworm Fluid needed to refine the Wuwang Pill."

"And that is precisely why everyone suspected that I cheated in refining the Wuwang Pill."

"In truth, I used other medicinal ingredients in place of those three."

The moment she said this, the people below found it even harder to believe.

"What? Replacing them with other medicinal ingredients?"

"How is that possible? Once a pill formula is set, how can its ingredients be replaced so casually?"

"Exactly. If that were possible, what would be the point of having pill formulas at all?"

Youjialuo said nothing, because she knew Wu Jing was speaking the truth.

Wu Jing truly had used other medicinal ingredients to replace those three.

Wu Jing continued, "To be honest, before this, I thought the same as all of you."

"Once a pill formula is set, how could it be changed at will?"

"However, I received guidance from Senior Brother Jiang. A single sentence from him gave me profound insight."

"Senior Brother Jiang told me that when a master refines pills, he takes heavenly treasures and earthly wonders for no more than their medicinal properties. And medicinal properties are not unique to any one heavenly treasure or earthly wonder. So long as the mixture is properly formulated and other ingredients can be blended to produce equivalent medicinal properties, they can naturally serve as substitutes."

"Take the Thousand-Legged Poison Silkworm Fluid, for instance. The reason the