In the next market town farther north.
After Liu Dongqing and Meinu landed, they did not wander through the entire market town.
After showing themselves for only an exceedingly brief moment, they took a slight detour, pretended to be strangers, and each rented a room at an inn in the market town.
After casually dismissing the inn attendant.
The instant they brushed past each other in the inn corridor, Meinu once more discreetly slipped the storage jade talisman in her hand into Liu Dongqing's palm.
A moment later.
With the doors and windows tightly shut.
Liu Dongqing sat alone in his room. With a flip of his hand, he placed that familiar jade bowl before him.
The Pill Formula for the Nine Ganoderma Fire Dew Pill surged through his mind. As he pondered, Liu Dongqing skillfully processed the various spirit materials.
Very soon.
A bowl of dark-purple medicinal slurry filled the jade bowl.
Then Liu Dongqing casually tossed out a seed of a Medicinal Vine offspring, one that had been nurtured at some unknown time. Wrapped in a Divine Vine Pill Sigil, it fell directly into the jade bowl.
Liu Dongqing had grown increasingly adept at using the Pill-Descending Art.
Almost in an instant, dense roots and woody nodules grew forth. When Liu Dongqing planted a Medicinal Vine offspring atop the woody nodule again—
In no more than a dozen breaths.
The medicinal slurry inside the entire jade bowl had completely dried up.
After that, the lush Vine Fruit Tree unfurled countless branches. It blossomed and bore fruit in an instant, and soon, more than three hundred purplish-red Elixir Fruits had formed on its branches.
Next, Liu Dongqing pinched three or four Elixir Fruits in his hand, burned them with azure flame, and formed the pill-gathering hand seals.
As the