Ancient Pill Formula for a Second-Tier Meridian-Protecting Pill (Two-in-One; Please Vote)

At Taichang Market, inside a room at the One Leaf Pavilion.

Flames surged high as three second-tier Fire-Swallowing Sparrows took turns breathing crimson fire.

The Three Thousand Harmony Furnace glowed with an even more brilliant spiritual radiance beneath the flames.

The furnace began spinning rapidly. A moment later, the flames gradually subsided.

"Condense!" Ye Qingyan barked.

The fire dispersed, and the furnace slowly settled. As he used the Spirit-Enhancing Secret Art,

the lid lifted, revealing three round, crimson pills.

"Finally!" Ye Qingyan's face lit up with delight.

"I hope you'll be useful." He cleaned the furnace, then examined the pills closely.

The pills he had refined this time followed none of the Ye Family's existing formulas.

They were a new kind of Meridian-Protecting Pill,

developed from the first-tier, superior-grade version.

For the Ye Family's spirit beasts taking first-tier Advancement Pills, first-tier Meridian-Protecting Pills had been enough.

But at the second tier, several accidents had already occurred among the spirit beasts on the Ye Family's Soaring Cloud Peak.

In most cases, their meridians could not withstand the surge of bloodline energy, and they had exploded and died on the spot.

Research into a second-tier Meridian-Protecting Pill had therefore become urgent.

Of course, this was different from developing an entirely new formula.

Ye Qingyan had improved the pill based on the existing Meridian-Protecting Pill.

First, he replaced some of the main ingredients with second-tier spirit herbs of the same kind. Then, accounting for how Advancement Pills stimulated the bloodline and made it swell, he added some cold-attribute spirit materials.

That could greatly ease the strain on a demonic beast's meridians.

"If it were Eleventh Great-Uncle, he'd probably have figured it out in a year or two." Ye Qingyan put away the pills and recorded the formula on a jade slip, still a