Time flew by. Twenty days passed.
The first morning clouds glowed, and all things stirred back to life.
Inside the master bedroom of Tairan's Grotto-Abode, the Tianshu Bottle beside the meditation cushion shone with spiritual light. As its mouth drew in the final wisp of the world's vital energy, a flawless Embryonic Pill quietly formed within it with a faint pop.
Xu Yan slowly opened his eyes and looked toward the Tianshu Bottle.
He immediately curled his palm and drew the flawless Embryonic Pill out, placing it inside a blue bottle.
"The second one..."
He now had two flawless Embryonic Pills. The previous one was naturally the pill that had absorbed vital energy inside the Immortal Treasury.
Xu Yan slowly rose and left the master bedroom.
The moment he pushed open the door, pill energy washed over him from the main hall. The fragrance of medicinal ingredients was exceptionally rich within the Candle Breath Cauldron at its center, and residual heat still lingered inside.
On a nearby worktable sat a full twenty-five blue bottles, each containing Foundation-Nourishing Pills.
Xu Yan had hardly been idle these past twenty days. Every day had been full.
He rose during the hour of the dragon to cultivate Mystic Qi, then fired up the cauldron to refine pills, and studied the forms of Edict Script in the evening.
He had exhausted the remaining fifty-year-old five-element spirit herbs. With only five failures, he had produced ten bottles of upper-middle-grade Foundation-Nourishing Pills and fifteen bottles of high-grade Foundation-Nourishing Pills.
Sold to the Treasure Pavilion, these would fetch a full eleven hundred spirit stones.
Counting the four hundred and twenty spirit stones from his earlier sales, Xu Yan had effectively spent only three hundred spirit stones on these raw materials.
Looking at it that way, the profits truly