After True Person Suqing left, Fang Qing returned to the pill chamber.
The strange phenomena of cinnabar, jade, and the like had yet to dissipate.
Residual Dark Azure qi rolled across the ground like serpents and pythons—
He came before the pill furnace, a faint smile touching his lips.
Secretly pocketing pills was the sort of thing only lowly cultivators did. He had long since surpassed such a realm.
By now, pill refining was cultivation itself. One session of refining the Great Chun Pill had deepened Fang Qing's understanding of [Wall Water], and through the method of "severing the Dao," he had gained no small benefit.
What was "severing the Dao"?
Severing the Dao was not severing the pill!
In truth, when refining pills, the pill qi interacted with the alchemist outside. This too was a form of the "returning pill" method.
Whether in pill scriptures of the Breath-Nourishing Dao or the Qi Refinement Way, there were legends of pill boys tending furnace fires and refining profound pills, only for their own cultivation to reach great completion once the pills were complete. This was the principle behind it.
Put another way, it was making the cake bigger, then taking a share of the profits.
Xu Hei's body was the same. While refining pills, he had operated the returning pill method and resonated with the pill qi of the Great Chun Pill, cleansing and refining his Dao Foundation anew.
His current Dao Foundation was no worse than those true disciple cultivators of immortal sects who had taken Third-Order True pills and were promised a Purple Mansion.
Mm—after this, I should urge Xu Hei to cultivate the Rebirth Earth Divine Ability I compiled. With the top-grade Purple Mansion spirit object left behind by the Sect Master of Corpse Yin to assist him,