Body Tempering Pill

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Power Progression

Properties

Body Tempering Pills stimulate bodily activity, helping cultivators sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, loosen blocked meridians, and temper mortal flesh. They are chiefly useful during the Body Tempering Realm and are ordinarily issued to new disciples as introductory cultivation support 3 4.

• A standard low-quality pill is peanut-sized, black and dull, with a scorched smell mixed with faint medicinal fragrance 3.
• Ordinary users may experience swelling and intense heat throughout the body; this force can be directed to open meridians 3.
• Higher-grade pills have fewer impurities, are absorbed more effectively, last longer, and leave less pill toxin behind 11.
• High-grade pills are pale gold and carry a refreshing medicinal fragrance rather than the burnt odor of low-quality pills 4.
• Pills can be repeatedly used to advance cultivation, unlike Bone Tempering Pills, whose effectiveness sharply diminishes after the first dose 27.
• Their usefulness declines at higher realms; even top-grade Body Tempering Pills offer little benefit after reaching the Qi Refining Realm 45.

Uses in Cultivation

Meridian Opening

A Body Tempering Pill's medicinal power can be guided along the Body-Refining Formula's circulation route to strike open blocked meridians and establish a complete internal cycle 4.

• Chen Huai'an opens two blocked meridians after refining one gourd-enhanced high-grade pill over two hours 4.
• He later uses more than twenty top-grade pills and Spirit Spring Water to open thirty meridians before the initiation test 13.
• Five high-grade pills allow him to open the remaining thirty-five primary, extraordinary, and collateral channels required for the first level of the Body Tempering Realm 16.

Breakthrough Support

Superior grades are especially valuable at bottlenecks and can substantially increase the chance of a breakthrough 12.

• A high-grade Body Tempering Pill may improve the strength of a late-stage Body Tempering cultivator 10.
• Xu Qing seeks a high-grade pill after mid-grade pills provide little help in overcoming his bottleneck toward the seventh level 11.
• Chen Huai'an preserves suspected supreme-grade pills rather than consuming them during routine cultivation, intending to reserve them for breakthroughs 12.

Grade, Value, and Availability

• The Qingyun Sect distributes two Body Tempering Pills to every newly admitted outer or servant disciple 3.
• Servant disciples also receive one Body Tempering Pill each month through sect benefits 5.
• Pills may be purchased with spirit stones or sect contribution points, while missions can provide either contribution points or spirit stones 5.
• High-grade pills are rare among servant disciples, can attract thieves, and are risky for an unknown low-level disciple to display openly 11 22.
• At Spirit Spring Peak's trade fair, Chen Huai'an exchanges one high-grade Body Tempering Pill for ten low-grade spirit stones 44.

Purple-Skinned Gourd Refinement

The Purple-Skinned Gourd Space can improve certain Body Tempering Pills, transforming low-quality examples into high-grade pills and apparently raising mid-grade examples to supreme-grade 4 9 12.

• A low-grade pill generally requires one day in the space to become high-grade 30.
• Mid-grade pills require several days to reach supreme-grade 30.
• Low-grade pills cannot progress beyond high-grade no matter how long they remain in the space 30.
• Not every item placed in the space can be upgraded, and the quantity of items that can advance increases with Chen Huai'an's cultivation 30.