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.
• Body Tempering Pills are the lowest-tier foundational pills and are consequently suitable for novice alchemists to practice refining 165 173.
• The primary ingredient named in their refinement is Blood-Coagulating Grass; herbs with two or three years of growth can be used as materials 165.

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.
• The materials for one furnace of low-grade Body Tempering Pills cost approximately one-fifth of a low-grade spirit stone, while a full successful furnace can produce ten pills 165 173.
• An alchemist must successfully refine at least one furnace in every five to break even when making ordinary Body Tempering Pills 165 173.

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.
• Chen Huai'an intends to refine low-grade pills himself, then use the Gourd Space to raise them to high-grade, multiplying their value many times over 165.

Alchemical Refinement

Chen Huai'an acquires the Five Elements Alchemy Art and begins refining Body Tempering Pills with his silver pill furnace and Primal Chaos True Flame 164 165.

• The Five Elements Alchemy Art requires Five-Elements Force and balances the attributes of medicinal ingredients during pill formation 164 165.
• Refinement requires purifying the medicinal liquids, merging them while precisely controlling the firepower, forming pills, and finally separating and drawing out the completed pills 165 173.
• A lapse in concentration, emotional disturbance, inadequate spiritual power, or poor fire control can cause a batch to fail or the pill furnace to explode 166 172 173.
• Chen Huai'an initially tries to improve through simulated refinement with Spirit Spring Water, but concludes that actual refinement experience cannot be replaced by theory or simulation 166 173.
• By repeatedly exhausting and restoring his spiritual power while practicing in the mine, he tempers that power, strengthens his Divine Sense, and improves his medicinal-liquid purification 172.
• After thirty failed furnaces, Chen Huai'an produces his first three low-grade Body Tempering Pills; his estimated success ratio subsequently improves from one successful furnace in thirty to one in twenty 173.
• His immediate goal is a one-in-five success ratio, at which point refining ordinary Body Tempering Pills would become profitable rather than consume Spirit Stones 165 173.
• Chen Huai'an exhausts his available Body Tempering Pill materials during this initial practice and must obtain additional low-grade spirit-herb seeds or herbs before continuing 173.