The Eruption of Double-Layered Force

A few days later.

Lu Chen was practicing his fistwork in the rear courtyard when Little Green hurried over, carrying a jade box in her hands.

She held the jade box out to him, curiosity in her voice. "Big Brother Lu, Shopkeeper Wang from the Yam Herb Shop had someone deliver these pills."

Lu Chen slowly withdrew his fist, and the qi and blood within him settled.

He took the jade box and opened it. Inside, four rows of jade bottles were neatly arranged, each bearing a small label.

Metal Essence Pill.

Origin-Restoring Pill.

Lu Chen's eyes brightened slightly.

After waiting several days, they had finally arrived.

He picked up a bottle of Metal Essence Pills and pulled out the stopper. At once, a faint metallic, fishy scent mingled with medicinal fragrance and wafted out.

Unlike the mild warmth of ordinary pills, that scent carried a sharp edge, like a freshly honed blade or the cold fragrance of mountain ore washed clean by rain.

Lu Chen poured one out.

The pill was the size of a thumb, pale gold throughout, with faint, fine patterns on its surface, like gold threads winding around it.

This was the pill Ge Ye had refined using the essence blood of a metal-attributed exotic beast—the Metal Essence Pill.

It assisted in the cultivation of the Gold-Thread Jade Vestment Technique.

The Origin-Restoring Pills in the other bottle were reddish-brown, with a rich medicinal fragrance. They mainly replenished qi and blood, making up for the immense consumption of qi and blood during the cultivation of the Gold-Thread Jade Vestment Technique.

There were forty pills in total.

Ten Metal Essence Pills.

Thirty Origin-Restoring Pills.

For this batch of pills, Lu Chen had nearly emptied all the silver on him.

They had cost a total of two thousand three