It Snowed

The Foundation Pills were complete. Because there were so few ingredients, there were only two.

They looked like a pair of "twins."

Their color was bluish-yellow, their forms round and lustrous as jade.

They gave off the unique fragrance of grass and wood.

Setting aside the quantity and looking only at their quality—

Their color, weight, smoothness, fragrance concentration, and every other trait expected of Supreme-Grade Foundation Pills were no different from the ones Fang Xiaozi had refined.

In other words, Xu Changqing's first true attempt at pill refinement—and it was even a Foundation Pill that could only be consumed in the Foundation Establishment Realm—had produced supreme grade quality right from the start.

He forcibly suppressed the urge to swallow them. With a thought, he transferred them all into the Jade-Green Gourd.

It would not be too late to eat them next spring, on the day the Spiritual Qi Tide erupted.

After all, once winter arrived, the concentration of Wood Qi plummeted.

Eating them now would truly be a waste.

Afterward, Xu Changqing began cleaning up.

The ashes at the bottom of the golden cauldron,

The used wooden spoon, pestle and mortar, and so on—

He cleaned them all until they were spotless, without a speck of dust.

To be fair, he always felt that he had obsessive-compulsive tendencies.

When washing dishes before, he had only wanted to get them clean, so it might not have been very obvious.

But after switching to a full set of pill-refining equipment, he wanted there to be not even the slightest trace of impurity.

Even a tiny speck made him feel incomparably uncomfortable. He had to remove it.

Once everything was settled, Xu Changqing turned and headed for the stairs, quickly returning to the second floor above ground.

Outside, it was already late