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Ye Qingyan hid nothing.

"We do, but it's only basic knowledge. Your Highness Su Mu, you should know that alchemy has never really developed on the continent."

Su Mu certainly understood better than Ye Qingyan why the art of pill-making had failed to develop.

The Soul Master system of this era revolved around painstaking cultivation of soul power and hunting soul beasts to obtain soul rings for breakthroughs. Pills could only provide support, and their effects were negligible. They could not replace soul rings, which was the fundamental reason alchemy had never flourished.

Douluo I lacked a complete alchemical legacy. The continent's plant-type Soul Masters could only manipulate vegetation; they lacked theories and techniques for extraction and pill formation, as well as supporting tools such as medicine cauldrons and methods of stable fire control.

Only a handful of secret realms, such as the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, produced immortal-grade spirit medicines. High-grade heavenly treasures were scarce and grew extremely slowly, while ordinary herbs had too little medicinal potency to support the development of pill-making.

Even when Soul Masters found spirit medicines, most chose to eat them raw rather than expend the time and effort to refine them into pills.

When the major sects and empires competed for resources, their primary targets were soul beasts and spirit bones, not medicinal herbs.

Once a precious spirit medicine appeared, powerful figures were very likely to fight over it. Even if someone happened to discover a rudimentary method of alchemy, neither the techniques nor the finished products were easy to preserve, and the line of transmission could easily break.

Pills also carried hidden risks. Forcibly increasing soul power by taking them could damage a Soul Master's foundation and affect the upper limit of their future breakthroughs.

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