"One furnace yielded seven pills, only thirty percent short of the perfect ten."
Zhou Yi casually swallowed one and refined it. Half an hour later, the True Essence in his dantian had increased by a trace.
"With my Spiritual Root, taking pills is more than twice as fast as cultivating Qi!"
He put away the remaining Yellow Sprout Pills and opened the furnace again, refining Lesser Restoration Pills and Body Tempering Pills.
Unranked pills were several times easier to refine than Yellow Sprout Pills.
He refined several furnaces in succession, each producing a perfect ten pills.
He used the Yellow Sprout Pills for his own cultivation. The Body Tempering Pills and Lesser Restoration Pills were enough to be called miraculous elixirs among mortals. If he distributed them to the nobles and officials who gathered Spirit Medicine for him, they would surely work even harder in the future.
He summoned a Heavenly Corpse Sect disciple and had him deliver them: one Lesser Restoration Pill and one Body Tempering Pill to each household.
They were all placed in exquisite sandalwood pill boxes. If the grade was lacking, the packaging would make up for it.
One worked internally, the other externally. Taken together, they could not restore youth, but they were enough to strengthen the body, prolong life, and improve vitality.
Just as Zhou Yi had expected, after taking the pills, the nobles and officials of the capital were completely convinced.
Even immortals could not fathom life and death, much less mortals.
For a time, medicine prices soared in the capital, and even a thousand gold pieces could hardly buy them.
Grand Tutor Zhou Yi, already known for his ruthless decisiveness and cruel methods, gained another title: Saint Hand of Elixirs.
After that, large quantities of pills flowed out of the Grand Tutor's