"Sir, you've been reading that book a lot lately. Are you planning to refine elixirs?"
Yi Shuyuan glanced beside him. Stoneborn was still sitting cross-legged indoors, circulating his qi, but Hui Mian had already come out.
"I could try if the opportunity arises. As the saying goes, the inner and outer are one. When the world within the body connects with the world outside, magic manifests. The furnace within refines the self; a furnace manifested outside can refine elixirs. When people think of immortals, many also think of Immortal Elixirs."
"But sir, the Immortal Dao no longer has an elixir-refining school. Even if someone does refine elixirs, those so-called immortal medicines are only such to mortals. They aren't much use to Immortal Cultivators."
Yi Shuyuan closed the book.
"It doesn't matter if they aren't much use. It can be a form of cultivation. As the various ingredients gradually form an elixir in the Alchemy Furnace, whether they converge to give birth to something numinous or become a heap of waste, that too counts as a Way of Transformation!"
"Anyway, if you want to refine elixirs, sir, you're sure to succeed!"
"Why?"
"No reason!"
Yi Shuyuan smiled. Hui Mian's faith in him was rather blind, but being trusted still felt good.
With that thought, Yi Shuyuan stood and tucked the book into his sleeve. Hui Mian quickly leaped onto his shoulder and asked excitedly.
"Sir, when will you start refining elixirs, then? Give me one when they're ready, will you?"
"You're getting ahead of yourself. I'll need a suitable Alchemy Furnace first, at the very least."
"Oh, that sounds like a lot of trouble. A furnace for refining Immortal Elixirs must be hard to come by. You can't use the Heaven and Earth Gourd, can you?"
"Indeed I can't. Sorry for