Two years later, at a Zhang Household residence in the Divine Capital of Great Qian.
In the Alchemy Room, a pale cyan flame burned slowly within the cauldron's fire inlet.
The cyan firelight naturally gave off the fresh fragrance of vegetation, though the richer medicinal aroma masked it.
"Rise!"
With Liu Yu's low shout, the hand seal he formed shifted, and the cauldron lid immediately rose into the air.
Inside, seven pills the size of longan fruits were exposed to the air. Each bore two pale cyan spirit marks and radiated a faint, deep cyan glow.
The medicinal fragrance in the room immediately grew several degrees richer.
"Not bad."
"This Azure Pill Cauldron really is useful. It lives up to its standing as a treasure-grade pill cauldron."
"Even when refining third-tier spirit pills, it can raise the success rate by three to five percentage points, putting my success rate with Essence Refining Pills firmly above thirty percent."
Looking at the seven deep cyan pills the size of longan fruits inside the cauldron, Liu Yu nodded in satisfaction.
He then beckoned, drawing them into his palm. After checking that nothing was amiss, he placed them in a jade bottle and put it away in his Storage Ring.
By now, two years had passed since he arrived in Great Qian's capital, the Divine Capital.
True to his consistently low-profile approach, Liu Yu had spent an entire year investigating prices in the Central Region and the Divine Capital, along with their spoken and unspoken rules.
Only after that year had passed did he cautiously sell a millennium spirit herb, obtaining tens of thousands of spirit stones as his starting capital in the city.
He had little choice. His spirit stones had been nearly exhausted at the time, and he had yet to