Wouldn't it be better to spend a little more time removing impurities from the pills and stabilizing their medicinal properties? Or to pay more attention to a magic treasure's resilience when crafting it?
Su Jiu couldn't understand it, but Qi Song had figured it out.
When Qi Song emerged with a bottle of pills, his expression was unusually grave.
"I suspect that, living in this world, practically any cultivator could become a Pill Refining Master."
Those were the first words Qi Song said to Su Jiu after he came out.
Even Su Jiu froze for a moment.
Qi Song poured the entire bottle of pills onto the table. They weren't particularly high-ranking pills, just a bottle of third-tier Spirit Nurturing Pills.
Yet every Spirit Nurturing Pill Qi Song had refined was plump and gleamed with a golden luster. White pill patterns resembling drifting clouds graced their surfaces; one glance was enough to tell they were superior-grade pills.
"A full cauldron of third-tier Spirit Nurturing Pills yields twenty-one pills. There are twenty-one here, and every one has pill patterns. In other words, I refined a full cauldron of superior-grade pills."
Su Jiu's pupils involuntarily contracted for a moment. Of course she knew what a full cauldron of superior-grade pills meant.
Even an eighth-rank pill master wouldn't lightly claim they could refine a full cauldron of third-tier Spirit Nurturing Pills.
But how had Qi Song managed it? As she considered this, Su Jiu turned her gaze toward him.
"Actually, I noticed something when I was refining second-tier pills in the arena earlier. But second-tier pills are too low-ranking to give me a particularly profound sense of it, so I thought it was just a coincidence.
"It wasn't until I encountered these inferior pills at the market that I vaguely realized I'd overlooked