Inside his first-class cave residence at the Green Wave Hall's Formation Pavilion, Han Li put the plans for his newly created Void Positioning Formation into his Storage Bag. His fingertips unconsciously rubbed the first-class token at his waist, engraved with the character for "formation." Outside the window, green waves rippled, and the sea breeze swept past with its salty dampness, yet it could not dispel the thought in his heart-It was time to visit the Pill Pavilion.
Since his promotion to first-class steward, Han Li had made repeated breakthroughs in formations, yet he had become increasingly aware of how pills constrained his cultivation. Last month, while repairing the teleportation formation in the Mist Islands, he had exhausted so much spiritual power that, relying only on ordinary Spirit-Restoring Pills, he had needed a full seven days to stabilize his cultivation. With an Essence-Nourishing Foundation-Stabilizing Pill, he might have recovered in three. More importantly, formation materials such as nether yin iron and star-pattern sand often shared their origins with auxiliary pill ingredients. Understanding the principles of pill refinement would surely help him refine Formation Flags.
Elder Mo once said, "Formations and pills share the same source; both are arts of controlling spiritual energy." Han Li recalled the white-haired elder's words in the Formation Research Room, his eyes gradually brightening. Learning pill refinement at the Pill Pavilion might take my mastery of formations another step further.
Having made up his mind, Han Li went to the Steward Hall the next day to request an audience with Elder Sun.
Elder Sun's meeting chamber occupied the top floor of the Formation Pavilion. Several formation repair reports lay spread across a sandalwood desk, and portraits of the Star Palace's formation masters through the generations hung on the walls. When Han Li entered, Elder Sun was bent