Inside the Small Mountain Cave.
Xiao Yan bit her lip and curled up on the bed, feeling her very soul tremble.
"Girl, bear with it. This stuff improves your constitution from its deepest roots. It'll only help you, not hurt you. Just endure it until it passes," Apothecary comforted her.
For Xiao Yan, this truly was a "blessing," since she couldn't use anything better anyway.
For instance, even the mildest natural treasures used to refine Grade 7 or Grade 8 Pills would still "stuff Xiao Yan to death."
-"A frail body cannot bear rich nourishment."
Or, to put it more plainly-a wild pig couldn't stomach fine bran.
With "tonics," or natural treasures and the like, a higher "grade" wasn't necessarily better. After all, the Dou Qi Continent had no such saying as, "Once a golden pill enters my belly, my fate belongs to me, not Heaven."
The notion that a single miraculous pill could turn an ordinary person with no cultivation into a supreme powerhouse simply didn't exist, nor would it make sense.
Even a pill like the Life Devouring Pill, which overdrew one's potential and vitality, could only let someone break through to Dou Wang in a short time.
And on this continent, Dou Zong, who had touched upon spatial power, were really the gatekeepers to the ranks of true "powerhouses." Dou Wang didn't even make the list.
This world did have some "reason" to it, after all.
Aside from natural treasures, certain high-end pills would also cause "backlash" if taken incorrectly.
Even when the Gu Clan laid Gu Xun'er's "foundation," they wouldn't start by using high-end natural treasures for marrow washing.
-They already had a mild Grade 8 Pill waiting for her.
Of course, that sort of pill wouldn't send someone soaring to the heavens in a single