Amid the wreckage of the collapsed wooden shelves lay numerous jade slips and beast-hide albums, along with all manner of bottles, jars, wooden cases, and jade boxes.
After sweeping his spiritual sense over the bottles, jars, and assorted containers, Lin Yun discovered that they were all empty, leaving him deeply disappointed.
The contents of the jade slips and beast-hide albums, however, came as a pleasant surprise. They recorded ancient pill formulas and illustrated descriptions of various spirit medicines.
This nameless ancient cultivator might have been terrible at refining pills, but his collection of reference materials was remarkably complete-a perfect example of a poor student with an abundance of stationery. Still, I'm the one who gets to benefit, he thought.
The albums describing primordial spirit medicines were especially valuable, recording their properties and applications in minute detail. Combined with the ancient pill formulas, they practically laid the medicines themselves before Lin Yun for him to study at his leisure.
Nangong Wan picked up a jade slip and read it for a moment. Delight first appeared in her eyes, but then she sighed.
"Alas... most of the spirit medicines in these ancient pill formulas have long since vanished. What a shame. Take this Nine-Curve Spirit Ginseng Pill, which can increase the chances of forming a Nascent Soul-where could anyone find spirit medicine of that caliber now? And the Spirit Candle Fruit needed to refine the Creation Pill has already gone extinct in the Mortal Realm."
Her voice was full of regret. Cultivation was exceedingly difficult for Nascent Soul cultivators in the Mortal Realm now, and these ancient spirit pills were rare treasures capable of advancing their cultivation. Yet without the raw ingredients, no one could refine them.
Hearing this, Lin Yun thought, *Not necessarily. There's Nine-Curve Spirit Ginseng in the Void Sky