Once Xiao Hua had finished examining the various spirit herbs for the Azure Spirit Pill, the pill furnace had warmed up properly. He opened it and tossed the herbs into the furnace one after another in a fixed order, beginning to refine the medicinal liquid. Then he took out the spirit herbs from the other pill formulas and inspected them just as carefully as he had the Azure Spirit Pill's herbs.
As he went through the pill formulas one by one, Xiao Hua's brows gradually furrowed. It seemed there were principles he could not understand. He set down the jade slip and turned his gaze back to the pill furnace, watching the medicinal liquid within boil.
Was my thinking too simplistic? If it were merely the principles of the Five Elements and the way of yin and yang, then perhaps four or five kinds of spirit herbs would suffice! Yet which of these pill formulas used so few herbs? Some of the herbs in these formulas clearly seem to have nothing to do with the pill at all, so why must they be included? Without the specific refining methods, I'm afraid I can't understand the uses of these herbs!
What should I do? Xiao Hua scratched his head in secret. After waiting a while, he saw that the medicinal liquid had nearly finished refining and it was time to merge the liquid. Suddenly, his brows relaxed. He slapped his forehead and laughed. *I was overthinking it. Which of these pill formulas has not been passed down for thousands, even tens of thousands of years? Over all those years, they must have been tempered a thousand times over and altered in countless ways before becoming what they are now. They were probably just a few simple spirit herbs at the very