Qu Zhigao thanked Zhang Xiaohua and gave him the pill formulas he could not understand. There were several formulas among them, with the "Bone Condensing Pill" recorded at the very front. As for the herbs used in these formulas, even if Zhang Xiaohua had been in Hui Chun Valley before, he might not have been able to gather them all. But now he was in the Incense-Passing Cult, and in the Pill-Refining Hall at that—a place where a great sect with an Immortal Path inheritance specially cultivated herbs. Other things, such as cultivation techniques, might have vanished into oblivion, but herbs used for pill refinement had never been in short supply.
Perhaps the medicinal uses of some herbs had already become unclear, and even the pill formulas could have been lost. Yet there was no denying that many ancient herbs had been collected and kept by different disciples, even if they did not know the herbs' names! Perhaps only Zhang Xiaohua's "foolish" practice of trading pills for herbs could make them cover their mouths and secretly laugh as they tossed out those nameless, worthless herbs.
At the very least, Zhang Xiaohua easily found the herbs needed to refine the "Bone Condensing Pill" among those several thousand jade boxes. Well, he had nearly forgotten—the three main ingredients used in pill refinement, Iron Bone Grass, Fragrant Soul Wood, and Lingmu Fruit, were also in other jade boxes. They simply were not as old as the three varieties Chen Fengxiao, Bai Huan, and the others had given Zhang Xiaohua.
Glancing at the warmed pill furnace, Zhang Xiaohua sent his divine sense into it once more.
The inner walls of the pill furnace contained methods for using and refining the furnace, along with a simple explanation of pill refinement. This explanation was specifically for