The chocolate candies Chu Ge ate were a different variety from Qiu Wuji's. Qiu Wuji was primarily strengthening her body, while Chu Ge had just broken through and needed to consolidate his foundations and nourish his essence.
This was also Chu Ge's first time taking an "Immortal Elixir."
In theory, pill refining was nothing particularly mysterious. It simply involved extracting the essences of various medicinal ingredients, combining them according to different arrangements of Emperor, Minister, Assistant, and Envoy, and producing various effects through reactions under different conditions and temperatures, crystallizing them and so on. It was no different from chemical principles.
The superficial difference was that, regardless of the raw ingredients, everything here was ultimately condensed into pills of different colors... There were actually elixirs condensed into other shapes too, such as one that looked like a rabbit and could even run? But nothing like that existed in Chu Ge's setting, so they would forever remain pills.
The substantive difference was that, compared with medicines in the real world, these pills truly deserved to be called "Immortal Elixirs." Taking one really could rid a person of every illness. The Essence-Nourishing Pill Chu Ge took also had that equally miraculous quality of "melting in the mouth." The moment he put it in his mouth, it dispersed throughout his meridians. Chu Ge could see with perfect clarity as energy coursed through them, flowing like a hundred rivers into the sea and gathering in his dantian.
The hazy energy in his dantian grew increasingly dense, looking more and more as though it were about to turn from gas into liquid.
Chu Ge knew this was no illusion. In his own setting, the gradual liquefaction of the energy in the dantian was the process of gradually bringing Foundation Establishment to completion. Once it had