Three days later, Old Bai finished refining the Astral Qi Boosting Pills and notified Yue Wen to come pick them up.
When Yue Wen walked in, he saw a proud smile covering Old Bai's face. Meeting Yue Wen's gaze with one eye, Old Bai said, "The pills turned out even better than I expected."
Looking at the pill box on the refining table, Yue Wen opened it to check. Three fiery-red, round pills lay inside, with nothing unusual visible on the outside.
So he asked directly, "Go on, then. What sets you apart from all those mediocre alchemists this time?"
It was already a fixed routine, so he did not waste any time.
"Heh heh." Old Bai's eyes shone with excitement. "You don't know how Astral Qi Boosting Pills work, do you? Mystic Spirit Astral Qi Transformation Grass actually has the miraculous ability to transform spirituality into any kind of astral qi in the world, but its spirituality can't enter the qi sea directly. It has to be guided in through the Qi Sea Tide Immortal Fruit. My refining method preserves as much of the grass's medicinal potency as possible, greatly enhancing the pill's effects. But that also means the spirituality hits the qi sea harder. Anyone who can't withstand it could end up being harmed instead. That was why Master scolded me back then-I gave too little consideration to the safety of those taking the medicine."
"Sounds pretty similar to the Blazing Flame Powder I took back then," Yue Wen said.
He had first met Old Bai when he needed Blazing Flame Powder to help with his Great Fire Astral Refining. Old Bai's powder was extraordinarily potent, but its impact on the qi sea was just as intense. Excessive potency was not always a good thing; the physical condition