As Qing Chen inventoried the spirit plants, a thought suddenly stirred in his mind. "Cold mist grass, cloud-pattern vine, crimson essence fruit..."
With each name he recited, Qing Chen pointed at the corresponding spirit plant.
To his delighted surprise, he discovered that the vast majority of the ingredients needed to refine the Golden Jade Liquid Returning Pill were gathered here!
He only needed to find the remaining few second-tier, middle- and high-grade ingredients to complete the set.
Qing Chen stared blankly at the spirit plants shimmering with radiant colors in the spirit field, suddenly feeling his throat tighten-hadn't all those years of clawing his way along the edge of life and death been for this very moment?
"Hahahahaha! A Golden Core is within reach!"
Gazing at the Jade Pool Immortal Realm flickering in and out of view within the illusion, he suddenly threw back his head and laughed.
After all, the Golden Jade Liquid Returning Pill was among the easiest third-tier medicinal pills to refine.
For a medicinal pill that had undergone tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years of improvement and refinement, its formula was extremely mature, with nothing too obscure.
The difficulty lay in gathering enough ingredients for a batch, since condensing gold fruit and Jade Marrow Ginseng were both exceedingly precious.
Just one pill could increase a cultivator's chances of passing the Core Condensation Pass by a full thirty percent.
It also had a slight effect of preserving clarity in the spiritual mind, helping one face the second pass, the Heart Demon Pass.
It was known as the foremost treasured pill for Core Formation.
Qing Chen also had phoenix blood flowers and ice heart lotuses, for which he had his father-in-law's family to thank.
If he could also refine his magic power nine times with