She tucked Big Treasure into her sleeve for the time being.
Although Treasure-Seeking Mice had vanished without a trace long ago, there was no guarantee that someone widely knowledgeable would not recognize what Big Treasure was.
Xue Fuyao entered a lavishly decorated shop and bought a Spirit Beast Pouch specifically meant for holding spirit beasts.
She secured the Spirit Beast Pouch inside her sleeve, then had Big Treasure live inside it from then on.
Next, she went to a shop specializing in spirit plants, intending to buy some grain seeds and some common spirit fruit trees.
Some time had passed since she left the Qingfeng Secret Realm. It was time to put alchemy on her agenda; otherwise, the spirit medicines in her Portable Medicinal Garden would be nothing more than decorations.
However, she had no fire spiritual root, so if she wanted to refine pills, she would have to do it in an alchemy chamber with earthfire.
If she did not want to do that, her only option was to subdue a heavenly flame. She did know some news about heavenly flames, but she had no idea whether it was true. She could only investigate each lead in person.
Xue Fuyao planned to start with the simplest thing: refining Fasting Pills.
As the most common everyday consumable among cultivators, Fasting Pills were also the simplest to refine. The ingredients they required were very common as well: spirit grain, cloud-tip grass, and spirit spring water.
Depending on individual preferences, Fasting Pills refined from different types of spirit grain varied, and higher-quality spirit grain generally produced better Fasting Pills.
Of these three ingredients, only cloud-tip grass could not be replaced. Spirit spring water could be substituted with ordinary spring water, dew, or water in which Spirit Stones had been soaked.
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