The fragrance of medicine wafted into Huang Xiao's nose. Though faint, its effects were astonishingly miraculous: his mental state recovered rapidly, and so did the true qi within his body.
With Huang Xiao also using Everlasting Spring Ageless True Qi to mend his injuries, his recovery became faster still.
After just an hour, Huang Xiao opened his eyes. They shone brightly, and he had completely recovered from his earlier injured, dispirited state.
Rising to his feet, Huang Xiao clenched both fists and felt extraordinary strength in them. He could not help exclaiming, "I actually recovered completely so quickly. Both my injuries and my true qi have recovered, and I'm in even better condition than before. My strength seems to have improved a little."
"Hm? It's gone?" Huang Xiao sniffed. The faint, miraculous medicinal fragrance had vanished from the air around him.
Huang Xiao looked at the fire jade pillar in the lava pool. Apart from the nine Jade Slips, there was nothing else on it.
"I thought it was a Longevity Pill. Looks like I was getting ahead of myself," Huang Xiao said, shaking his head with a sigh.
Given that medicinal fragrance and its miraculous effects, it was no wonder Huang Xiao had thought so. But clearly, there was no Longevity Pill here.
After withdrawing his gaze, Huang Xiao more or less understood where the fragrance had come from. It should have emanated from those nine Jade Slips.
Perhaps some medicinal pill aura lingered on the Jade Slips. After all, this was the Longevity Pill Manual, presumably a treasure belonging to some master of alchemy. It was possible that it had picked up some of the pills' medicinal properties during pill refinement.
When he had tried to seize the Jade Slips earlier, he had triggered those medicinal properties, allowing