The shopkeeper was a tall, burly old Orc. Even in the bitter winter, he wore only thin clothing, his rough skin covered in thick body hair, as he lounged lazily inside the shop.
Many strange flowers and herbs were scattered throughout the shop. Each of these unusual plants had its own distinctive colors, and a refreshing fragrance filled the room.
After Han Shuo strolled inside, he merely glanced at the old Orc before continuing among the plants on his own, carefully identifying these unusual flowers and herbs as he searched for what he needed.
Among Chu Canglan's memories was a portion concerning pill refining. He had acquired it after killing a Daoist cultivator who refined pills and taking the man's pill-refining Cultivation Art for himself.
For a time, Chu Canglan had devoted considerable effort to studying that pill-refining Cultivation Art. Following it, he had even personally refined several batches of pills.
However, apart from an Alchemy Furnace and a pill-refining Cultivation Art, the most important requirement for refining pills was the ingredients. The more precious the pills, the rarer the materials they required. Many were spiritual treasures of heaven and earth, and one had to gather enough ingredients before attempting to refine pills.
In the world where Han Shuo had originally lived, severe pollution had gradually turned all the famous mountains and great rivers into tourist attractions, and certain rare medicinal herbs had long since been harvested to exhaustion. Even with Chu Canglan's supernatural ability to fly through the skies and burrow through the earth, he had spent a year or two gathering only enough ingredients for a single batch of Origin Returning Pills.
Precisely because the ingredients were scarce, and because Chu Canglan was not a particularly patient man, he had ultimately abandoned using pills to increase his strength.