Many of the ideas within seemed to stray from the orthodox path, yet they made Song Yan's eyes light up.
This Thousand Elixirs and Unusual Prescriptions truly lived up to the word "unusual."
What surprised him most was its mention of an alchemy method he had never even imagined.
"Sword Qi Alchemy?"
When Song Yan first saw those words, his instinctive thought was not of alchemy.
Instead, it was of a term mentioned in the Sword-Planting Technique.
Sword pellets.
However, that was actually a method closer to Sword Dao artifact refining.
Song Yan carefully read through the account in Thousand Elixirs and Unusual Prescriptions and confirmed that this was a method of Sword Dao alchemy.
In the understanding of other cultivators today, the term Sword Qi referred to an offensive means formed by condensing and transforming Spiritual Power.
Its essence was still Spiritual Power.
But if the "Sword Qi" described in this preview really was the kind most people understood it to be...
Then condensing Spiritual Power and transforming it into Sword Qi to refine pills was fundamentally no different from using Spiritual Qi to kindle a Spirit Flame for alchemy.
In fact, the latter was more widely applicable.
Then there would be no reason to study Sword Qi Alchemy.
And so, a vague feeling rose in Song Yan's heart.
"Could the 'Sword Qi' mentioned in this alchemy book... be the Sword Qi of Sword Cultivators?"
Unbidden, the scene of Sword Qi bringing forth the Moon-Supporting Ancient Lotus back on Beiya Mountain surfaced in his mind.
The Sword Qi within the Sword Mansion of the Dao-Subduing differed greatly in nature from Spiritual Power.
The preview of Thousand Elixirs and Unusual Prescriptions was short, and he soon finished reading through it again.
Song Yan immediately decided to have a copy of