Several more hours passed. The pill refining furnace was full of ruined medicinal liquid; not a single spiritual herb had been successfully refined. Yet Chen Xun remained unhurried and unruffled, entering meditation to analyze the process.
"These heaven-and-earth spiritual herbs truly are strange. A difference in age, and the gap is already this vast."
Chen Xun mused inwardly. The same Foundation Establishment auxiliary herb, differing by merely ten years in age, already required entirely different heat control and techniques.
This was completely different from when he had refined Heavy Feather Pills and Qi Boosting Pills. Control over the heat had to be precise down to the herb's age. No wonder Qi Condensation Stage cultivators could not refine them.
These spiritual herbs likely required the legendary divine sense for complete control, greatly increasing the pill formation rate.
"Still, what I lack least is spiritual herbs and time." Chen Xun revealed a faint smile, finding it deeply interesting, with not a trace of discouragement over his failures.
Time passed amid Chen Xun's daily pill refinement. At first, he refined no more than five herbs a month. Whenever he failed, he recorded his experience and sensations, then entered meditation to probe the feeling from that moment.
Spring passed into autumn, and another year slipped by in haste. Medicine Valley remained warm as spring through all four seasons, and time seemed to have left no trace upon Chen Xun and Big Black Ox.
Within the secret base, Big Black Ox watched Chen Xun's pill refining furnace with bright, lively eyes. A medicinal fragrance drifted forth as it continuously sniffed with its bovine nose.
"Moo~~!!" Big Black Ox suddenly became excited. Chen Xun had truly worked too hard this past year, yet it had been unable to help at all, only capable of cultivating