Chapter 56

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Before long, Xia Yusan arrived at the pill room with several attendants, each carrying boxes of medicinal herbs.

“Master Ye, these are all the herbs you requested, valued at a total of seven thousand taels of silver,” Xia Yusan said with a smile.

Ye Wushuang opened the brocade boxes one by one, carefully inspecting the contents. After confirming everything was in order, he took out several silver notes.

“Very well, then. Master Ye, feel free to refine whatever pills you wish. I shall not disturb you further,” Xia Yusan said, before leaving with her attendants.

Ye Wushuang now stood before the pill cauldron, not in a hurry. Beside him, Xu Qiuyuan sat idly, lost in thought. He had just asked Ye Wushuang three questions that had long troubled him about spiritual arrays, and Ye’s answers had been like a bolt of lightning, illuminating his mind. Now, he was too absorbed in savoring these revelations to pay attention to anything else.

Ignoring Xu Qiuyuan, Ye Wushuang began to prepare for his task. In this vast world of martial cultivation, there were various professions, but the three mainstream ones were naturally the pill masters, weapon masters, and array masters.

Martial cultivators relied on medicinal pills to aid their cultivation and on divine weapons to enhance their power. As for array masters, they were extremely important to the great families and powerful factions. In addition to these, there were also some rare special professions, such as puppeteers, poison masters, and beast tamers.

Pill masters needed herbs, pill formulas, and pill fire to refine pills. Herbs were naturally the various spiritual plants, herbs, and fruits that grew across the continent. For a pill master, the most crucial elements were the pill formulas and pill fire.

A pill formula was an essential recipe for refining pills, the result of countless attempts by pill masters. To them, the value of a single pill formula far exceeded that of ten pills of the same grade. As for pill fire, it was divided into many levels.

Martial cultivators, as they cultivated, could draw in spiritual energy through their bodies and, after it passed through their internal organs, could condense it into pill fire for refining pills. In addition to this, there were different types of fires, such as wood fire, beast fire, earth fire, heavenly fire, and divine fire.

Wood fire was naturally produced by the burning of materials that contained intense heat. Beast fire came from the cores of fire-attribute spiritual beasts, which pill masters could integrate into their own pill fire, giving it similar properties.

As for earth fire, heavenly fire, and divine fire, they were still far beyond Ye Wushuang’s current reach.

Now, standing before the pill cauldron, Ye Wushuang gathered spiritual energy in his palm and carefully examined every part of the Dragon Cauldron. As a pill master, he needed to be one hundred percent accurate in handling the cauldron, the herbs, and the pill formula, as well as in controlling the pill fire.

Having taken on a new body, Ye Wushuang was gradually regaining his old skills.

At this moment, in a room next to the pill room, Xia Lei and his daughter, Xia Yusan, stood there, closely observing Ye Wushuang’s every move.

“Father, if Ye Wushuang discovers that we’re watching him like this, it could cause trouble…” Pill masters, weapon masters, and array masters all had their secrets and detested being spied upon.

“No worries. If we don’t speak of it, how would he know?” Xia Lei said. “I’m just curious whether this Ye Wushuang truly knows how to refine pills.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Wushuang had already begun his work. Spiritual energy flowed from his palm, swirling around the pill cauldron. With a sudden movement, he lifted the cauldron into the air, suspending it there.

The cauldron weighed a thousand pounds, but to Ye Wushuang, it was no burden. Then, with one hand controlling the Dragon Cauldron, he used the other to gently caress its surface. Gradually, a faint flame began to rise from the cauldron’s body.

“Father, what is he doing?” Xia Yusan asked, her face filled with curiosity.

At this moment, Xia Lei’s expression was one of astonishment, as if he had been struck by something truly amazing.