Golden light shot into the heavens again and again.

It left the spiritual qi throughout Lizhou vastly thicker.

Even ordinary mortals felt their bodies grow lighter, and cases of hidden ailments healing themselves occurred again and again.

"What manner of immortal pill is coming into the world?!"

Wu Dao'an was very nearly stunned senseless. Even with his long years of experience, and having leafed through the countless ancient texts in the armory, he had never once seen a sight so earth-shaking.

What struck him as even more absurd was that this golden light had now appeared for the twenty-sixth time.

Had Junior Brother Shen emptied the entire world of its spirit-herbs?

"..."

Compared to Wu Dao'an, the horror in Zhu Jue's heart — armory-keeper that he was — ran deeper still.

He had scented at least a dozen familiar medicinal fragrances.

Every one of them a treasure seen perhaps once in a thousand years.

And beyond those, there were richer, mellower fragrances still — ones even he had never heard tell of.

Pills refined from treasures this rare — could eating them turn a man into an immortal on the spot?

"Urp."

Within the log cabin, Shen Yi shoved a fistful of Spirit-Transformation Pills into his mouth and chewed numbly.

The sight set the Qingqiu Old Ancestor's heart hammering.

A single one of these pills was enough to vastly improve a Mixed Origin cultivator's odds of breaking through to Spirit-Transformation.

Which was why their numbers were so exceedingly few.

At the start, a furnace yielded only five or six; once its master grew practiced, no more than ten at most.

And in this short span—

it had watched Shen Yi swallow better than eighty of them.

Was it... was it really going to work?

Still, treasures of heaven and earth such as these were only not squandered once they had entered its master's belly.

"..."

Shen Yi swallowed the pills down, feeling the mighty medicinal potency dissolve within him, merging into the five viscera of his spiritual roots.

The Moon-Devouring Spirit-Gathering Art at Perfection could absorb medicinal potency utterly.

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