Apart from his appearance, Qin Xuan also carefully examined his body after taking the pills.
There were two significant improvements.
The first was his soul force.
After consuming the Soul Nourishing Pill · Yang, he could clearly feel the last bit of stagnation in his body disappear.
His entire body felt incredibly clear, and his movements were no longer awkward.
The second improvement was his cultivation.
He had advanced from the initial stage of Qi Refining to an astonishing third stage of Qi Refining!
He had skipped over the stages from first to second and second to third!
This made Qin Xuan extremely happy.
He knew that without absorbing additional spiritual energy from heaven and earth, his cultivation could not advance further.
Yet, by simply consuming two pills that nourished his soul, his cultivation had leaped from the first stage of Qi Refining to the third stage.
If he could add the resources from the Qin family's warehouse, wouldn't he be able to directly advance to the fourth stage of Qi Refining and enter the middle stage of Qi Refining?!
Wait, resources?
The mention of resources suddenly reminded Qin Xuan of the two small wooden boxes still in the small wooden cabinet.
He retrieved the wooden boxes from the ruins of the cabinet.
One contained the method for making a bronze lock, and the other held a letter.
"Peiyuan Pill..."
"Consuming it can strengthen the foundation, cultivate the origin, and enhance cultivation..."
"Holy crap?!"
"This is the formula for the Peiyuan Pill?!"
He picked up the letter and read it softly, and Qin Xuan was immediately startled by what was written.
Because the letter recorded nothing else but the formula for the Peiyuan Pill, which Qi Refining stage cultivators could freely consume!
As everyone knew, every medicine had a degree of toxicity.
However, the Peiyuan Pill was an anomaly among pills.
It had no medicinal toxicity!
Key point!
No medicinal toxicity meant that the consumer did not need to specifically refine the toxins after consuming it.
In other words, as long as the conditions allowed, you could eat as much as you wanted!
Moreover, as one of the basic pills used by cultivators, cultivating with it not only strengthened the foundation and consolidated the realm but also refined essence into qi, helping cultivators to improve their cultivation!
With such top-tier medicinal effects and such top-tier characteristics, the Peiyuan Pill had become the most popular pill among cultivators, bar none!
Of course, this did not mean that one could arbitrarily improve their cultivation with the Peiyuan Pill.
Its help to cultivators was also limited.
According to the medicinal properties that Chen Xuan had told Qin Xuan, the Peiyuan Pill only showed significant medicinal effects when consuming the first and second pills.
After that, the more you ate, the less obvious the medicinal effects became.
Furthermore, the Peiyuan Pill's ability to enhance cultivation was very limited.
Except for new cultivators who had just absorbed spiritual energy into their bodies and achieved the Qi Refining stage, for cultivators above the Qi Refining stage, consuming it generally had no effect on improving their realm.
However, even so, its function of strengthening the foundation and cultivating the origin still made every cultivator keep some on hand.
Even if they couldn't use it themselves, it was good to keep it for their favored disciples or juniors.
Chen Xuan had previously thought about refining a batch of Peiyuan Pills for Qin Xuan, but unfortunately, Qin Xuan had nothing at the time, and the main ingredient for the Peiyuan Pill, the Peiyuan Grass, was impossible to find.
As a result, the effort to plant flowers did not yield blossoms, while unintentional planting of willows produced shade.
Now, as long as he followed the method on the formula to refine two batches of Peiyuan Pills, Qin Xuan could use these resources to advance further and improve his cultivation.
However...
Qin Xuan did not have the three-legged, three-holed pill furnace, nor did he possess the utmost rigid and yang spiritual internal fire.
Wasn't this equivalent to having a treasure mountain but no place to use it?
Unwilling to give up, Qin Xuan immediately ignored whether Qin Shoujiang was nearby and began to communicate with the formula using his mind.
He refused to believe that without the so-called professional tools, he couldn't refine this thing!
Peiyuan Pill Formula: Of course, you can. As long as the heat is sufficient and the method is correct, you can even rub out the Peiyuan Pill out of thin air with pure strength. For such low-grade pills, Pill Saints always rub out a large batch with a wave of their hand.
Qin Xuan: "..."
From the formula, Qin Xuan heard a new term: Pill Saint.
However, this had nothing to do with him at the moment.
After learning that other methods could also control the formation of the Peiyuan Pill, he began to rack his brain, trying to select a suitable heating appliance from the many available.
But with so many tools available now, even he couldn't analyze which one was most suitable for alchemy.
Huh?
Wait.
A few months ago, wasn't there a news report about someone using a pressure cooker to boil medicine, which broke the pot and dried up the medicine?
The herbs in that case were indeed glowing red, one by one, like medicinal pills.
Could he try refining pills with a pressure cooker?
However, traditional pressure cookers seemed unable to control the precise internal temperature. He wondered if electric pressure cookers could be used...
With this thought, Qin Xuan wasted no time.
He immediately called Qin Shoujiang and asked him to prepare several of the best quality electric pressure cookers for him.
After all, mere scattered medicinal materials would no longer provide any improvement for him.
He might as well try, and perhaps there would be unexpected gains.
As for the other resources in the warehouse, Qin Xuan did not touch them.
Except for the medicinal materials needed to refine the Peiyuan Pills, he put all of them back for the use of future Qin family descendants.
After obtaining the pressure cookers, Qin Xuan, too impatient to sleep, began to study the formula.
There were only three batches of raw materials for making pills, meaning he had only three chances for experimentation.
Therefore, to save every herb in his hand, Qin Xuan meticulously communicated with each electric pressure cooker.
Finally, from the ten electric pressure cookers prepared by Qin Shoujiang, he selected the most suitable model.
Taking a deep breath, he opened the lid and then, following the order, placed the prepared medicinal materials into the pot in batches.
Waiting was always the most agonizing part.
When the heat reached the stage for collecting the pill as described in the formula, Qin Xuan immediately controlled his mental power to probe into the electric pressure cooker.
However, he did not find the condensed liquid medicine that the formula mentioned.
What he saw was only a lump of black charcoal, a charred residue.
"Strange, what went wrong?"
After confirming the failure, Qin Xuan cast a big question mark on whether electric pressure cookers could successfully refine pills.
Just then, Qin Shoujiang, who had been watching by the side, suddenly asked curiously, "Xuan'er, since your mental power can observe the internal situation of the pressure cooker, why don't you use your mental power to check throughout the entire process?"
"This way, if any problems occur inside the pot, you can try to intervene."
"Since it's an experiment, it's best to keep observing at all times."