Published: August 25, 2025
Chapter 243: The Effect of the Medicine
Han Li flicked his finger, sending a speck of green light flying into the flames. With a sudden “boom,” the fire surged upward several feet, and then, unexpectedly, Li Huayuan’s voice came through—short and clear.
“Come to Green Wave Cave immediately. I have something to discuss with you!”
As soon as the message ended, the flame suddenly flickered and burst into countless sparks, vanishing without a trace.
Han Li listened calmly, then rubbed his nose and first headed into the bedroom.
Inside, Han Li pulled out a small wooden box from under the stone bed. Inside the box were a dozen or so storage pouches of various designs. He took one from his body, emptied all the talismans he had stored inside, and then, sorting them carefully by type and rank, placed them into separate pouches.
After pushing the box back to its original place, he hesitated for a moment before leaving the bedroom and heading straight for the cave’s main gate.
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Standing on the Divine Wind Boat, Han Li reflected on the past four years—his cultivation and talisman crafting—and his expression grew somewhat heavy.
When he first sealed off the cave, Han Li cultivated while also opening a hidden inner courtyard herb garden within the mansion. Though small, it was enough to grow the herbs he needed for medicine incubation. The advantage was that during seclusion, he didn’t have to worry about anyone discovering his growing herbs. He could remain entirely within the cave and be self-sufficient.
To ensure the herbs absorbed spiritual energy, he drilled countless tiny secret holes in the mountain rock wall above the garden to let sunlight and spiritual energy in. Of course, these openings were all within the protection of a grand formation, so there was no fear of being discovered.
The larger external herb garden was planned by Han Li to serve purely as a cover.
With this small herb garden, Han Li could confidently incubate spirit medicines while simultaneously refining pills using innate true fire. Although true fire was slightly inferior to earth flame, it was much safer and more reliable, and he didn’t have to fear repeated refining failures.
The pills refined from ancient prescriptions were indeed extraordinary.
After refining Qi Refining Powder and taking it, Han Li once again experienced the explosive spiritual energy sensation he felt during foundation establishment, which startled him into immediate meditation to refine the energy, not daring to slack off in the slightest.
Such an amazing effect naturally led to his magical power skyrocketing in the first year, far beyond expectations.
This luxurious method of pill consumption saved Han Li a great deal of time in absorbing spiritual energy, allowing him to devote himself fully to refining it into magical power. The improvement in his magical power was naturally multiplied many times over!
Han Li was overjoyed! Relearning the Blue Origin Sword Technique three times suddenly seemed entirely achievable!
Though the Blue Origin Sword Technique did cause the strange phenomenon of magical power dropping every few days, under his regimen of taking a packet of Qi Refining Powder every six or seven days, this flaw could be completely ignored.
During this period, Han Li was also curious enough to try taking a foundation establishment pill once, but its effect was minimal, so he decisively abandoned that idea.
But in the following three years, something unexpected happened.
Starting from the second year, the sense of abundant spiritual energy from taking the Qi Refining Powder gradually diminished, year by year. By the fourth year, it was as if the pill had lost all effect, like the earlier Yellow Dragon Pill and Golden Marrow Pill. No matter how many packets he took, he could not feel any spiritual energy at all.
This gave Han Li a headache and left him puzzled!
It was definitely not because his magical power had improved so much that the Qi Refining Powder’s spiritual energy couldn’t keep up. By its nature, this pill should have been effective even if he took it until the late foundation establishment stage. It was refined according to ancient prescriptions! It might even have considerable effect on core formation stage cultivators!