Chapter 2183 — The Mysterious Visitor
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Tian Canbian's features were delicate and refined—he was a handsome man through and through, though something about him gave off a faintly effeminate air. A trace of subtle wickedness lurked in his eyes, discouraging direct gazes. Behind him stood an old man of utterly ordinary appearance, dressed in coarse cloth. Yet despite his unremarkable look, the old man was a peak late-stage Heaven-rank expert—ample proof of how highly the Xuandan Sect valued this young sect master.
"Thank you, Young Master!" The Old Master was somewhat nervous and reverent. The peak late-stage Heaven-rank old man behind Tian Canbian had not sat down, yet he had been seated first—which showed that the young sect master still thought highly of the You family.
"Last time, the recipe for the Marrow-Cleansing Bone-Transforming Pill that your You Clan contributed was excellent. My grandfather verified it personally—it is truly a rare ancient formula!" Here Tian Canbian's eyes flickered with disappointment. "Only, to refine the pill described in this formula, one prerequisite is required. That is precisely why I have come to see you..."
The reason Tian Canbian set such store by this formula was that it was immensely important to the Xuandan Sect—important to the point of being irreplaceable! For all these years, the Xuandan Sect had been searching for this formula. Now they had found it, yet could not refine it—the most agonizing thing of all!
The formula for the Marrow-Cleansing Bone-Transforming Pill was only a third-rank formula. In theory, if the Xuandan Sect's patriarch—Tian Canbian's grandfather, Tian Diren—were to take charge of the refining, the success rate should have been quite high. Yet he had failed!
The ingredients were rare to begin with, and still he had failed. This left Tian Diren deeply vexed. As a result, he could not rush into refining; instead he consulted ancient texts far and wide, and at last found some clues.
To successfully refine the Marrow-Cleansing Bone-Transforming Pill, there was a prerequisite: the refiner must be a pill refiner of pure constitution. In other words, only a refiner who had himself taken the Marrow-Cleansing Bone-Transforming Pill could refine it!
Though Tian Diren did not know how the very first Marrow-Cleansing Bone-Transforming Pill had been refined—how that first refiner had succeeded without having taken the pill himself—the question was like the chicken and the egg: no longer traceable, and impossible to trace. Tian Diren could not be bothered to agonize over it. He simply wanted to find someone who had taken the Marrow-Cleansing Bone-Transforming Pill, bring them into the Xuandan Sect, and cultivate them into a formidable refiner to produce the pill.
Even if that person had no talent for pill refinement, Tian Diren would pour out rare treasures without limit to alter their bodily attributes and make them a refiner! Lacking a fire constitution, they could take the Flame Blazing Sun Pill; lacking a wood constitution, the Ten-Thousand-Year Spring Wood Pill. Every one of these pills ranked alongside the Ice Heart Jade Bone Pill as supreme elixirs capable of transforming a cultivator's constitution—and refining them or gathering their ingredients was doubly difficult!