Chapter 3484 — The Ice-Heart Jade-Bone Pill Is Complete!
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"Mm, then Aunt Qing will be waiting for you!" Aunt Qing nodded.
After hanging up, Wei Zhao told Wang Xinyan and Han Jingyi what he had in mind—after refining the pills, he planned to head for the Ice Palace.
Wang Xinyan and Han Jingyi naturally supported him wholeheartedly. Wei Zhao meant what he said, and he was ready to start refining right now. He had four sets of ingredients for the Ice-Heart Jade-Bone Pill, all of them given to him by You Panhu back then, who had handed him twelve sets of Tier-Three pill ingredients in total: four for the Great Return Pill, four for the Ice-Heart Jade-Bone Pill, and four for the Qi-Gathering Pill.
The Qi-Gathering Pill ingredients had already been mixed together and used up by Wei Zhao earlier. All that remained were the Great Return Pill and the Ice-Heart Jade-Bone Pill, and Wei Zhao intended to refine them all in one go. The Great Return Pill was highly useful as well—not so much to Wei Zhao himself, but to Han Jingyi and Wang Xinyan it was a lifesaver.
With the experience of refining the Qi-Gathering Pill behind him, Wei Zhao handled it like an old hand this time.
Following the prompts on the screen, Wei Zhao placed four sets of Ice-Heart Jade-Bone Pill ingredients into the cauldron and pressed the confirm button.
"Beep, beep..." The tablet gave two crisp, drawn-out tones, then displayed: "Pill-refining script generated. Auto-analysis based on the weight inside the medicinal cauldron: four sets of ingredients loaded this session. Estimated refining time: two hours and fifty-two minutes. Please store up physical strength and true qi in advance. Estimated pill yield: five."
A refining time of under three hours was not long. But the projected yield shown on the cauldron left Wei Zhao slightly disappointed. Only five? Previously, five sets of Qi-Gathering Pill ingredients had produced seven Qi-Gathering Pills!
Of course, every kind of pill was different, and so the results differed as well. This was still better than others could manage, so Wei Zhao's disappointment lasted only an instant before he began refining.
Wei Zhao cleared his mind of stray thoughts, sat cross-legged, and circulated the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art. Following the prompts, he swiftly channeled the physical strength and true qi within his body into the Shennong Medicinal Cauldron. The cauldron gave a crisp, faint hum in response, and the tablet beside it displayed the words "Refining beginning, preheating..." alongside a countdown timer.
As expected, with one final crisp hum, the refining was declared complete. The cauldron lid opened, and a rich medicinal fragrance charged by a biting cold rushed at his face. Hot as it was, it made him shiver uncontrollably.
This had to be the peculiar effect of the Ice-Heart Jade-Bone Pill—a truly cold-to-the-bone pill. Unless one had a specific constitution, ordinary people truly had no fortune to enjoy it.
Once the cold had dispersed, Wei Zhao looked into the cauldron and saw five Ice-Heart Jade-Bone Pills, their quality identical to the earlier Qi-Gathering Pills—all of the finest grade. Five was already plenty, of course. After all, Bingtang had only asked for one.
Once the refinement succeeded, Wei Zhao did not pause; he went right on to prepare the Great Return Pill.
Again he loaded four sets of Great Return Pill ingredients, but what Wei Zhao had not expected was that the screen now read an estimated yield of six. The same four sets—five for the Ice-Heart Jade-Bone Pill, but six for the Great Return Pill! Truly rather remarkable.
Then again, when these pill formulas were first devised, they might not have been all that accurate; they were all derived from one experiment after another by pill refiners. Some formulas yielded a little more per set, some a little less. If you refined only a single pill, there was no difference—but refine several at once, and the difference became obvious.