Chapter 125: I Did Not Show My True Form
Li Qiuchen had a considerable number of pill formulas in hand, including those he had originally obtained from the Jingyunzi, as well as the formulas from the Huyang and Langui sections of the Senluojing, with the Langui section containing the greatest number by far.
The reason he hadn't rushed to refine pills was twofold. First, his Medicine Master's Blessing was at a high level. Second, the Spirit-Gathering Pills worked too well.
If you were already holding a fully loaded AK with a fifty-round drum magazine, you wouldn't be thinking about a pocket pistol either.
But now Li Qiuchen had decided to recalibrate how he presented himself, and to let a certain aspect of his abilities show in a measured way.
Pill refining, specifically.
Medicine Master followers commonly moved through the world in the guise of wandering Taoist practitioners, occasionally selling pills to treat illness and save lives, using this to raise funds or conceal their true intentions.
On one hand, those who carried the Medicine Master's Blessing had a genuine facility for discerning the properties of medicinal ingredients, allowing them to produce and supply their own stock, and even to test medicines on themselves.
On the other hand, even without any real medical knowledge, the Medicine Master's Blessing could be used to improvise convincingly enough. Ordinary people had no way to tell the difference.
Some of the formulas Li Qiuchen held produced pills for advancing cultivation and strengthening the body's foundation. They would be of little use to him personally, but among his inner hall classmates they should find a ready market.