"Origin Power Pill? Just inhaling a small amount of its fragrance is enough to make my blood and origin energy stir. This is truly a Top-Grade Origin Power Pill!"
As the rich medicinal fragrance filled the air, Ryan’s eyes immediately lit up with pleasant surprise.
"Just throwing six waste pills into the furnace produced a Top-Grade Origin Power Pill! This Creation Furnace is truly incredible!"
At that moment, the pill floating in midair gradually lost its momentum before finally descending.
Ryan’s eyes were quick, and he immediately reached out with his right hand, catching the pill before it could fall.
It was warm against his palm.
When he opened his hand, he saw a perfectly round, pale-red pill resting in the center. Wisps of its alluring fragrance continuously drifted into the air, making him instinctively take another breath.
Ryan couldn’t help but hold the pill in his palm, turning it over and examining it with fascination. For a while, he was reluctant to put it away.
He truly hadn’t expected Mira to be so thoughtful as to provide detailed information about the functions and properties of the items produced by the Creation Furnace.
That alone saved him a considerable amount of time that would otherwise have been spent searching through ancient texts.
After all, Ryan was merely a graduate of an ordinary Welfare Institute. Compared to those born into powerful Bloodline Fighter families, his knowledge, especially his understanding of the deeper aspects of Bloodline Fighters, was still severely lacking.
Fortunately, his time at the Bloodline Institute had given him a solid foundation.
At least when it came to basic Bloodline Fighter knowledge, he was far from ignorant.
On the Crimson Expanse, pills were divided into nine tiers, with each tier further divided into four grades based on quality:
Low Grade, Medium Grade, High Grade, and Top Grade.
Top Grade pills represented the highest quality and most potent effects achievable within their respective tiers.
There were thousands of different pills, each with its own unique function, but they could broadly be divided into two major categories: Energy-Type Pills and Efficacy-Type Pills.
Energy-Type Pills primarily focused on improving one’s cultivation realm. After being consumed and refined, their medicinal power would ultimately transform into free-floating energy that could be absorbed by the body.
Most importantly, they could be consumed continuously without the user developing resistance to their effects.
Efficacy-Type Pills, on the other hand, produced various specialized effects upon consumption. However, the same type of Efficacy-Type Pill could not be consumed frequently.
The higher the tier of the pill, the more stringent this limitation became. Some heaven-defying, high-tier pills even had a strict limit on the number of times they could be consumed.
Repeatedly consuming Efficacy-Type Pills would gradually cause the body to develop resistance, reducing their effectiveness over time.
There were only two primary ways to overcome this problem.
Either consume a stronger Efficacy-Type Pill, or stop consuming them altogether for an extended period, allowing the body to gradually recover its sensitivity to their effects.
Among the countless Energy-Type Pills, the Origin Power Pill was undoubtedly one of the most widely used and sought-after pills among low-tier Bloodline Fighters.
Even the lowest-quality First-Tier Low-Grade Origin Power Pill was equivalent to the effect of consuming two or three Low-Grade Origin Stones.
After being consumed and refined, its medicinal energy could gradually increase a Bloodline Fighter’s total Origin Power, thereby slowly improving their cultivation realm.
Compared to Origin Stones, Origin Power Pills also possessed a higher absorption efficiency.
Origin Stones, meanwhile, were primarily produced within Primordial Stone Mines.
They were naturally formed treasures created through the accumulation of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the essence of the sun and moon. As a result, they contained large quantities of extremely pure Origin Power.
After being refined and absorbed, Origin Stones could likewise improve a Bloodline Fighter’s cultivation realm.
They were also excellent for rapidly replenishing Origin Power after excessive consumption.
Unlike pills, Origin Stones were solid and extremely stable, making them much easier to store and transport. Because of this, they had become the mainstream currency used in transactions between Bloodline Fighters.
Origin Stones were divided into four grades according to the amount and purity of Origin Power they contained:
Low Grade, Medium Grade, High Grade, and Top Grade.
Under normal circumstances, the exchange ratio between each grade was approximately 100:1.
With this knowledge flashing through his mind, Ryan finally realized just how astonishing the Creation Furnace’s ability was.
Initially, he had assumed that throwing a few waste pills into the furnace would, at best, allow him to recover a single intact pill of the same tier.
It was almost laughable to think that he had actually been reluctant to part with those waste pills.
Who could have imagined that the Boundless Creation Furnace would immediately give him such a vivid lesson?
It had thoroughly slapped him in the face.
Not only could the Creation Furnace transform waste pills into useful treasures, but it could actually amplify the value of those seemingly worthless pills by hundreds of times.
Under normal circumstances, even hundreds of waste pills would absolutely not be enough to exchange for a single Top Grade pill.
Top Grade pills were genuine hot commodities throughout the Crimson Expanse.
No one would willingly exchange one for a pile of waste pills.
Unless that person’s head had been slammed in a door.
And then slammed again.
And again.
If someone possessed a Top Grade pill, they would overwhelmingly choose to consume it themselves or exchange it for an equivalent amount of Origin Stones.
Yet Ryan had spent a mere six waste pills and obtained a Top Grade Origin Power Pill in return.
The exchange was ridiculously cost-effective.
It was practically a heaven-defying profit.
And that wasn’t even the most incredible part.
Ryan quickly realized that the Creation Furnace’s ability was far more advanced than he had initially imagined.
It completely eliminated the tedious process of conventional alchemy.
He didn’t need to gather countless ingredients, study complicated alchemical formulas, control the flames, or spend years mastering alchemy.
All he needed to do was provide the furnace with a sufficient quantity of energy-containing materials.
The Creation Furnace would handle the rest.
It was practically equivalent to having a top-tier alchemist permanently by his side, one who didn’t require rest, didn’t need to study formulas, and could directly refine Top Grade pills.
The realization made Ryan’s heart race with excitement.
This feeling was simply exhilarating!
At that moment, Ryan finally understood what Mira had meant by "energy-containing objects."
If he wasn’t mistaken, the term shouldn’t be limited to pills.
It should refer to any precious treasure or artifact that contained sufficient energy.
And then another possibility suddenly occurred to him.
Failed refinements.
The Creation Furnace probably wouldn’t care whether an item had been successfully refined or not.
As long as it contained energy, it should theoretically be usable as raw material.
That meant... Waste pills weren’t the only things he could feed into the furnace.
Discarded treasures.
Damaged artifacts.
Failed alchemical products.
Broken energy-containing items.
Perhaps even useless treasures that others considered worthless.
As long as they still contained energy, there was a chance that the Creation Furnace could transform them into something valuable.
The more Ryan thought about it, the brighter his eyes became.
He had just discovered an incredibly important loophole, or rather, an incredibly powerful function of the Creation Furnace.
If his speculation was correct, then the possibilities were practically endless.
Ryan couldn’t help but give himself a mental thumbs-up.
What a great genius he was!