Nineteen Herb Dispensing Room wasn't exactly close to Mo Wuji's residence. Mo Wuji sprinted all the way, taking nearly three minutes to reach the outside of the Nineteen Herb Dispensing Room.

Each Herb Dispensing Room was connected to an Alchemy Room, and the Nineteen Herb Dispensing Room was linked to the Nineteen Alchemy Room. Mo Wuji had inquired about the Nineteen Herb Dispensing Room, wondering why so few Pill Refiners came here.

The answer he received was that the success rate of the Nineteen Alchemy Room was extremely low. Whoever refined pills here had a higher chance of failure than anywhere else, and it wasn't just a little bit higher. Over time, fewer and fewer people came to the Nineteen Alchemy Room to refine pills.

Wu Kai arranging for Mo Wuji to be at the Nineteen Herb Dispensing Room seemed like a great favor, filling Mo Wuji with gratitude. However, it also restricted Mo Wuji's development. Mo Wuji had long told Wu Kai that his purpose was to learn about medicinal knowledge.

With no one refining pills at the Nineteen Herb Dispensing Room, how could he learn anything about medicinal knowledge?

In fact, Wu Kai subconsciously didn't want Mo Wuji to learn about medicinal knowledge. Theoretically, even if Mo Wuji studied for a hundred years, he wouldn't achieve anything. But he couldn't rule out the possibility that Mo Wuji was a true alchemy genius and would be taken in as a disciple by a Pill Refiner.

If Mo Wuji became a Pill Refiner's disciple, Wu Supervisor would have to stop and pay his respects to Mo Wuji in the future. This was obviously not an outcome Wu Kai could accept.

"Why are you only here now? Do you even know the rules?"

Mo Wuji had just stood at the entrance of Nineteen when an angry roar exploded in his ears.

Mo Wuji, whose eardrums almost burst, quickly retreated a few steps before he could see the other person clearly. It was an old man with a scraggly beard. Not only was his beard scraggly, but his hair was also messy, and he had many stains of medicinal liquid on his body.

Mo Wuji didn't dare to look at the other person for too long and quickly bowed and greeted, "Because I was afraid of being disrespectful to the Pill Refiner, I took some time to get dressed and wash up."

In fact, Mo Wuji hadn't slept at all. He was afraid that if he said he lived too far away, this Pill Refiner would immediately ask him to move closer.

As expected, after hearing Mo Wuji's words, the scraggly-bearded old man's tone softened slightly. After all, it was still just dawn when he called Mo Wuji over.

"Now, take my token and go to the Spirit Herb Repository to prepare these herbs. Be quick about it. If you waste even a single breath, you won't need to stay here anymore." The old man threw a jade token and a piece of animal skin paper to Mo Wuji and turned to enter the Alchemy Room.

Mo Wuji didn't dare to delay and quickly sprinted towards the Spirit Herb Repository.

The Traceless Sword Sect's Spirit Herb Repository was located inside the Sect Affairs Hall. Mo Wuji had already inquired about this. The Sect Affairs Hall was where Sect disciples received their monthly cultivation resources, accepted Sect missions, and received contribution points. Similarly, as long as you had Sect contribution points, you could buy anything here. It could be said that this was the liveliest place in the Traceless Sword Sect.

Mo Wuji was just a handyman disciple and didn't even have the qualifications to earn contribution points. He had to work for a full year before he was eligible to apply for Sect contribution points.

On the way, Mo Wuji looked through the animal skin paper. In his opinion, the animal skin paper definitely contained a Pill Formula.

The animal skin paper listed more than a dozen herbs, including Iron Spotted Flower, Azure Numbweed, Blue Flame Fruit, and so on. Mo Wuji recognized almost all of these herbs. From the characteristics of these herbs, Mo Wuji guessed that this was a type of tempering Pill Formula, most likely for tempering meridians.

Although he hadn't seen this Pill Formula before, Mo Wuji vaguely sensed that there was something wrong with it. It wasn't that his Pill Refining skills were higher than that old man's, but based on his understanding of plant characteristics and his recent study of that Dan book, he felt that putting Iron Spotted Flower and Ringed Cloud Bamboo Sprouts together would cause the medicinal properties of the Blue Flame Fruit to become unstable.

Mo Wuji believed that even the most advanced Spirit Herb was still a type of plant. Even if it transcended the category of plants, it couldn't escape the category of living things.

According to the Dan book he had read, which described the characteristics of Iron Spotted Flower and Ringed Cloud Bamboo, putting these two things together would weaken the wood-attribute medicinal properties of the fire element in the Blue Flame Fruit. And most Pill Refiners used Blue Flame Fruit as a spiritual medicine in their Pill Formulas mainly to take advantage of the wood-attribute fire element medicinal properties in the Blue Flame Fruit. Once the wood attribute in the Blue Flame Fruit was weakened, the Blue Flame Fruit would lose its purpose.

Unless it was an extremely powerful Pill Refiner who could control these three spiritual medicines. However, no matter how Mo Wuji looked at the slovenly old man, he didn't seem like a powerful Pill Refiner.

Mo Wuji didn't know how much the Blue Flame Fruit played a role in this Pill Formula or whether the Pill Formula could succeed without the Blue Flame Fruit.

These were not things he could manage. Who knew if the Pill Formula was intentionally trying to weaken the wood attribute in the Blue Flame Fruit? After all, he was only at the stage of understanding the characteristics of various spiritual medicines and didn't understand anything about Pill Formulas.

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Even though it was still early in the morning, there were already many people moving about in the Sect Affairs Hall. Mo Wuji rushed to the Herb Dispensing window of the Spirit Herb Repository as quickly as possible and handed over the jade token and the animal skin paper with the Pill Formula written on it, saying, "Herb Dispensing for Nineteen Herb Dispensing Room."

The guy in charge of dispensing the spiritual medicines looked at Mo Wuji with a smile that wasn't a smile, but he quickly helped Mo Wuji to gather all the spiritual medicines.

"The Nineteen Herb Dispensing Room is quite idle, isn't it?" The disciple of the medicine repository said suddenly when he handed the medicine to Mo Wuji.

Mo Wuji didn't know what he meant, so he smiled and said, "Indeed, this is the first time I've received a dispensing task in more than half a month."

The disciple of the medicine repository suddenly lowered his voice and said, "Brother, quickly prepare to change places."

"What do you mean?" Mo Wuji stopped and asked suspiciously.

"Do you know what Pill Formula you came to dispense today? This Pill Formula is called the Meridian Coagulation Pill. It's a newly acquired Pill Formula by Pill Refiner Shi. I heard that it can coagulate the resilience of spirit meridians and enhance the potential of cultivators. It's a Grade 3 Human Spiritual Pill. Master Shi is a Grade 2 Human Pill Refiner, and this pill is too difficult to refine. Let me tell you, Pill Refiner Shi has already changed seven Alchemy Rooms in order to refine the Meridian Coagulation Pill. Each time Pill Refiner Shi fails in refining pills and changes to the next Alchemy Room, he will drive away the Herb Dispensing handyman disciple of that Alchemy Room…"

Hearing this, Mo Wuji cursed inwardly. This bastard's Pill Refining skills are not good, but he wants to vent his anger on us handyman disciples. If things were really as the Herb Repository disciple said, then he was definitely in great danger. If a handyman disciple like him was driven away by a Grade 2 Human Pill Refiner, Wu Kai probably wouldn't let him stay in his original residence. Once Wu Kai used the excuse of him being driven away by a Grade 2 Human Pill Refiner to make him leave Blood Lotus Lake, he wouldn't even have room to protest.

He had finally gained a foothold and found a good place to cultivate. He was planning to seek more cultivation knowledge from the Sect and naturally didn't want to leave now.

No, he had to stop this from happening.

Seeing Mo Wuji in a daze, the disciple comforted him, "This junior brother, hurry back and hand in the medicine, and then find Supervisor Wu to think of a way."

In his opinion, Mo Wuji was able to get to the Nineteen Herb Dispensing Room, so he must know Supervisor Wu.

"Thank you, senior brother. I would like to ask if you have any Water Velvet Vine here?" Mo Wuji knew that he had to save himself. It seemed that the reason for adding Iron Spotted Flower and Ringed Cloud Bamboo to the entire Pill Formula was not to remove the wood attribute from the Blue Flame Fruit, but rather that Pill Refiner Shi didn't have the ability.

The Herb Repository disciple nodded and said, "Yes, we do, but this is not a spiritual medicine that Pill Refiner Shi wants. If you want to buy it separately, you need to exchange it with Sect contribution points."

Mo Wuji said with some difficulty, "I only have gold coins and don't have any Sect contribution points yet. How about I give you one thousand gold coins, can you help me exchange for one?"

The Herb Repository disciple didn't care and took out a Water Velvet Vine and handed it to Mo Wuji, "Water Velvet Vine is very common, one hundred gold coins is enough."

"Thank you very much, senior brother. My name is Mo Wuji," Mo Wuji said gratefully. This Herb Repository disciple didn't take the opportunity to rip him off, so his character was pretty good.

"My name is Fei Bingzhu. Junior brother Mo, hurry up and go. Master Shi's temper is not very good," the Herb Repository disciple instructed Mo Wuji again.

Mo Wuji quickly bid farewell and left. He wanted Water Velvet Vine to protect the wood attribute of the Blue Flame Fruit and increase the success rate of pill formation.

According to the introduction in the Dan book, the fusion of Iron Spotted Flower and Ringed Cloud Bamboo would form a large amount of metal Qi. This metal Qi could improve the quality of the pill, but that was only for Pill Refiners who had the ability. If the Pill Refiner didn't have the ability, this metal Qi would easily destroy the wood Qi in the Blue Flame Fruit. Water Velvet Vine contained a rich water Qi, which could nourish the wood Qi and reduce the consumption of wood Qi.

Mo Wuji didn't dare to adopt the means of suppressing the metal Qi because he was afraid of affecting the pill formation effect. Now that he knew that the reason for using Iron Spotted Flower and Ringed Cloud Bamboo in the Pill Formula was not to remove the wood attribute from the Blue Flame Fruit, adding Water Velvet Vine would not only be conducive to pill formation, but also reduce the difficulty of pill refining. In other words, the original Grade 3 Human Spiritual Pill could be refined by some Grade 2 Human Pill Refiners after adding Water Velvet Vine to protect the wood attribute. The only drawback was that the quality of the pill would be slightly reduced.

Mo Wuji didn't dare to take the Water Velvet Vine over alone. He mashed the Water Velvet Vine into medicinal juice and applied the medicinal juice to the surface of the Blue Flame Fruit.

This approach was just a lucky attempt. Once the furnace temperature was not controlled properly, the water element of the Water Velvet Vine would be completely melted and would not work at all. Mo Wuji was just trying his luck. If it succeeded, it would succeed. If it didn't succeed, he could only change places.

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