He suspected this anomaly was related to the mysterious Twilight Nether Lantern floating in his sea of consciousness. He decided to look more into it later.
The next step was Stabilization. Strictly speaking, the orthodox recipe worked without Heartroot, but adding it was a secret trick a senior brother passed down to the ancient disciple. In modern alchemy, true masters dismissed Heartroot as cheap filler and used it only in low-level pills and basic ointments. No high-ranking alchemist would ever consider adding such a mundane herb to a cauldron filled with precious herbs.
Yet its neutral nature made it the perfect ingredient, capable of taming violent medicinal clashes without polluting the pill's potency.
'I guess the greatest secrets are often hidden in plain sight,' Su Ming thought with a faint smile. A fine powder made from Heartroot would dampen the violent energies inside the cauldron, absorbing the turbulent energy and binding the opposing currents into a single stream.
