The Black Sovereign Paste was a type of spirit medicine with no specific tier. That sounded odd to someone not in the know, yet it was nothing unusual. Within the cultivation world, many rare spirit medicines didn’t have an assigned tier. Of course, this did not mean that paste was weak or unclassified; rather, it was just that the tier was not fixed. Ultimately, the tier of this type of spirit medicine depended highly on the main ingredients used. In other words, the higher the quality of the primary material, the higher the tier of the final product.1

According to the formula Han Zhan had produced, first-tier ingredients could be used to make second-tier paste, while second-tier ingredients could yield third-tier paste. Naturally, to refine fourth-tier paste, one needed at least a third-tier ingredient.0

As for what the main ingredients were? That was rather flexible. Any demonic beast's scales, shell, hide, exoskeleton, or generally hardened exterior could be used as the main ingredient. It was precisely by extracting this inherent toughness of a demonic beast that the Falling Cloud Sect had crafted puppets that far surpassed those of other sects within the Eastern Wilderness.0

Of course, where there were pros,...0