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The turtle pearl had come from the giant turtle beneath Immortal Spirit Lake, the distilled essence of centuries of cultivation. Everything the giant turtle had refined, apart from its monster core, had been condensed into spirit pearls. Since this was for his own use, He Lingchuan did not hold back. He dropped in a whole pearl at once.
The toad venom had an origin no less unusual. When the walnut boat crossed the Panlong Desert, State Preceptor Sun Fuping had harvested it from two golden toads that had leaped aboard. They were, at heart, merely toads, but warped into mutants by the Generous Pot’s influence. Like any toad, they secreted a thick fluid from behind the ears and skin folds. Once that fluid was dried, it became precious venom.
Sun Fuping, knowing its value, had taken what he could before tossing the carcasses overboard. But in the end, when He Chunhua looted him before his death, all of Sun’s treasures had passed to his enemies.
Now, with a kilogram of wild honey and imperial nectar in the jar, the syrup thickened so much the spoon could barely stir it. Once the five herbs went in, the liquid turned a muddy, opaque black.
Only after it began to bubble...
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