Three Connecting Flower Tendon Pill

Three Connecting Flower Tendon Pill (三花通脉丹 san hua tong mai dan)
== Info ==
This pill was extremely precious amongst medicinal pills. Its main ingredient, the Three Connecting Flowers, was exceptionally rare.
Even in the supermonastery, that kind of medicinal ingredient was extremely precious.
That kind of mysterious plant would have three flowers on a single branch. When those three flowers finally joined together, their colors would all be different from each other. It was something that only grew within frigid ice lands.
Furthermore, the Three Connecting Flower Tendon Pills required the Three Connecting Flowers to be at least a hundred years of age.
But the thing that made this pill so precious was that refining it was extremely time-consuming and the difficulty was extremely high. Even for Long Chen, refining a single furnace of Three Connecting Flower Tendon Pills required twelve hours.
There was no way around it. This pill required four different intervals and five different kinds of flame control changes. The odds of failure were extremely high.
And so ordinary Pill Masters hated refining the Three Connecting Flower Tendon Pill the most. For most Pill Masters, refining a single furnace of them would require at least three days.
And the failure rate was shockingly high, almost reaching eighty percent. After bitterly working for three full days, only to have the furnace of pills be trashed at the end, many Pill Masters would almost have an urge to kill themselves.
That made this pill extremely rare. Long Chen had only refined a couple furnaces of them before stopping, as it was just too exhausting.
But although it was exhausting, at least its value was shockingly high. It possessed an extremely powerful nourishment effect for the tendons.
Tendon Transformation was all about strengthening a person's tendons. Tendons were what linked the bones to the muscles. If you only had strong muscles but weak tendons, you would probably end up tearing yourself apart the instant you applied any force.
The first realm of cultivation was Qi Condensation, and the second was Blood Condensation. These two used qi to nourish the blood, using the blood to nourish the muscles such that their strength could reach the peak.
But if just the muscles were strong, that was useless. Muscles could only release as much strength as the tendons could bear.
Without tendons, powerful muscles were just dead muscles. And so Tendon Transformation was the third cultivation realm, a heavenly chasm that blocked people's cultivation paths.
Tendon Transformation was an extremely important juncture for cultivators. Only through strengthening the tendons could you release the full potential of your muscles.
As for the Three Connecting Flower Tendon Pill, it wasn't used to raise the cultivation base, but to nourish the tendons. It was practically a divine medicine to Tendon Transformation experts.
However, it was extremely rare. Even in the thirty-sixth monastery, a core disciple could only receive ten of them a month. Inner disciples would only get one a month.
As for outer disciples, they were essentially unable to obtain such a good medicinal pill. They could only substitute it with other medicinal pills. 
This kind of rare medicinal pill was something that only monasteries in the top fifty should be able to possess. In fact, Long Chen should have never even heard of it.
== Effects ==
The Three Connecting Flower Tendon Pill was a special medicinal pill that could be consumed more times. However, a person could at most consume ten. That would allow their tendons to reach their peak potential.
But Long Chen had found that his body's tendons were like a bottomless pit, crazily absorbing whatever medicinal energy he poured in, never reaching saturation.
Furthermore, as his cultivation base increased, his medicinal pill requirements only increased. Unfortunately, he had already eaten all of his Three Connecting Flower Tendon Pills.
If this had continued, Long Chen would have had no time for cultivating, and he would also have had no time for pill refining. With his original Pill Flame, refining Three Connecting Flower Tendon Pills was too time-consuming. To waste precious time refining medicinal pills within the Jiuli secret realm was truly a waste of his opportunity.
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