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Heaven fed man through the Five Flavors: sour to the liver, bitter to the heart, sweet to the spleen, pungent to the lungs, and salty to the kidneys.1
The Five Flavors each had their own strengths, and when the five were gathered together, the soul was born.
This was the Green Satchel Book’s Five Flavors Soul Returning Powder.
Qi Lin saw that this prescription was perfect, an enormous help to the soul, and he saw some of the ingredients seemed to be very easy to obtain.
Gold-silver grass to the lungs, one leaf reed to the liver, ice-water stone to the kidneys, earth-dragon orchid to the spleen…Qi Lin very quickly purchased four of the ingredients, but the one representing the heart, water of truth-return, could not be found. By asking around, he realized that the water of truth-return itself was helpful for supplementing the soul. There was a shortage of soul supplement pills and medicines in the Ten markets, so ingredients like these that had even the slightest use were all in great demand, practically unable to be purchases. Even if other cultivators had it, they would not sell it unless they were in dire need of money.
“Water of truth-return grows in a belt of islands to the north, you could look there.” A merchant from the trade house suggested to Qi Lin.
The northern part of the Fog Spirit Archipelago stretched across three thousand li. It was full of innumerable craggy rocks, fantastical waterfalls that dropped down in mountain forests, forming spectacular scenery. Water of truth-return grew in lakes, waterfalls, ponds, and the like. It would wither upon meeting salt water, so finding water of truth-return was not difficult. What was difficult was that too many cultivators were foraging for them, so it was not easy to find even after hours of searching. This made Qi Lin a bit depressed. If the ingredient was so difficult to find, then the Five Flavors Soul Return Powder would be very troublesome to concoct. It seemed he would need to find a replacement.
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- Seems to come from a treatise by a certain Zhang Jiebin. ↩