Roiling undercurrents and refinement

"Could he be one of THOSE people?" jerod asked seriously while drawing attention to the word those. omen sighed "it's highly possible but without him confirming it directly there is no sure way to know." he said honestly. "if he is one of those people it is imperative we make sure he doesn't become hostile towards us." the female elder said seriously. the scarred elder scoffed "don't let your fears decide your actions , i say we kill him and be done with this headache." he said coldly. the rest of the other elders all unanimously denied that idea. the reason for this was simply because if nick had the qualities they thought then he was worth more alive than dead not to mention any life saving measures he may have. all things considered having someone like nick on friendly terms was far better than having them as an enemy. "no matter what status he has it is best to remember that he is at the very least maintaining a cordial relationship with our sect and even is technically a part of us. i vote we leave him be and let things play out naturally." omen said seriously.

While not unanimous majority voted in acceptance thus passing the movement. nick of course was entirely unaware of this while he deduced pill recipes. nick fell into a cycle of month long deduction and quick missions for the next half a year until he finally deduced three pill formulas for body refinement , healing and cultivation. in this time sarina had turned the ape into her own personal protector while also breaking into the spirit gathering tier. nick taught her an archery qi art since she turned out very talented in the field that she started working on when she had free time after maintaining the house. nick collected a set of the materials for each of his new pills in order to test their efficacy. the refinement process was fairly simple with nick reducing each material into its medicinal essence while removing the parts he didn't want carefully. the next step was when problems started to appear were nick needed to fuse the various essences together in the correct ratios. the problem was that the material essence had its own spirituality when it reached tier seven and as a result they tried to devour each other and needed him to suppress them during this process which was draining.