Hu Haoran's seven thunder dragons battled fiercely against the three medicinal ingredients, but Shi Yanxu could clearly sense gray impurities emerging from the ingredients, vanishing the instant they touched Hu Haoran's lightning. These were the impurities contained within the three ingredients, and also the barrier preventing Soul Masters from successfully refining medicine.
Thunder Beast Blood, Blue Electric Plum, and Thunder Velvet Grass had unknowingly turned into pools of medicinal liquid. But one must not think that the power of the three ingredients had weakened within those liquids. Their resistance had actually grown stronger. After all, Hu Haoran had removed their impurities, leaving behind purer energy.
"The next step... will probably be even harder!" Shi Yanxu looked at the medicinal liquid Hu Haoran had spent most of the day purifying and knew it was anything but simple. The energy contained in the three ingredients had originally been formidable, but now it was even more terrifying. Yet Shi Yanxu could also see that the three pools of medicinal liquid no longer seemed as violently berserk as they had at the start.
Hu Haoran removed all three pools of medicinal liquid, placed them in bottles, and sealed them with Soul Power to prevent their medicinal potency from leaking away. He slowly closed his eyes. He intended to complete the next steps in one go, so he had to properly adjust his condition first. The purification process had consumed quite a bit of his Soul Power. Only after restoring himself could he be more confident in refining the Thunder Pill.
The Soul Core within Hu Haoran's body began to pulse, and its intense vibrations rapidly restored his Soul Power.
"Ziyu! Did you see that? Th-that... is a Soul Core!" Shi Yanxu was the first to notice that Hu Haoran possessed a Soul Core. "This