Xiao Heng sat down cross-legged and adjusted his breathing. After a while, he suddenly opened his eyes, a sharp glint flashing through them.
Energy surged within him as blazing flames poured forth, forming an enormous fiery furnace in the space before him in the blink of an eye.
He did not use a Medicine Cauldron because it was too small to hold the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan's massive corpse.
Taking out the coffin, Xiao Heng tossed it directly into the furnace. The coffin melted instantly, and the thousand-zhang Heaven Demon Phoenix corpse abruptly appeared within the furnace.
Under the blazing flames, the corpse rapidly withered. Too much time had passed, and most of the energy within it had already dissipated. With the intensity of the flames Xiao Heng now controlled, refining it was not difficult.
The corpse withered, and its impurities were burned to ash, while its essence remained. As time passed, all the impurities were stripped away by the flames, leaving behind only the purest energy—the energy of an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix.
The energy condensed into liquid, then gradually took the form of a smooth, fist-sized bead under Xiao Heng's control.
In truth, refining it to this stage would have been enough. Yet after some thought, Xiao Heng took out the thumb-sized Phoenix Dragon Crystal and tossed it into the fiery furnace as well.
The flames burned fiercely. This Phoenix Dragon Crystal was clearly much harder to refine than the corpse from before.
In the end, Xiao Heng still succeeded, merging the energy of dragon and phoenix into this "Phoenix Bead."
However, according to Xiao Heng's estimate, the entire process had taken more than a month. That was over twice as long as refining the "Snake Bead," but the quality of this Phoenix Bead was likely more than twice