When Yunxi picked up that Yangyuan Pill, Dian Dian poked its head out and twitched its nose. Yet it did not catch the foul aura of evil cultivators, so it withdrew back into the Spirit Beast Bag and said to Lili:
"Brother Lili, I couldn't smell that nasty evil cultivator aura. It was most likely masked by the pill's medicinal fragrance. See if you can find anything unusual."
Lili nodded, then poked his head out. His black grape-like eyes stared intently at the pill, but he too could not spot anything unusual. Not until Yunxi began scorching the pill with Exotic Flame did a golden glint flash through Lili's eyes. He leaped straight out of the Spirit Beast Bag and transmitted to Yunxi:
"Venerable, there is something foreign inside the pill."
In truth, Yunxi had discovered it even without Lili's reminder. The moment she began scorching the pill with Exotic Flame, her divine sense had tightly encircled it. She did not even overlook the smoke released as the pill burned. Very soon, she discovered a black speck, no larger than a sesame seed, hidden within the pill.
At this time, having received its mistress's command, Ziyan did not burn away the black speck. Instead, it separated it from the pill and slowly drifted it toward Yunxi.
Yunxi held the sesame-sized speck in her palm, which was covered in Exotic Flame, and studied it. This did not resemble an impurity in a pill. Moreover, this was a top-grade Yangyuan Pill. During refinement, ninety-nine percent of the impurities would have been removed. The tiny trace remaining would not affect the pill's efficacy, nor would it accumulate within a cultivator's body. The appearance of this thing was simply far too abrupt.
Yunxi pushed the sesame-sized speck toward Feng Yan and said:
"Fellow Daoist