Inside Cold Wind Cave, the sounds were chaotic at first.
Men, women, old, and young—all their voices mixed together, blurred and impossible to distinguish.
Li Chang'an calmed his mind and listened intently.
Gradually.
The voices stopped being vague and grew clearer and clearer, as if they were sounding right beside his ears.
"Save me! Who can save me?"
"No, I haven't taken revenge yet! I can't die here!"
"Why can this world no longer be left? What exactly happened—"
Some wailed for help, some wept hoarsely, and others roared in grief and fury.
Countless voices intertwined, rising and falling one after another, as though they came from the deepest hell.
Li Chang'an did not see any images.
Yet merely through these voices, he could imagine a scene steeped in despair.
Back then, when the Blood Sacrifice Great Formation began operating within the Blood Crystal Secret Realm, the cultivators trapped inside had made such desperate cries.
Suddenly, a piercing shriek cut through the countless clamorous voices and reached Li Chang'an's ears.
"It's an Alchemy Furnace! This world has become an Alchemy Furnace—we're all inside the furnace!"
Hearing this, Li Chang'an's heart stirred, and he recalled the records in Dan Chenzi's Notes.
Refine heaven and earth, refine all living beings!
After that piercing voice appeared, the other voices became terrified.
"What? An Alchemy Furnace?"
"No, no! Are we all going to be refined?"
"Which senior is concocting pills in this world? This junior entered this world unintentionally. I beg Senior to show mercy and spare this junior's life—"
Amid countless panicked voices were a great many pleas for mercy.
Just then.
A familiar sentence sounded beside Li Chang'an's ears.
"Dan Chenzi, when you took me as your disciple all those years ago, was it so you could use me to refine pills