Seeing Gu He return, Qing stepped forward two paces and asked, "How did it go?"
"Here, it went smoothly. Now it depends on how you refine it." Gu He showed him the flaming little snake in his right hand and smiled.
"You have experience. I'll listen to you, so tell me what I should do next!" Qing nodded and said to Gu He.
Gu He took out a blue pill and handed it to Qing. "First, take this Earth Spirit Pill. It will transform into a massive amount of Water Attribute energy inside your body, helping you suppress the Heavenly Flames' energy while protecting you from their burning."
The blue pill was precisely the Earth Spirit Pill he had refined. Its effects were somewhat better than the one Han Feng had refined.
Qing accepted it without hesitation, sat cross-legged, and swallowed it. A flash of blue light immediately swept across the surface of his body, and even the surrounding air seemed to grow moist.
Gu He could sense that the pill inside Qing's body had transformed into a mass of blue liquid containing immense Water Attribute energy. The blue liquid flowed and turned into pale blue vapor, circulating throughout Qing's body and wrapping his entire body in blue light. His meridians, flesh, bones, and other organs were all enveloped in a layer of blue light, protecting those fragile structures from the flames' damage.
Gu He then took out a blood-colored pill and handed it to Qing. "This is a Blood Lotus Pill. It can form a blood scab inside your body and protect you from the Heavenly Flames."
Qing accepted it as instructed and swallowed the blood-colored pill as well.
As Qing swallowed the Blood Lotus Pill, thin strands of blood suddenly began seeping continuously from his pores, until his