Elder Li gave a low shout. His aura surged around him as he did his utmost to stabilize the vast medicinal power on the verge of erupting within the furnace, guiding it back into calmness.
Elder Zhang Yi's eyes flashed brilliantly. With two fingers held together like a sword, he tapped the furnace lid through the air, executing Danxia Peak's secret Pill Collection Art—Origin Return Induction!
The purple flames beneath the furnace suddenly leaped up, transforming into several lifelike fire pythons that coiled around the pill furnace as they whirled through the air!
"Buzz—!"
Though the furnace lid had yet to open, the rosy light surrounding the furnace suddenly collapsed inward. Blazing rays burst from the vents atop it, illuminating the entire hall so clearly that every detail stood revealed!
An exotic fragrance spread through the air, clearing one's mind at the first breath.
Everyone stared intently at the dark golden pill furnace. Its body shook ever more violently, while the rosy light on its surface flowed like a living thing, emitting a faint, clear hum.
"Open!"
Elder Zhang Yi and Elder Li shouted in unison, both drawing their hands through the air!
"Clang!"
With a clear cry like a phoenix's call, the red copper furnace lid burst open!
In an instant, countless rays of rosy light and streams of auspicious vapor burst forth. Twenty-three dazzling streaks of light shot out from the pill furnace as though drawn by an invisible force.
Elder Li had long been prepared. With a sweep of his sleeve, a huge Cold Jade Plate appeared. He reached out and drew them in, and the twenty-three streaks of light descended one by one into the plate with unerring precision, like young swallows returning to their nest!
The pills lay quietly in the Cold Jade Plate, their