As Qin Fengming refined the pill, the pill-refining Spirit Patterns he drove continued to merge into the pill furnace, and the furnace before his eyes slowly turned illusory. No, not illusory—rather, it seemed to become part of his body, as if the pill furnace had completely fused with him. Every change within it, he could sense as clearly as he sensed his own flesh.
It was a state Qin Fengming had never perceived before in all his pill refining. Even the tiniest change within the pill furnace, he could sense at the very first instant.
It was as if the pill furnace had gained flesh and blood, gained nerves to transmit sensation, and was completely connected to him.
What kind of feeling that was, what kind of situation it was, Qin Fengming did not know, because this was the first time he had ever felt it, the first time he had ever experienced it.
Slowly, Qin Fengming felt a vast mass of rippling light suddenly surge up ahead, like an ocean billowing.
In an instant, he was swallowed by that wave-light.
Before Qin Fengming could react, he abruptly discovered that his surroundings were being enveloped by a mass of soul energy, and in the void before him stood a towering figure that propped up Heaven and Earth.
Though that figure was hazy, Qin Fengming still saw its features at once. They seemed familiar.
In that instant, Qin Fengming's mind roared, and he recognized whose figure it was: it was none other than the Pill Emperor Statue standing in the plaza.
What was going on? He felt a little muddled. He remembered clearly that he had been refining pills, so how had he suddenly drifted off and found himself facing the Pill Emperor Statue?
"Ah, what is that?"
Suddenly, Qin Fengming's