Under normal circumstances, once the Heavenly Tribulation had passed, the Alchemy would be a success.
Rumble!
Heavenly Punishment Divine Lightning poured down from every corner of the sky, engulfing the Heaven Refining Furnace in an instant. The Tribulation Transcendence looked almost identical to when Fang Chen had Refined the Heart Tribulation Pill.
After the Heavenly Tribulation passed, great clouds of white smoke billowed from the Heaven Refining Furnace. It spun rapidly in the sky, growing smaller and smaller.
Fang Chen still had not established a connection with the Heaven Refining Furnace.
"What's going on?"
Fang Chen frowned slightly. He had no idea why the Heaven Refining Furnace was behaving this way.
Before long, the Heaven Refining Furnace had shrunk to thirty zhang across. It stopped shrinking and gave off a dazzling Red Light. Masses of red Vines spread out from within it. Still suspended in midair, the Vines hung from its edges like a spider plant's leaves and grew steadily toward the ground.
Saint Qingyuan and the others fixed their eyes on the Heaven Refining Furnace. Though they had watched Fang Chen Refine the Heart Tribulation Pill before, the sight still left them shaken.
The red Vines grew wildly. Fang Chen noticed that they were much thicker than the Vines from his earlier Refining of the Heart Tribulation Pill, and their leaves were larger too.
Soon, the red Vines stretched more than a hundred zhang. They flowered and bore fruit, but this time, the fruit was not Bean Pods. It was one oval Melon after another, each covered in countless mysterious Runes.
After the time it took an incense stick to burn, the Melons ripened and fell from their stems. Their skins turned black, with mysterious Runes flickering across them. They looked almost exactly like watermelons.
As soon as the