While Moonlight Civilization was still fretting anxiously over its future fate,
Dao Ancestor Hongjun had already finished refining the third batch of Jade pills with crisp efficiency.
Having previously refined two batches of finished pills, Hongjun was naturally familiar with the process this third time. Dao Rhyme flowed around his fingertips, and he controlled the furnace heat without the slightest error. Even the origin Dao qi lingering along the inner walls of the alchemy furnace was precisely drawn forth by him. There was not half a hitch throughout the process, fully displaying the supreme methods of a Hunyuan Dao Ancestor.
Once the refinement was complete, Hongjun calmly looked at the alchemy furnace before him. Several smooth, lustrous Jade pills floated within, their surfaces wreathed in layer upon layer of Great Dao Rules ripples. Every ripple contained obscure and profound truths of time-space and dimensions. Even from afar, one could sense the boundless Power of Rules within them; they were by no means comparable to ordinary Immortal Pills.
He then lightly swept his Daoist robe sleeve forward. A gentle yet irresistible force of the Dao surged forth, and more than half the Jade pills in the furnace instantly rose into the air before being stored inside a crimson gourd covered in innate Dao patterns.
This red gourd was an innate spirit treasure containing an independent pocket space. It could both seal in the spiritual qi of pills and block the prying of external rules. It was a supreme treasure Hongjun specifically used to store top-grade pills.
After putting away most of the Jade pills, Hongjun softly called out and summoned his grand-disciple Duan Ning before him.
Duan Ning hurriedly bowed in salute, her expression incomparably respectful. She did not dare show the slightest negligence as she quietly awaited the Dao Ancestor's