The pale blue-white Brahma Luo True Flame burned several times more fiercely than before. Lu Xiaotian carefully controlled the pill furnace.
"Stop! Take back all the flames!" The moment he caught a whiff of something scorched, Lu Xiaotian hurriedly shouted. Before his words had even faded, Little Fire Crow swept its wings, and all the Brahma Luo True Flame was instantly drawn away. It was several times faster than Lu Xiaotian could manage himself.
The pill furnace immediately sprang open. Lu Xiaotian reached out and grabbed at the air, and three blue-glimmering spirit pills flew into his palm. One was a superior-grade pill, while the other two were inferior-grade. However, the flames had run a little too hot, and one of the inferior pills had already lost most of its medicinal power. It likely had less than a third remaining.
Looking at the two intact "Phantom Pills," Lu Xiaotian was overjoyed, but couldn't help feeling fortunate as well. Luckily, Little Fire Crow had been controlling the Brahma Luo True Flame. If he had been the one to pull back the fire, even a moment too late, all three pills would have been scorched. Having two intact pills left was already a stroke of luck.
"Go play." Lu Xiaotian generously tossed it ten inferior-grade spirit crystals and gave it five blossoms of Brahma Luo True Flame. Little Fire Crow happily accepted them, then fluttered out of the pill room.
It seemed that changing the steps of the pill-refining process had also changed the conditions needed to form the pills. The reason this batch had succeeded was that Little Fire Crow could control the flames with consummate mastery. It wasn't thanks to his own skill. Lu Xiaotian folded his arms and recalled the process of refining the pills. Then it suddenly dawned