The medicinal power of the two deteriorating pills continued to fade. Then, all at once, they exploded, unleashing a tremendous shockwave that sent the furnace lid flying. The pill spirit, attached to the Dragonblood Reverse-Vein Pill that had surpassed the supreme grade, shot through the air and fled.
"A fourth-tier pill spirit!" Wen Tingdao and Muye Daofeng exclaimed in unison. There was nothing else in the furnace now; only this pill, which had surpassed the supreme grade, had been refined. Yet even a single pill like this was far beyond any supreme-grade pill in its effects. What this pill represented was far more precious than even the fact that five-clawed golden dragon Wen Yan had taken it.
Wen Yan was still absorbing the pill aura left in the void to replenish what her body had lost. In particular, after the aura of this pill spirit fused with the blood energy in Lu Xiaotian's body, Wen Yan had not only recovered what she had expended, but her pure blood energy had become far more abundant than usual.
Having previously refined a supreme-grade pill spirit, Lu Xiaotian was already prepared for the pill spirit's attempt to escape.
Lu Xiaotian raised a hand and summoned several dozen beams of light from the sky. Together, they blocked the pill spirit's attempt to flee. The pill spirit quickly darted off in another direction, leaving a trail of brilliant golden light in its wake.
The beams of light Lu Xiaotian had sent out gradually expanded, forming a curtain of light. Each time the pill spirit struck it, the curtain bounced it back with a soft rebound. The pill spirit had already developed a degree of intelligence. It realized that repeated impacts weakened the curtain, so it kept striking the same spot. After several more collisions, it