The alchemical qi that the Eight-Ape Embracing Furnace could accumulate far surpassed imagination. As time went on, Yin Pingzhi's advantage would only grow larger.
As for Lu Xiaotian's two furnaces, they were much more ordinary. Even to a fourth-grade Pill Sage, they could only be considered mediocre at best. Being able to maintain such an astonishing success rate was already exceptionally difficult, but if the furnaces could not store enough alchemical qi, how much could Lu Xiaotian control through his own strength alone?
Lu Xiaotian could naturally see the situation before him clearly, but he remained completely unmoved. He continued refining pills at his own pace.
Buzz—the furnace lids sprang up, and vast, astonishing alchemical qi gathered around Lu Xiaotian. The first batch had been ruined outright after he expended too much energy struggling against Yin Pingzhi, but no one now dared underestimate Lu Xiaotian in the slightest. His second batch had succeeded. Compared with his pill battle against Yin Hu, it had not been particularly perilous, yielding one mid-grade pill and two low-grade pills as before.
Yet under such an intense clash with Yin Pingzhi, while refining pills in two furnaces simultaneously, being able to complete one batch out of two was still dazzling enough to amaze everyone.
Without the slightest pause, Lu Xiaotian began refining his third and fourth batches. At the same time, thanks to the completed pills and the alchemical qi accumulated during the refining process, the aura around him had begun to rise once more.
Within the Dragon Abyss, the roars and wails of remnant souls and resentful spirits continued to echo one after another, interspersed with the sounds of immortal troops battling the dead-spirit dragon clan.
While refining pills, Lu Xiaotian cast an astonished glance toward the depths of the Dragon Abyss. A relatively