The moment the group turned their heads, they saw a figure ahead of them running as well—it was Hua Yunfei, who had just been solemnly refining pills.
BOOM!!
Before Tao Ran and the others could even think, the medicinal liquid energy inside the Hundred-Demon Furnace swelled like a balloon stretched to its limit, then violently erupted in all directions, indiscriminately destroying everything in its path.
The top of the Pill Tower was violently blown away by the terrifying medicinal liquid energy, shooting into the sky. The frenzied energy seemed to have found an outlet, gushing through the opening at the tower's peak and charging straight into the heavens.
Hua Yunfei had been the first to notice that something was wrong. The moment he tossed several hundred kinds of medicinal ingredients into the Hundred-Demon Furnace, he had already vaguely sensed something amiss.
The reaction produced by the colliding medicinal liquids was clearly vastly different from what was recorded in the Alchemy Notes. He immediately determined that his first attempt at refining a Supreme Realm Immortal Pill had failed, then turned and ran without the slightest hesitation.
Before Tao Ran and the others realized the furnace was about to explode, he had already run up behind them.
Hua Yunfei was fine, but Tao Ran and the others were not so fortunate. They had reacted too slowly. Before they got far, the medicinal liquid energy caught up to them, swept them into the sky, and exploded brilliantly high above.
This commotion was far greater than Tao Ran's previous furnace explosion. The Pill Tower shook violently, arm-thick cracks appearing in many places, and the entire tower even began to tilt.
On the plaza outside the Pill Tower, floor tiles exploded one after another as earth and stone flew everywhere. Even Tao Ran's statue on