Two hours after the three slaves left.
Li Xuan sat cross-legged on the grass, his eyes fixed tightly on the copper pot before him, which had already been heated red-hot. He continuously poured the flames within his body into the pot, but the pot was in poor condition. After being scorched by the blazing flames for so long, it was already on the verge of melting.
This time, Li Xuan was refining Fasting Pills. A Fasting Pill required eight medicinal herbs and four kinds of grain to be purified. Since there were more ingredients to refine, it took longer than refining Spirit-Nurturing Pills, and the copper pot was beginning to struggle under the high temperatures of the Burning Heart Clarifying Spirit Flame.
Li Xuan watched the copper pot nervously. If it sprang a leak and the flame temperature went out of control, the furnace would explode!
If a copper pot the size of a washbasin exploded, Li Xuan would be in serious trouble.
"Damn it, I really can't make do with this! This copper pot simply isn't suitable for refining elixirs! Once I finish this batch, I'm throwing it away. It's way too dangerous!" Li Xuan gritted his teeth and desperately poured in Soul Power, stabilizing the flaming lotus inside the copper pot and trying to finish refining the elixir before the pot gave out.
The elixir was already at its final stage. In just a few more minutes, once the medicinal properties had been properly sorted out, the pills could be formed. Li Xuan was reluctant to give up this batch, so he risked the furnace exploding and decided to gamble.
But this time, the Lucky Four-Leaf Clover buff had no expiration date, and something still went wrong.
Just as the pills were about to form, a thin crack