Cultivation Soars! (2/3)

Zhou Heng was overjoyed. After promptly paying the twenty thousand high-grade Immortal Stones, he hurriedly sent Liu Qibian away, leaving the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion elder looking utterly depressed. Was he really as unwelcome as a ghost?

He had misunderstood. Zhou Heng was in a rush to refine the Heart of Wood and Frost Spirit Spring Water into a pill!

After seeing Liu Qibian off, Zhou Heng immediately took out the Fire God Furnace. "Furnace, it's up to you now!"

"Sigh, you always make me refine such low-grade pills. You're dragging down my intelligence too!" the Fire God Furnace sighed. "No helping it—who told me to follow a stupid brat like you?"

"Cut the crap and start refining!" Zhou Heng kicked it, and the Fire God Furnace immediately howled. Obediently, it opened its lid and began refining the pill.

One word: cheap. Treat it well, and it got cocky instead.

Still, the Fire God Furnace's skill in pill refinement truly was first-rate. In barely five minutes, it had refined the pill—only one of them, jade-green throughout and giving off a fragrant scent that was at once bitter and sweet.

Zhou Heng flashed away, taking the Fire God Furnace and the pill into the Immortal Residence. Within three days, he had to raise his cultivation as much as possible and seize his fate in his own hands.

—Though he still had Huotian and the Blue Dragon Empress as two trump cards, as a man with an extremely strong sense of pride, he did not want to seek others' help whenever he encountered danger—especially not the help of his own women.

"Zhou Heng, the True Dragon Blood has completely melted!" Hu Mei ran over and said in a hushed voice. This drop of True Dragon Blood had come from the Blue Dragon Empress;