PS: Two chapters combined into one.
No. 13, Southwest Street.
Bai Jing's residence.
The alchemy room in the courtyard had been expanded to twice its original size, and medicinal herbs filled the wooden shelves around it.
In the middle of the room stood two crimson pill furnaces over fire pits.
So-called dual operation was really just dividing one's mind in two, controlling two pill furnaces at once.
The preliminary work for dual operation was relatively simple. Bai Jing believed he had no problem with it.
But the difficult part was controlling the fire.
One person had to operate two Fire Gathering Arrays.
Fire control already demanded meticulous precision, and it was also the key to saving time. From the beginning to the end of pill refinement, it was an extremely important step.
Focusing on one Fire Gathering Array was easy, but monitoring two at once placed extremely high demands on one's concentration and use of spiritual power. The slightest mistake could very likely ruin everything.
Of course, Bai Jing had made his name through arrays. He still had a tiny bit of confidence in this.
Then, let's get to work!
Boom!
Bai Jing ignited the spiritwood in both fire pits at once.
As the blazing flames burned, the clear water in both pill furnaces began to bubble.
Glug glug glug!
The water boiled. Add the herbs!
In truth, this work posed no difficulty at all for him now.
The key was still fire control!
Clang!
Once both furnace lids were shut, Bai Jing took a deep breath.
Whoosh!
His left and right hands moved simultaneously, each firing a streak of azure light into the arrays on the pill furnaces.
Boom!
As the arrays operated, the heat transmitted from the raging fire in the pits could be freely adjusted according to