Inside the stone chamber, the walls of the Chixiao Cauldron had already been heated red-hot.
Lu Heng sat cross-legged before the cauldron, his hands constantly forming seals as five-colored Dou Qi flowed from his fingertips and precisely poured into the cauldron.
The first batch was Fifth-Rank Blood Lotus Pills.
These were the auxiliary pills Xiao Yan had specially refined in the original story for devouring a Heavenly Flame.
The Blood Lotus Pill protected the meridians from being scorched during the devouring process while stabilizing the circulation of Dou Qi within the body.
To Medusa, this pill held even greater significance.
Her constitution leaned toward yin and cold, while the Green Lotus Core Flame was a pure yang, supremely fierce Heavenly Flame.
The two attributes clashed, and the most likely problem during the devouring process would be her meridians suffering backlash from the Heavenly Flame.
The Blood Lotus Pill could form a protective membrane over the meridians, enough to withstand the initial impact at the very least.
Refining a Fifth-Rank Pill was no great challenge to the current Lu Heng.
Two hours later, the cauldron lid shook, and three round, dark-red pills rolled out.
Their quality was quite good. All three had reached the peak of the Fifth-Rank.
Lu Heng stored the pills away. Without resting, he immediately cleaned the residue from the inner walls of the cauldron and began preparing the second batch.
A Seventh-Grade Ice Spirit Pill.
He had specifically selected this pill from the Pharmacopoeia of Ten Thousand Worlds for Medusa's situation.
The Ice Spirit Pill's core effect was to create an extremely cold domain within the body, pushing the user's cold-yin constitution to its limit.
It sounded like it would only make things worse, but the truth was precisely the opposite.
When Medusa devoured the Heavenly Flame,