Creation Furnace

Medicine Venerable Red Flame smiled faintly at the sight, then turned to the alchemy furnace and said to the four Alchemy Cauldron Sect elders behind him, whose auras were likewise formidable, "Junior brothers, follow the plan. Set up the Five Elements Medicine Spirit Barrier-Breaking Array. We'll take the 'Gate of Life' the Medicine God left for later generations."

"Yes, Senior Brother!"

The four elders answered in unison. Taking their positions, they drew out array flags and magical artifacts and began setting up the formation.

They had clearly come prepared and had studied the restrictions here in considerable depth.

Chu Ming watched coldly from the sidelines while silently using the Order Fireseed's perception to probe the web of restrictions throughout the basin.

In his "vision," those seemingly chaotic restrictions actually followed a certain inner "order."

They were not purely destructive traps, but more like an intricate mechanism of "trials" or "selection," centered around principles such as "medicinal balance," "the transformation of life and death," and "the harmonization of energy."

These restrictions are essentially testing an intruder's understanding of 'creation' and 'the principles of alchemy.' Chu Ming came to a realization.

Brute-forcing one's way through would indeed mean near-certain death unless one's strength vastly surpassed that of the formation's creator.

But if one could understand its inner order and find the "gaps" and "nodes" in the flow of its laws, one could pass through safely.

As he observed the Alchemy Cauldron Sect members setting up their formation, he realized that they were constructing a temporary "safe passage" that simulated a specific cycle of medicinal properties, using it to deceive or assimilate part of the restrictions and thereby approach the alchemy furnace.

The method was opportunistic, but effective.

"Fellow Daoist Chu, how do we get in?" Qingwei asked through voice transmission. She too