The Myriad Void Wondrously Nonexistent Emperor (Seeking Subscriptions! Seeking Monthly Votes!)
The world had fallen into an unusual state of peace.
Only, every day, tribal states either joined the Bear Clan or the Nine Li.
Or they left the Nine Li to join the Bear Clan, or left the Bear Clan to join the Nine Li.
Yet overall, the tribes belonging to the Blazing Mountain Clan were dwindling by the day.
Shennong City, however, remained as peaceful as ever.
Here, both shamans and Qi refiners were present, without the drawn-sword tension of the outside world.
The occasional conflict between shamans and Qi refiners would also return to peace under the Blazing Mountain Clan's mediation.
Ling Qing thus refined pills here in peace, hoping to sever and transform his alchemy Dao incarnation as soon as possible.
Within the Yin-Yang Furnace was a pill, glowing like red gold and radiating a perfectly harmonious aura.
Like the eyes of a yin-yang fish, it circulated and rose and fell between the two pill chambers.
After several months of painstaking refinement, his Nine-Turn Golden Elixir Dao Foundation—using his Primordial Spirit as the pill head and ten thousand pills as the catalyst—had begun to bear fruit.
Now, the first turn was about to reach completion.
At Ling Qing's current realm, ordinary pills could be refined in merely a day, or even the time it took to burn an incense stick.
Several months were enough for him to refine over a thousand furnaces' worth.
With a gesture of his hand seal, Ling Qing opened the Yin-Yang Furnace and tossed in medicinal ingredients one by one, chiefly ginseng, earth ganoderma, and heavenly spirit fruit.
With a soft clack, the furnace lid fell shut, while the hand seals in Ling Qing's hands changed without pause.
The various materials within the furnace continuously rolled and shattered. Once each had been properly