Deep within the Horizontal Cloud Mountains, a Grotto-Heaven rested beneath a crimson-flame volcano.
Inside the Grotto-Heaven, Ye Qingyan operated a sixth-stage pill furnace while Vermilion Luan released flames beside him. A Three-Eyed Demon Roc and a Black Crow were also waiting nearby.
Compared with Ye Jingcheng's Crimson Flame Fox, Vermilion Luan fell far short in the precision required for alchemy and flame control.
To prevent any mistakes, Ye Qingyan not only had Vermilion Luan control the flames, but also kept the late-fifth-stage Black Crow and Three-Eyed Demon Roc ready to assist.
At last, pill fragrance wafted out, instantly filling the entire alchemy chamber. Ye Qingyan could not help rejoicing.
The next moment, the furnace lid rose, revealing a gleaming golden Primordial Spirit Pill.
"It finally worked!" Ye Qingyan let out a long breath, carefully put away the spirit pill, then wiped down the furnace and gave Vermilion Luan and the two spirit avians spirit pills to help them recover.
This was not his first attempt at refining a Primordial Spirit Pill. He had already failed once before, wasting a batch of ingredients—a loss that had made his heart ache for over twenty years.
By now, Ye Xuecang was even telling them all that he would never use another Primordial Spirit Pill.
He was afraid he would fail his breakthrough again.
And waste another Primordial Spirit Pill.
Normally, a Primordial Spirit Pill increased a Nascent Soul Cultivator's chances of breaking through to spirit transformation by roughly thirty percent.
With the Ye Family's Beast Communion enhancement, along with Illusory Dream Valley's improvements to comprehension and resistance to illusions and inner demons, the increase could normally reach forty percent.
Even without using anything, a cultivator at the nascent soul peak generally had a ten to twenty percent chance of breaking through to spirit