Difficult Predicament

When Ling Haonan's gaze refocused on the Pill Tower Ancestor, an aura of bloodlust more powerful than ever before suddenly erupted from his body!

His already withered frame grew even more gaunt at a visible rate under the extreme force of "Blood Burning." His skin clung tightly to his bones, giving him the gray, decaying appearance of a man at death's door.

"Refine!" Ling Haonan poured all his strength into the rune formation. Roaring flames burst forth. They were not flames of the Heavenly Spiritual Flame's fifth-grade level, but they were one of the measures Ling Haonan had long ago arranged within the rune formation.

The blood-red energy containing the essence of Ling Haonan's final life force acted like the fiercest catalyst the instant it entered the core of the formation.

Boom!

The Dou Qi accumulated within the formation for so long was suddenly ignited. It was no longer merely an energy prison, but transformed into a true "alchemy furnace." Thick Dou Qi flames, like liquid gold, surged skyward. In an instant, their temperature soared to a level capable of incinerating space itself. This was not flame in the conventional sense; it was annihilative energy produced by pure Dou Qi under the special catalysis of the rune formation. Against the Pill Tower Ancestor, who was formed from pure medicinal power fused with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, it possessed lethal corrosive and refining power.

The core region of the entire rune formation instantly became a true inferno! As flames continued pouring in, terrifying heat swirled within the mother formation of the child-mother formation.

The Pill Tower Ancestor naturally had no intention of allowing others to refine him just like that. Light gathered once more around the jade flute in his hand, but six streams of energy suddenly forced