Xiao Yan naturally had no idea what Huo Zhi was thinking. He was also deeply wary of the pitch-black tree shadow and kept Huo Zhi's warning firmly in mind.
The Eight Wastelands Star Lotus Flame and the Nihility Devouring Flame's Child Flame obeyed Xiao Yan's command and charged at the many tentacles of the pitch-black tree shadow. Although the shadow had been continuously absorbing human blood qi, the pure qi refined from the Bodhi Seeds could weaken it as well. With one side rising and the other falling, it had not grown much stronger.
However, its rate of absorbing blood qi was still faster than the refining speed. By Xiao Yan's estimate, the pitch-black tree shadow would certainly absorb all the blood qi before the more than twenty Bodhi Seeds had all been refined.
Judging by how much the Bodhi Seeds wore away the black qi, refining all of them should be enough to make the pitch-black tree shadow vanish. What mattered now was the speed of each side.
Xiao Yan steadily and calmly dealt with the tentacles of the pitch-black tree shadow one by one, but Hun Feng was beginning to struggle on the other side. She had never specifically studied alchemy before, but her talent was high enough and her strength great enough that refining ordinary medicinal herbs was naturally no difficult task for her. Thus, Hun Feng had not taken the matter seriously at first. If Xiao Yan could do it, then with the advantage of her Dou Qi, she might even be faster and more enduring.
Yet faced with this Bodhi Seed, no matter how she urged the Nihility Devouring Flame's Child Flame, she simply could not increase the pace. Though it appeared to be such a tiny bead, the Nihility Devouring Flame seemed unable to