Early the next morning, as daylight first broke, Zhao Ming left Heaven Dou City alone and headed for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes deep within Sunset Forest.
Zhao Ming passed through the layers of poisonous miasma with practiced ease and reached the valley floor. His gaze swept over the precious immortal herbs, but he did not pick any.
His targets today were not the immortal herbs, but the ordinary medicinal plants that seemed unremarkable beneath their dazzling halo, yet were still immensely valuable.
These medicinal plants might have been impossible to obtain even for a fortune outside, but here at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes, they grew everywhere like weeds.
Zhao Ming began gathering them methodically, carefully harvesting one medicinal plant after another.
Once he had finished, Zhao Ming found a flat patch of ground beside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes and sat cross-legged. With a turn of his right hand, a pill furnace appeared before him.
Zhao Ming formed hand seals, and yin-yang pill flame rose from his palms, becoming two fire dragons that circled the furnace, each one's head meeting the other's tail.
The furnace soon glowed red-hot, sending a scorching wave of heat spreading outward.
He opened the jade box and took out the piece of whale rubber from the hundred-thousand-year Light Dragon Whale.
Zhao Ming then divided the whale rubber in two and tossed one half into the furnace.
The instant the whale rubber entered, a dazzling white light erupted inside the furnace. The Light Dragon Whale's light power lingering within the whale rubber had collided violently with the pill fire.
Zhao Ming formed hand seals faster and faster. Under his precise control, the yin-yang pill flame gradually refined away the impurities in the whale rubber, leaving only the purest