Time flowed on.
In the blink of an eye, another three months passed.
That day, the stone door that had remained shut for so long suddenly opened.
A light, graceful figure swept before Song Wen like a breeze.
"Gou Jun, it's done!" Ye Bing was clearly overjoyed and excited, but she was accustomed to keeping her emotions restrained. Thus, only a faint smile touched her face.
She held a jade vial in her hand and offered it to Song Wen.
Song Wen's expression froze slightly. He accepted the jade vial and peered inside.
At the bottom of the vial lay a thumb-sized pill, rolling along the edge of the bottom as the vial shifted.
The pill was round and full, its surface suffused with a faint, misty spiritual radiance. Its color was particularly unusual, a deep ocean blue. It was exactly as depicted in the formula for the Void-Merging Origin-Breaking Pill.
"Fairy, you are indeed remarkably gifted. You succeeded in condensing the pill on merely your second attempt. Truly admirable!" Song Wen said sincerely.
"You flatter me, Fellow Daoist. The fact that this pill was refined so smoothly was partly thanks to you as well." Ye Bing's expression remained calm, but a trace of pride could not help surfacing in her eyes.
Song Wen examined the jade vial in his hand and softly asked,
"Fairy, when do you plan to begin refining pills again?"
Ye Bing said, "I have opened the furnace twice in succession, and my spiritual power has been greatly depleted. I intend to meditate briefly to recover it, and also reflect upon the gains and losses from this refinement. Perhaps... I will not refine pills again until half a year later?"
"Half a year later?" Song Wen murmured, then continued, "What the Fairy says is reasonable. Pill