After leaving the Golden Ancient Tree, Yin Hongye and his group retraced their path, climbed out of the tunnel, and returned to the edge of the Star Dou Forest.
The mist from the Lake of Life and the fragrance of vegetation gradually faded behind them, while the lights of Star Dou Fortress reappeared before them.
"We're finally back!" Na'er stretched lazily and said excitedly.
"Let's go. Back to Mingdu," Yin Hongye said as he boarded his mecha again. Once airborne, the Star Dou Forest shrank into a small patch of green below. From the sky, the forest looked pitifully small compared to what it had been twenty thousand years ago, or even ten thousand years ago.
Qian Renxue looked out the window without the slightest reaction. Her gaze settled on the distant Golden Ancient Tree, and she suddenly asked, "When will that thing explode?"
"No rush. The time hasn't come yet." Yin Hongye was not surprised by this. "When the time comes, we'll have to ambush some people too."
Naturally, he meant the Ghost Emperor. When the time came, he would blow him up a few more times.
Several days later, Mingdu.
The furnace in Yin Hongye's private laboratory burned brightly. Before him lay medicinal ingredients of every kind, looted from the Tang Sect, Shrek, and elsewhere, along with the pill formula he had taken from the Tang Sect.
He had already thoroughly understood the formula for the Universe Creation Pill and was now checking the ingredients one by one.
"This one! This one! Then add this!" he muttered as he tossed the ingredients into the level-nine pill furnace in sequence. Red Lotus Karmic Fire burned steadily beneath the furnace, its temperature controlled with extreme precision.
The only pity was that the Vajra Bracelet still could not refine pills automatically.