How Can Pills Be Refined Like This?

Although Jiang Xuan had not refined medicine again after successfully producing his first pill, it did not affect his technique.

The system's guidance was etched deeply into his mind like a recording. As long as he did not deliberately make a mistake, he could refine a Soul-Gathering Pill even with his eyes closed.

As for the medicinal ingredients—

He had taken plenty from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's treasure vault earlier, and they happened to come in handy now.

Thus, Jiang Xuan showed no hesitation. He directly summoned his Eight Trigrams Furnace martial soul and used his first soul skill to enlarge it.

Everyone present was seeing Jiang Xuan refine pills for the first time. Even Chen Xin, hidden in the shadows, had only heard about it before and had never witnessed it himself.

Now, upon seeing Jiang Xuan's actions, Chrysanthemum Pass was the first to ask:

"You actually use a martial soul to refine pills?"

Jiang Xuan, who was preparing the ingredients, could not even be bothered to glance at him.

"What? Who says martial souls can't be used to refine pills?"

Though his tone was highly disrespectful, Chrysanthemum Pass was not displeased.

That was more like it!

As a master with exceptional pill-refining skills, he could understand having a bit of one's own temper.

Though Qian Renxue said nothing, her eyes clearly showed that she was equally curious.

However, not everyone present was interested in Jiang Xuan's upcoming pill refinement.

For example, Xiao Wu, who was still pinned in place and unable to move beneath Chrysanthemum Douluo's powerful soul power.

When the others had suddenly arrived, Xiao Wu had thought a miracle had happened and that she could be saved.

But reality proved that she had been overthinking it.

The newcomers apparently had no intention of saving her. They seemed to want to use her body as well.

Mom had been right. The world outside Star Dou Forest was simply too dangerous. If she managed to escape this time, she would flee straight back into Star Dou Forest, remain within the protection of Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape, and never come out again!

As for the agreement she had previously made with Tang San—

Xiao Wu did not want to care about that anymore.

Setting the facts aside, regardless of the reason, Tang San had ultimately failed to appear in time and protect her when her life was in danger.

In that case, she owed Tang San nothing, seeing as he had broken his promise!

[If the seriously ill Tang San learned of Xiao Wu's thoughts at this moment, he would probably cough up a huge mouthful of blood, worsening his injuries, before sighing:

Why were women so fickle?

Or perhaps he would shout in disbelief:

No! Xiao Wu! My Xiao Wu! Don't leave me!]

Yet Jiang Xuan and Qian Renxue's sudden arrival was not entirely a bad thing for Xiao Wu.

At the very least, she temporarily abandoned her plan to unleash all her strength and fight Chrysanthemum Pass to the death.

Because in her eyes, falling into Chrysanthemum Pass's hands meant certain death. But if she fell into that mysterious young man's hands instead, she might still have a slim chance of survival.

For now, she could only hope that this mysterious young man was a good person. Even if she misplaced her trust, it did not matter. The threat posed by two children could not possibly surpass that of a Title Douluo!

After preparing the ingredients, Jiang Xuan adjusted his breathing, then instantly entered a state free of all distractions and focused entirely on refining pills.

Seeing this, Qian Renxue and Yue Guan tacitly held their breaths, not daring to make a sound and disturb him.

Qian Renxue could only grasp the surface of Jiang Xuan's pill-refining techniques, but Yue Guan truly saw some of their profundity.

"What kind of flame is this? Even I can feel fear from it!"

"What exquisite control over the heat! He actually refined the medicinal power of the Nine-Curve Soul Ginseng perfectly into liquid, and not a trace of its medicinal properties leaked away... Even I would find it difficult to preserve the medicinal properties so completely..."

"What? This kid can actually control the flames while refining multiple medicinal ingredients at once, and his control over the heat remains perfect... Hiss... Why does this technique resemble the Distracting Mind Control Method inherited by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect? Could this kid be from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect?"

Jiang Xuan had never expected that merely displaying his pill-refining methods would result in Yue Guan nearly seeing through everything about him.

He had indeed cultivated the Distracting Mind Control Method passed down by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Moreover, after successfully refining pills for the first time not long ago, he had raised this mental technique to the realm of "Five-Aperture Scattered Mind," allowing his spiritual power to be evenly split into five portions without side effects.

About two minutes later, all the medicinal ingredients had been condensed into liquid essence, and the refinement process reached its final step: pill formation!

Yet at this stage, Yue Guan began to find it difficult to understand.

Being familiar with the properties of herbs, he had often refined pills himself. In his understanding, the final step required carefully merging the various refined medicinal liquids and using soul power to cautiously suppress the violent force produced during their fusion.

The soul power used could not be too strong, nor could it be too weak.

Too much soul power could destroy the medicinal liquid, while too little could fail to suppress its violent medicinal power. Therefore, this final pill-forming step was the most difficult for pill refiners.

No matter how perfectly the earlier steps were completed, the entire effort would be wasted if this final step was even slightly flawed.

Knowing full well how difficult it was, Chrysanthemum Pass unconsciously held his breath. But the next sight completely surpassed his understanding.

In his perception, Jiang Xuan waved his hand and gathered all the medicinal liquids together at once!

What was he doing?

Did he not know that doing this would maximize the violent nature of the medicinal power?

Once he failed to maintain stability, pill-refining failure would be the best possible outcome. Furnace explosions that backlashed against the pill refiner were common occurrences.

"Alas, this kid is too young. He is still too impatient in the end. But judging by his earlier technique, he can be considered a peerless genius. It would be such a pity for him to perish at this age... Forget it. If things go wrong later, I should still intervene in time. Watching such a genius perish without doing anything would be a true sin!"

Chrysanthemum Pass was ninety-nine percent certain that Jiang Xuan's pill refinement would fail.

But he did not know that the Eight Trigrams Furnace contained a world of its own.

If it had been an ordinary pill furnace, Jiang Xuan's method would certainly have failed.

However, within this Eight Trigrams Furnace, its internal Innate Eight Trigrams Formation could perfectly harmonize even the most violent spiritual power. It was impossible for the furnace to explode even if one wanted it to!

Thus, after witnessing the medicinal properties and power within that gathered mass of liquid essence gradually stabilize without showing the slightest sign of losing control, Chrysanthemum Pass was completely dumbfounded.

That was not right, was it?

Were his eyes playing tricks on him?

Was pill refinement done like this?

It could avoid exploding like that?

This kid...

Ah, no!

Just how had this master done it?

Under Chrysanthemum Pass's dumbfounded gaze and Qian Renxue's starry-eyed admiration—

The pill was formed and emerged from the furnace!