Xiao Yao sat cross-legged. With a wave of his hand, an enormous crimson medicine cauldron appeared with a boom, landing on the stone platform with a clang.
The crimson medicine cauldron, covered entirely in beast patterns, crashed heavily onto the stone platform. Its immense weight made the platform tremble slightly.
"Which Seventh-Grade Pill should I refine... Forget it. I have to refine them all anyway, so I'll start with the Life-Devouring Pill."
Looking at the medicine cauldron before him, Xiao Yao flicked his finger, sending a wisp of purplish-brown flame instantly sweeping into it before erupting violently.
Blazing fire churned ceaselessly within the medicine cauldron. The steadily rising temperature brought a hint of oppressive heat to the entire square.
When he sensed that the temperature inside the cauldron had reached a certain peak, Xiao Yao willed it, and stalk after stalk of rare medicinal ingredients floated out from his Storage Ring, hovering around him. From afar, they resembled tiny glowing orbs, a rather spectacular sight.
Having refined the Life-Devouring Pill several times before, Xiao Yao smoothly tossed the medicinal ingredients at his side into the medicine cauldron one after another in order. Under the extraction of the churning Purple Flame, they transformed into clusters of crystal-clear liquid...
As time passed, all the medicinal ingredients needed for the Life-Devouring Pill had turned into medicinal liquid, slowly rotating while wrapped in purplish-brown flames.
The medicinal liquids came in many different colors, yet each exuded a dense vitality. Deep within that vitality, however, lurked a trace of imperceptible chilliness—the very characteristic of the Life-Devouring Pill, which devoured power through life.
Xiao Yao's eyes were slightly closed as his vast Soul Force enveloped the medicine cauldron like a fine web, carefully sensing every change in each drop of medicinal liquid.
His fingers moved slightly,