A young man sat atop a massive boulder in the valley.
An ancient Medicine Cauldron floated quietly in the air before him, its body covered in profound patterns that seemed to contain the great Dao of heaven and earth.
Mist rose from its mouth, while strands of Chaos Qi coiled around it, an extraordinary sight.
"Senior Skyfire, I'll have to trouble you to stand guard for me again. The disturbance this time will be quite significant."
"Just focus on refining your pill. With this old man here, no one will be allowed to disturb you."
"Once I refine the Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melding Pill, I'll begin crafting a body for you."
As soon as he spoke, Xiao Yao focused on the Chaos Cauldron before him. With a thought, medicinal ingredients rose into the air one after another, radiating all manner of strange light.
With a gentle beckon of his hand, a section of emerald-green withered vine flew out from a Jade Box and hovered before the Medicine Cauldron.
"Evergreen Spirit Vine..." Xiao Yao murmured softly. When he recalled how thrilled he had been upon obtaining this ingredient, he had felt that acquiring a single Seventh-Grade Medicinal Material was an immense stroke of luck and fortune.
But now, whether Seventh Grade or Eighth-Grade Medicinal Materials, neither was rare to him anymore.
Since obtaining the Spirit Medicinal Field and accumulating resources over this period, the medicinal ingredients in his Storage Ring had long piled up like mountains. Those high-grade ingredients he had once treasured were now merely another raw material for his pill furnace.
"Phew—"
Xiao Yao took a deep breath and suppressed all distracting thoughts. With a slight lift of his fingertip, a strand of Chaos Flame wrapped around the emerald-green withered vine and carried it into the Chaos Cauldron.
"The Chaos Flame