The Daoists busied themselves, unaware of death's gaze

There was no fire at the Xun position inside the pill furnace, but that did not mean it was cool.

A pill furnace was a smelting furnace, after all. It could melt even a corpse. How could it not be hot?

Yet as the Daoist woman hid there, that eye made her feel no heat. Instead, a chill pierced her to the bone.

Then Duan Yun's voice rang out. "You're short on fire over there. Let me add some."

His fist, as big as a sandbag, slammed forward. Terrifying Chivalric Fire roared into the furnace and bloomed into Fire Lotuses.

The Fire Lotuses burst like explosions, setting the furnace flames ablaze. Xun position or not, the whole furnace became a sea of fire.

Under Duan Yun's gaze, the Daoist woman's clothes burned away in an instant. Her body followed.

She could barely have endured the furnace's pill fire. She had spent day and night beside it, after all. But Chivalric Fire was different.

Duan Yun believed, I am the sun. And his Chivalric Fire was like the sun, capable of burning through anything.

The Daoist woman became a human torch and crashed around the furnace a few times. Then only a pile of bones remained.

But driven by the Chivalric Fire inside, the flames grew fiercer and fiercer, more and more explosive.

Rumble!

The enormous pill furnace shook without stopping. The ground trembled, and a pillar of fire shot skyward as though it meant to punch a hole through the heavens.

The commotion was far greater than usual. Even the Daoists who normally kept their heads down and minded only their own work were startled into running out to watch.

Duan Yun and Shen Ying had no choice but to get out of its way.

Suddenly, both dropped flat.

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