Wu Bai flew up first to test it. Finding it suitable, he nodded to the Vice Dean.
Hu Gan breathed a sigh of relief and handed his three sets of medicinal herbs to Wu Bai. Brimming with excitement, he flew aside to stand guard over him.
Wu Bai closed his eyes for a few minutes, bringing himself into peak condition.
Clang~
The Medicine Cauldron landed on the seemingly flimsy stone slab. At a thought from Wu Bai, a blue-and-white Flood Dragon shot from his hand, swelling in the wind before plunging headfirst into the deep-blue Vast Sea Cauldron.
Once the temperature inside the Medicine Cauldron was about right, Wu Bai took out the cold marrow branch and tossed it inside.
Then Wu Bai rapidly shifted through a series of hand seals, and a dragon's roar suddenly rang out over the Inner Academy.
A Flood Dragon several dozen feet long coiled around the Medicine Cauldron. Searing breath poured from its jaws, warping the surrounding air beyond recognition.
Staring at that space where the temperature had soared, Hu Gan was somewhat dumbfounded, but understanding soon dawned on him. No wonder the brat had asked him to find somewhere spacious. So this was what he had planned.
With that dragon's roar, every Inner Academy student who had not entered the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower noticed the commotion. Quite a few curious souls gathered in groups and came over.
"Is something on fire?"
"The Vice Dean's here, so it probably isn't a fire, right?"
"Obviously. Someone's refining pills, but I wonder which elder it is?"
"..."
A crowd approached, chattering away as they looked up curiously and craned their necks, trying to see just what was happening above.
Hu Gan shot the students a look, and they immediately fell silent.
"If you want