It was an immense, magnificent hall.
The moment Qin Hao and the Cloudwing Beast entered, a wave of heat struck them. Looking up, they saw a massive cauldron standing in the very center of Ling Yuan Hall.
Roar! Roar!
Raging Flames burned beneath the cauldron, while a wonderfully fragrant aroma drifted from within it.
Pill refining!
A cauldron like that was clearly the kind of Pill Furnace an alchemist used.
Qin Hao knew little about pill refining, having only read a little about it in books. Alchemists generally placed medicinal ingredients inside a Pill Furnace, then used different Flames depending on the ingredients and the grade of pill being refined.
Those flames were usually divided into open flame, earthfire, and heavenly fire!
There were many finer distinctions, of course, but Qin Hao knew little about them.
And here in Ling Yuan Hall, someone was unmistakably refining pills.
A man sat cross-legged directly before the Pill Furnace, his back to Qin Hao, dressed in a long blue-green robe.
He held both hands out toward the Pill Furnace, pouring a steady stream of powerful True Essence into it. The Flames beneath it swelled and shrank under his exquisitely precise control.
Qin Hao could barely make out the man's profile.
It was strikingly handsome. He looked only thirty or so, but for a Venerable, appearance was no measure of age.
Venerable Hun Yan had lived for at least several decades, yet he still looked in his twenties, not even thirty.
Such was the power of profound cultivation: one could already control one's appearance at will.
There was no need to guess. The man sitting cross-legged before them, refining pills, was True Person Ling Yuan!
A master of the Pill Dao!
Qin Hao and the Cloudwing Beast held their breath, not daring to make