On Floating Cloud Mountain, within the Fire Vein space, the mountain walls glowed crimson. Magma surged, waves of flame rolled, and scorching heat seared the air, casting white hair, face, and robes alike in fiery red.
Seated cross-legged on a rock formed from accumulated magma, Xuanming focused his gaze, his hands flying through seals. As countless runes and spell formulas merged into the liquid that had once been the Eight Trigrams Furnace, a hundred rays of treasure light fused into one. Its imposing aura vanished, but its radiance grew more profound and inscrutable.
The treasure light merged into the principles of Yin and Yang and the Eight Trigrams, strengthening the liquid's Primordial Unity Dao Daoist Visions. Xuanming controlled the true fire, continuously searing the liquid.
The liquid that had once seemed perfect to him now contained numerous impurities. Beneath the burning Samadhi True Fire, wisps of black smoke rose from it—the filth being purged.
Half a Flame Law swam through the liquid like a darting fish, working with the Samadhi True Fire to refine it.
Several hours later, the liquid had shrunk by more than half, going from the size of an ox to that of a calf. Its profound nature had only grown stronger.
Stroking his beard in satisfaction, Xuanming set the liquid aside for the moment and took the fragments of the Five-Colored Toad Pearl from his Wish-Fulfilling Pouch.
When he had interrogated the Golden Toad Demon King's remnant soul, he had learned that the Five-Colored Toad Pearl was one of the inherited mystic treasures of the Peaceful Heaven Sect's Five Spirit Envoys lineage. It contained the Five-Element Law and used the mutual generation and suppression of the Five Forms to withstand five fatal blows. Its power depended on the wielder's cultivation; generally, it could protect someone against