Surging true essence gathered.
Under its pressure, the spreading yang fire gradually shrank.
A long while passed.
The yang fire had been compressed into a dark red lotus pedestal.
Above the pedestal floated
the partially broken-down tier-six ores.
By now,
Qin Shujian's expression had finally grown grave. His true essence constantly sustained the lotus pedestal as he slowly forced the impurities from the ores.
The yang fire had now been compressed to its limit.
He could clearly sense the violent power contained within it.
Without his true essence sustaining it,
once the lotus pedestal exploded,
Qin Shujian suspected that everything here might be razed to the ground.
The changes in Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy,
along with the rising, spreading heat,
finally drew the attention of others.
"What happened?"
Niu Feng traced the source of the heat, finally stopping outside the courtyard.
As the Mountain-Guarding Elder,
he paid particular attention to everything that happened within Liangshan.
Now that Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy was being drawn away,
and a powerful, scorching aura was spreading, Niu Feng had no choice but to investigate.
Standing before the courtyard, he could clearly sense a terrifying aura brewing inside, as though it would swallow him whole the moment it erupted.
"What divine technique is the Sect Master cultivating now?"
Without permission, Niu Feng dared not barge inside.
Then,
Niu Feng stepped aside and sat cross-legged on a large rock rather than leaving.
Since the Sect Master was cultivating a divine technique inside,
and he had happened upon it, he would naturally stand guard for him.
Inside the courtyard,
Qin Shujian continued to control his true essence, stabilizing the yang fire lotus pedestal and further refining the ores.
The lotus fire burned.
The impurities separated.
Time passed little by little.
The surrounding temperature gradually rose