An exploding furnace, as the name implied, meant the pill furnace had exploded—a sign of failed refinement. Once it blew apart, all the medicinal ingredients and effort would go down the drain, resulting in total failure.
Pill King Guan Xiu could never have imagined that Sect Master Nie Yun, despite possessing Golden Flame Pill Fire and making no mistakes in tempering the medicinal properties, would trigger the most terrifying outcome for any pill refiner the moment the ingredients entered the furnace: an exploding furnace!
"It isn't an exploding furnace, it's... the Explosive Furnace Alchemy Method... I've only been researching this method; it hasn't even taken shape yet. How has the Sect Master already used it?"
Compared to Pill King Guan Xiu's panic, Pill Emperor Zhuge Qingyun had sharper eyes, and his expression shifted unpredictably.
Though the furnace before them shook and roiled, looking exactly like it was about to explode, he knew it was not.
He had recently been studying how to accelerate pill refinement, how to better fuse the medicinal properties of many ingredients together perfectly, and how to improve pill quality. This Explosive Furnace Alchemy Method was the most crucial part of it.
By using a method similar to an exploding furnace to blast apart the various medicinal properties, allowing incompatible properties to fuse perfectly and speeding up pill refinement—this had only been a theory, an idea in his mind. It had never been realized.
When refining pills, what one feared most was the medicinal ingredients boiling. Once that happened, an exploding furnace was not far off. Pills possessed tremendous explosive power. Never mind Heaven-grade or Dao-grade pills—even Emperor-grade pills, once successfully refined, were comparable to Void Absorption Realm experts. One only had to think about how powerful the self-destruction of a Void Absorption Realm expert was to