Heavenly Battle Mountain was a rare, splendid place, rich in exotic flowers and wondrous herbs. Yi Shuyuan took the opportunity to try his hand at alchemy again.
Unfortunately, refining Immortal Elixirs required more than favorable timing, terrain, and company. Back on Broad South Mountain, Huang Hongchuan, Old Pine, and Yi Shuyuan had pooled their strengths and cross-checked their insights to assemble the foundation for a batch of Vital Essence Pills.
Now, on Heavenly Battle Mountain, where exotic flowers and wondrous herbs grew everywhere, there seemed to be plenty of suitable ingredients, but very few could truly come together in a single batch.
In Yi Shuyuan's calculations, he kept finding that the qi pathways were misaligned-not only those involved in refining the pills, but those within his own body as well.
The damage caused by the End of Heat tribulation had finally revealed itself, and Yi Shuyuan needed to treat the matter with care.
Given that, using the few ingredients left from last time, supplemented with things from Heavenly Battle Mountain, to fire up the furnace again had become quite necessary.
This attempt also took longer than the last.
Yi Shuyuan began refining pills outside Broken Peak Grotto in late autumn. By the time plants across Heavenly Battle Mountain had yellowed and shed their leaves, the batch still was not finished. This already counted as the mountain's deepest winter.
But this was not simply a process of pill refinement. The Alchemy Furnace refining pills was merely its outward aspect. As Yi Shuyuan sat before the Heaven-Turning Furnace, the process of refinement was also a process of healing himself. That was its inner aspect.
Throughout this time, Yi Shuyuan never left the furnace's side. Qi Zhongbin and Hui Mian, meanwhile, wandered all over the mountain and had become quite familiar with both