Refining pills with a furnace within a furnace might not be something no one would ever surpass, but it was certainly something no one had done before.
At least, the texts and fragments Yi Shuyuan had read in the Divine Medicine Palace's Pill Scripture Pavilion mentioned that the ancient branches of cauldron alchemy had entertained similar ideas, but never tried them.
This was not because the method was unnecessarily elaborate. Refining a true Immortal Elixir was difficult enough already, and the process did not always proceed smoothly. It could very well draw a heavenly tribulation.
And refining pills in a furnace within a furnace, completing both the furnace and the pills, would all but guarantee a tribulation-and an exceptionally dangerous one at that, certainly worse than a normal heavenly tribulation. One misstep could destroy both furnaces and bring disaster upon the alchemist.
At this moment, Yi Shuyuan had to offer the ancient Immortal Cultivators a thumbs-up through the void. I've tested your deductions for you, my predecessors. Nearly died doing it.
Of course, this also had much to do with Yi Shuyuan himself and the Celestial Court's fortune.
The Vital Essence Pill's medicinal power surged forth, restoring Yi Shuyuan's body. He felt warm all over now, and drowsiness washed over him. Seeing that all the flows of aura were steady, he showed no sign of tiptoeing about in fear. Instead, he simply lay down on the bare mountaintop.
"Haaah..."
"This winter makes a man sleepy."
After a yawn, Yi Shuyuan murmured those words, then lay on his side with his arm beneath his head and fell asleep amid the flickering glow of the Alchemy Furnace.
Perhaps the earlier Geng Metal tribulation had stirred the Mountain and River State Map. Perhaps it was because the moisture and star power within that