The others in the hall looked over curiously. Unlike Heaven's Sacred Venerable, they lacked spiritual senses beyond the ordinary, so they had no idea why he had stopped halfway through his sentence.
Only Spider Mother's sparkling eyes flashed with an unusual gleam, as though she had sensed something.
"What's wrong?" Chu Mo looked at Heaven's Sacred Venerable with amusement.
The latter suppressed his doubts and put on a smile again. "Brother Chu, you've returned at just the right time. We were discussing when to use the essence within the furnace."
"I see..." Chu Mo's gaze shifted. "Since we already have it, the sooner the better, naturally. Delay might invite unforeseen trouble."
After learning a great deal of new information from Xiao Xuan, he had become much more confident. He no longer intended to delay and urged them to act quickly.
Heaven's Sacred Venerable clapped his hands and laughed. "Brother Chu, our minds truly are in accord. That was precisely my thought."
Several days later.
Light streamed down from the heavens, illuminating the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Furnace in the morning glow. The Yin-Yang Energies coiled around it like dragons and serpents, displaying all manner of extraordinary phenomena.
Heaven's Sacred Venerable stood before the Pill Furnace and, under everyone's gaze, cast a spell seal with a wave of his hand. With a thunderous rumble, the mountain-high lid sprang open, revealing clusters of radiant essence within.
"Yin, Yang, my fellow Daoists, come help me."
At his call, the two Yin-Yang Sacred Venerables, who had long been waiting, immediately stepped forward. One summoned a white horse pulling a great sun, while the other called forth a golden toad bearing a bright moon on its back. The moment the two deities appeared, they stirred the phenomena within the Pill Furnace. The ceaselessly circulating Yin-Yang