Inside the great hall.
After hearing Li Ping's alchemy plan, Shi Yutong could not help looking delighted. She hurriedly said, "Then let's do as you suggest, Brother Li."
With that, she took out the Storage Bag containing hundreds of precious spirit herbs and eagerly handed it to Li Ping.
Nodding with a smile, Li Ping accepted the spirit herbs from Shi Yutong.
Then, under her anxious gaze, he carefully took out all the spirit herbs and precisely controlled his magical power to divide one furnaceful into ten portions.
He packaged the ten portions separately, each containing enough ingredients for one Profound Heart Pill.
Only after finishing all this did he take out the Alchemy Furnace and begin refining pills.
However, his Foundation Establishment Realm innate true flame could not refine third-tier spirit materials. A Core Formation Cultivator's pill flame, earthfire, or certain special Third-Tier Spirit Flames would be best for extracting their essences.
But Li Ping did not have access to those, and Snowflight City had no earthfire either. He could only use high-grade spirit charcoal to compensate, setting up several fire-control formations to help regulate the temperature.
With that, the conditions were reasonably adequate.
With a sweep of his magical power, the spirit herbs for one Profound Heart Pill flew into the Alchemy Furnace in succession. Li Ping's expression grew solemn as he carefully purified them.
Shi Yutong sat beside him, watching anxiously.
Yet less than an hour into Li Ping's refining, a scorched smell reached her nostrils. Her heart sank, and she knew the attempt had failed.
Sure enough, Li Ping soon opened the Alchemy Furnace.
An unidentifiable lump of charred material flew out. Guided by his magical power, it landed in his palm, where he examined it closely.
Although Shi Yutong was anxious, she did not dare