In just one day, Xiao Yan had refined six Fifth-Grade Energy-Gathering Pills and four sixth-grade Energy-Gathering Pills.
The magic cores consumed in refining these pills were insignificant compared to the Misty Cloud Sect's centuries of accumulated reserves.
Among the Misty Cloud Sect's reserves, there were not only Sixth-Rank magic cores, but even Seventh-Rank and Eighth-Rank magic cores.
Clearly, Yun Potian had been no ordinary Dou Zun back then. Otherwise, obtaining eighth-tier magic cores would not have been so easy.
Within the spacious hall, the air was unusually dry because of the Beast King Lotus Heart Flame.
Xiao Yan's expression was serious and focused. Soul power surged out of his body as he carefully extracted the violent energy within the magic core.
The greatest challenge in refining an Energy-Gathering Pill was extracting the violent energy within the magic core, then using medicinal ingredients to neutralize its volatile properties.
That was precisely the step Xiao Yan was carrying out now.
The pill he was refining was a Seven-Tier Energy-Gathering Pill.
Although this was his first time refining a Seventh-Grade Pill, his powerful soul strength kept his movements from seeming unfamiliar.
To succeed on his first attempt, Xiao Yan had also borrowed Yao Lao's Black Demon Cauldron.
This cauldron ranked eighth on the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking and provided an enormous boost to pill refinement.
With the Black Demon Cauldron, Xiao Yan was confident he had a seventy-percent chance of success.
As time passed, pale purple flames continued to blaze within the Black Demon Cauldron.
At the center of those flames, a crystal the size of a pigeon's egg was slowly melting.
Behind Xiao Yan, Yao Lao remained silent, but his face was filled with emotion.
Once Little Yanzi finished refining this Seven-Tier Energy-Gathering Pill, he would be a Seventh-Rank Alchemist.
And this boy