The sun sank in the west, its blazing outline gradually blurring as a last wash of golden-red light bathed the little valley in its afterglow.
Qian Daoliu, Golden Crocodile Douluo, and the others stared wide-eyed at the little black cauldron spinning a short distance away. It had three legs and two handles, and tongues of flame occasionally spurted from it, making it look extraordinarily eerie.
Beside the cauldron, Qian Chongling formed a succession of profound hand seals. A careful observer would have noticed that the seals differed from time to time. Soon, a rich medicinal fragrance drifted from the cauldron, making their mouths water.
Just then, a golden message suddenly flashed through Qian Chongling's mind.
"If this system remembers correctly, your pill-refining skills are only at master level, host. Is it really appropriate to divide your attention and refine two kinds of pills in one furnace?"
Those words exploded like thunder in Qian Chongling's mind. His fingers, which had been forming the Flame-Suppressing Seal, instead formed the Blazing Flame Seal.
The pill cauldron, which had already been spinning faster and faster, abruptly accelerated until all the naked eye could see was a black blur.
Then it began to smoke.
A faint scorched smell drifted into the noses of Qian Daoliu and the others.
The moment he smelled it, Qian Chongling hurriedly stopped the cauldron's rotation. Narrowing his eyes, he peered through its vents at the two batches of pills inside, made primarily from Ice Mountain Snow Ginseng and Nine-Grade Lingzhi, respectively.
All four Ice Snow Pills in the Ice Mountain Snow Ginseng batch had been charred black, while half the Nine-Grade Lingzhi batch had burned, leaving only two Lingzhi Pills glowing with a faint purple light.
Both kinds strengthened one's foundations and nourished one's vitality. They were among the most