Heavenly South, Star-Magnetic Peak, deep within the Way-Seeking Palace, in the pill chamber.
Aside from the "Pseudo-Microcosm" meditation chamber he had established in the Way-Seeking Palace, this pill chamber had cost Han Li the greatest effort to build. Its walls and vaulted ceiling were forged from a mixture of rare void stone and magnetic essence crystal fragments, then inscribed with composite formation runes he had derived from Venerable Cang Kun's bone slip, insights exchanged with Tianjizi, and his own understanding. These runes stabilized space, isolated the chamber from the outside world, regulated energy, assisted in controlling fire, and served many other functions. At the center of the floor, a dark-gold furnace over ten feet tall, shaped like an ancient three-legged cauldron, slowly revolved. Nine lifelike reliefs of horned dragons in different poses adorned its body, their mouths facing its belly, while faint traces of earth-vein true fire and Extraterrestrial Astral Wind circulated through it.
The Nine-Dragon Magnetic Essence Furnace was Han Li's bonded pill furnace, personally forged through ten years of painstaking work using his true demon qi and Primordial Magnetic Divine Light as its foundation, along with vast quantities of precious materials. Not only could it perfectly withstand and harmonize medicinal energies of extreme attributes, it could also draw upon a trace of magnetic essence power to assist pill condensation and improve a pill's grade. It possessed irreplaceable efficacy when refining strange pills such as the Defilement Spirit Pill, whose primary ingredients included myriad defilement blood crystal and earth fiend fire essence-substances of utmost yin and evil, and utmost yang and ferocity.
At that moment, a strange flame interwoven with dark purple, scarlet gold, and deep blue burned quietly beneath the furnace. It was neither ordinary earth fire nor nascent soul fire. Using true demon qi as fuel and