No wonder Xiao Hua was stunned, no wonder his expression was so complicated. It was because... the hand seals Xiao Yuehong performed looked incredibly familiar to him, as though he too could perform them.
Yet as Xiao Yuehong completed the hand seals, Xiao Hua shook his head slightly. Xiao Yuehong's hand seals looked familiar, but their details were vastly different from the feeling in his heart! Moreover, Xiao Hua vaguely felt that Xiao Yuehong's hand seals... seemed to have been performed incorrectly, or that something had gone wrong somewhere! Thus, the fingers hanging at Xiao Hua's sides began to twitch faintly without his noticing.
Just as the fingers of both hands moved slightly, Xiao Hua suddenly shook his head and thought, Am I mistaken? The Sect Leader's hand seals... can only be performed at the Foundation Establishment stage. How could I possibly know them? Even if I did know them three years ago, I had no cultivation then. How could I possibly have known alchemy?
While Xiao Hua was lost in thought, Xiao Yuehong's hand seals had already struck the green flames. Empowered by Xiao Yuehong's spiritual power, the flames abruptly shrank. Yet the entire pill chamber only seemed to grow hotter. Within several breaths after the green flames shrank, a faint rumbling rose from the platform.
Oh, the Sect Leader's hand seals are used to ignite the fire! Xiao Hua thought naturally. But before these hand seals are cast... one still needs saltpeter and an Ignition Talisman. Only being able to ignite the earthfire directly would make it a true Fire Ignition Technique!
With a boom, the platform beneath the pill furnace suddenly ignited amid its rumbling. Bright yellow flames tinged with green wrapped around the entire bottom of the pill furnace.
"Good." Xiao Yuehong nodded slightly. "The earthfire