Having made up his mind, Zhang Xiaohua placed both hands on the protrusions of the pill furnace and sent his true qi into it. The furnace was peculiar indeed; under the manipulation of his true qi, the temperature within could actually be raised or lowered at will.
"Isn't this very easy to control?" Zhang Xiaohua could not help frowning.
After familiarizing himself with it for a while longer, Zhang Xiaohua turned the earth fire to its maximum. One hand remained on a protrusion of the furnace, using true qi to control the temperature inside, while his other hand added gastrodia and other herbs into the furnace in sequence according to the Blood Replenishing Pill recipe, refining away the impurities within. Before long, all the herbs had been added. Only then did Zhang Xiaohua place both hands on the protrusions and slowly begin refining them over a gentle fire, following the records of Martial Way alchemy.
Watching Zhang Xiaohua add herbs into the furnace with such orderly precision, Nie Qianyu was already astonished. How did this look like someone trying it for the first time? When she saw him place both hands on the furnace and close his eyes to refine the pill, she had long since spat in her heart. This guy actually hid it from me. He must have practiced for a few days back in his sect. Had she not understood Zhang Xiaohua's character and known him to be an open-hearted man, she would likely have begun to suspect his motives for coming to Hui Chun Valley.
After the time it took for an incense stick to burn, Zhang Xiaohua opened his eyes slightly. Seeing the dark-red powder floating in the center of the furnace, he knew the refinement was complete. One hand left the protrusion just as