What exactly was "natal True Essence"? Yes, who knew? Perhaps only the legendary Foundation Establishment cultivators knew. In any case, Zhang Xiaohua, who had only just reached mid Qi Cultivation, was completely lost in a fog!
Still, although he did not know how to spit out natal True Essence, he could control most of the earlier hand seals. Zhang Xiaohua did not want to give up this chance to refine it. When it came to the final step, he simply would not "spit," right?
After closing his eyes and recalling it for a while, Zhang Xiaohua found that the refinement hand seals were not complicated. After memorizing them for only a moment, he had become familiar with them. He practiced them briefly with his hands, then took a deep breath and directed his true qi to his fingertips. Meticulously forming the hand seals, he then sent the completed seals into the pill furnace.
As the hand seals entered it, the enormous pill furnace gradually went from utterly motionless to reacting faintly. In the end, it actually began to hum, as though a giant were awakening. Seeing five-colored radiance emerge from the furnace as well, Zhang Xiaohua, who was forming seals, gradually began to sweat on his brow, yet his face was unusually excited. Though he had controlled a small pill furnace this way before, compared with this, it had been no more than a child playing with mud. At first, the furnace's hum seemed to come from far away; then it moved beside his ears, then before his eyes, and finally seemed to enter his heart. By the time the true qi within Zhang Xiaohua was nearly exhausted, he had reached the final hand seal. The humming had reached its peak, and the radiance had become ever more dazzling. At