An hour later, Tang Wen seemed a little hungry. He actually took several plates of food out of his case, poured himself a glass of red wine, and slowly savored it.
Ge He, by contrast, was sweating buckets as he worked, his face blackened by smoke. How could he be as carefree as Tang Wen?
Another two hours passed, and the medicine seemed ready.
Having eaten and drunk his fill, Tang Wen simply put the furnace lid on and came over to chat and joke with Luo Xue and the others.
"Senior brother, won't your medicine burn?" Luo Xue looked at the furnace with some concern.
"Don't worry. Mine maintains a constant temperature, much like an electric oven," Tang Wen said.
"Elder Tang, can you refine pills with electricity too?" Zhou Zhimei could not help asking.
"Heh." Tang Wen smiled without answering.
"You must have modified this Pill Furnace," said Wei Yun, the Tianshan Sect's Pill Master.
"Of course. Otherwise, could I refine pills this easily?" Tang Wen replied.
"Improving a Pill Furnace using the principles of a constant-temperature chamber would certainly make pill refining much easier.
"But electricity can't produce pills with spiritual properties.
"If all Elder Tang produces are ordinary medicinal pellets, well..."
When it came to pill refining, the Danding Sect naturally had a say. They produced pills in great quantities. Their deputy sect master, Luo Gui, shook his head.
"Are you saying what I refine is rubbish?" Tang Wen asked, looking at him.
"I wouldn't call it rubbish. At least ordinary people can take it to strengthen their bodies," Luo Gui said.
"Elder Tang is wasting Pill Master Ge's time, and ours too."
"Exactly. Surely we're not expected to sit here watching a rubbish show?"
"Elder Tang is treating this rather like child's play."
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