Bai Qingyan walked up to the stone wall covered in Alchemy Formulas, running her fingertips along its uneven grooves. Suddenly, she pointed to a line of tiny characters at the very bottom and spoke.
"Yun Che, come look. It says here that the exit to the secret chamber is behind the pill furnace. To open it, we have to activate the pill embryo inside the furnace first."
Yun Che walked over at her words and looked where she pointed. Sure enough, a waist-high Bronze Pill Furnace stood in the corner of the chamber, its lid tightly sealed. The faint crackling of alchemy fire came from within.
He gripped the lid and lifted it off. The heavy lid fell to the ground with a thud, sending dust into the air. A thumb-sized, blue-gold pill embryo lay at the bottom of the furnace, wrapped in three rings of unusual flame that were on the verge of dying out. Its spiritual energy was so thin that it had almost dispersed entirely.
"Is this... an Eternal Soul-Rebirth Pill?" Yun Che raised his eyebrows and immediately understood.
"That old ghost really hid himself well. So what I swallowed was only a wisp of his remnant soul. His true main soul was sealed inside this pill embryo, waiting for someone from a later generation to nurture the pill for him so he could rebuild his body."
Bai Qingyan immediately tightened her grip on the Ice Jade Immortal Sword. "Then what are we waiting for? Just destroy the pill embryo."
Yun Che waved a hand. "No rush. This pill embryo is a rare find. We only need to destroy the remnant soul sleeping inside."
With that, Yun Che directly extracted from the pill embryo. The next instant, a palm-sized little boy resembling an infant appeared, his eyes