Having obtained the Crimson Flame Fruits, Mu Bai lingered no longer. He controlled the Crow Cauldron and shot out of the boundless magma sea, and the scorching sensation around his body immediately eased.
"Earthfire abounds here. This is an ideal place to refine pills. I'll find somewhere secluded and refine the Crimson Flame Fruits I gathered into pills first."
Mu Bai flew through the air to a mountaintop. Within its enormous, bowl-shaped volcanic crater, magma also churned and raged without cease, like a deep lake boiling at the mountain's mouth.
As long as he was not inside the magma sea, Mu Bai's body could barely withstand this scorching magma fire. He carefully flew into the crater and searched until he found a rocky outcrop. Stopping there, he set the Crow Cauldron over a fissure in the magma.
After swallowing a pill and meditating for a while, slowly growing accustomed to the intense heat here, Mu Bai suspended the two main ingredients needed to refine Ice-Fire Pills before him: Crimson Flame Fruits and mystic ice grass.
Mystic ice grass also grew in places with Extreme-Cold Spirit Springs, so there were bound to be places where it grew in the Northern Plains. However, Mu Bai had purchased these stalks at the Spirit Taming Sect's Pill Hall after seeing the formula for Ice-Fire Pills in Thousand Divine Herb Formulas. He had not expected to find Crimson Flame Fruits here in the magma lands of the Northern Plains, allowing him to refine Ice-Fire Pills on the spot.
As for third-level pills, Mu Bai had once refined a Dragon-Awakening Pill with the Artifact Spirit Ancestor's help. It was precisely that effort that had caused the Artifact Spirit Ancestor to fall into slumber again. Now, however, his soul power had increased greatly, and Mu Bai was