He set the Pill Furnace in place, then had Yanbao breathe Ash Calamity Fire beside it, kindling the furnace flame.
Jiang Yan first laid out the main ingredients for refining Fire-Resisting Pills, arranging them neatly one by one.
There were not very many ingredients. Aside from the Fire Fruits produced in the Fire Vein, another main ingredient was equally important.
Jiang Yan took out a jade slab and placed it beneath Flame Carp's scale.
Then he activated the repaired Sword Talisman and slashed fiercely at Flame Carp's scale.
Clang!
Like a hammer striking an anvil, a heavy crash rang through the room.
Yet Flame Carp's scale remained pristine, without even the slightest mark.
Still unwilling to give up, Jiang Yan changed angles and wielded the Sword Talisman alone, slicing back and forth at the edge of Flame Carp's scale.
Only after ruining two finished Sword Talismans in succession did he manage to cut two tiny flakes from Flame Carp's scale.
Despite Jiang Yan's prolonged assault, the scale looked no different.
He carefully collected the two flakes and placed them in a jade bottle.
The two Sword Talismans in his hands were now covered in jagged teeth like saws, and Jiang Yan casually tossed them onto the table.
These flakes from Uncle Flame Carp's scale were precisely the other main ingredient of Fire-Resisting Pills.
This was also why Fire-Resisting Pills could become a specialty of the Fire-Breathing Lineage. If Fire Fruits alone were needed, other disciples could always obtain some as they came and went.
But this other main ingredient could only come from a Fire Vein Spirit.
It was precisely because they used these two ingredients from the Fire Vein that Fire-Resisting Pills could help disciples entering it withstand the scorching heat within.
Setting the jade bottle containing the scale