"Why is this fire... cold?"
"The Dao fire of the Cold Purity Palace is naturally different from ordinary pill fire."
"I've heard refining pills this way preserves the medicinal properties of treasure medicines to the greatest extent. I wonder if that's true."
Discussions rose one after another all around them.
An Ziqing, however, had no mind to pay them any attention.
He quietly shut out the sounds around him, his expression growing solemn as he raised a hand and sent all the treasure medicines on the table into the pill cauldron.
Then he struck the cauldron!
Hum!!
Snow-white Dao fire surged up from within!
Streams of Immortal Essence separated the treasure medicines inside, then fed them into the fire one by one in the order recorded in the pill formula.
Leaves curled, and roots and stems split.
Under his control, the treasure medicines, each with different medicinal properties, underwent constant changes, releasing crystalline medicinal liquid.
This process demanded extremely precise mental control.
The heat, the Immortal Essence, and even the subtle differences between the treasure medicines themselves all had to be carefully accounted for.
The slightest carelessness would destroy their medicinal properties!
Normally,
refining this [Void-Breaking Dao-Sensing Pellet] would require An Ziqing's complete concentration, just as it had over the past few days. He could not afford even a moment's distraction.
Yet he still could not resist glancing at the young man opposite him.
Ye Li had not touched the pill cauldron before him. Instead, he raised a hand and summoned a mass of crimson-gold divine fire!
The flames churned, taking the shape of a dragon.
With a wave of his hand, all the neatly arranged treasure medicines left the table and were swallowed by the fire dragon in a single gulp!
"...?!"
An Ziqing stared, dumbfounded.
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