"Hm? Someone succeeded so quickly?"
Li Yan's heart stirred. His so-called pill refinement was only for the sake of condensing the pill, and should already have been considered very fast.
Yet when he was only one final step away, someone had actually beaten him out and left their Stone Chamber. That person had to ensure the pill's true grade, unlike him, whose goal was merely to meet the minimum threshold of pill condensation.
Li Yan hurriedly gathered his focus. He was about to open the cauldron and collect the pills. This final step was also the easiest point for an error to occur, the critical moment when the pills could collapse and be destroyed in an instant.
One of Li Yan's hands continued to perform the fire-control art, maintaining the flames in a stable state.
With the other hand, he pointed forward. As his finger struck out, the lid of the pill furnace soared high into the air and hovered there.
At the instant the furnace lid opened, a sheet of black light shot out from within, like dawn clouds bursting forth.
Amid the vast black radiance, a black pill shot into the air!
That pill had not yet fully condensed into form. It throbbed violently like a beating heart, swelling and shrinking as it shook with intense force.
The black glow it emitted also flickered between strong and weak, as though it could collapse at any moment.
Li Yan continued controlling the flames beneath the Void-Refining Cauldron with one hand and gave a low shout.
"Condense!"
A golden thread appeared at the tip of his other finger.
The instant the golden thread appeared, he swiftly pointed forward. The thread flew from his fingertip and coiled around the black pill that had shot into the air.
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