"Senior, please go first."
Seeing Nangong Jingxin wreathed in golden light, Yang Yuanzhao, who had passed through the curtain alongside her, tactfully extended a hand in invitation.
Nangong Jingxin gave a slight nod, then stepped before the azure pill furnace and cast a streak of golden light into it.
Sensing that trace of aura, the Mysterious Pill hiding within the furnace stirred once more.
This time, rather than directly scattering down its mysterious intent as before, it peeled a pill pattern from its body, turning it into a thread that drifted around Nangong Jingxin.
This talented cultivator of the Nangong Clan seized the chance to display her own Dao arts, and the golden radiance surrounding her shone even more brilliantly.
Yet though the pill-pattern spirit thread darted back and forth around her, it never truly descended upon her. In the end, it returned to the pill furnace.
Even Nangong Jingxin was somewhat surprised by this result. She lowered her eyes to glance at the golden light around her, her face revealing no emotional fluctuation, and no one knew what she was thinking at that moment.
Still, she quickly accepted the outcome and said to Yang Yuanzhao beside her, "Your turn."
"Ah! Thank you, Senior!"
Yang Yuanzhao immediately answered, then walked up to the pill furnace, condensed several strands of scarlet fire true essence, and cast them into it.
Because this true essence contained the intent of true fire, it immediately drew the attention of the Mysterious Pill within the furnace.
It likewise poked its head out to examine Yang Yuanzhao, and seemingly finding him passable enough, cast down a strand of pill-spirit mysterious intent.
The warm, sunlit sensation made Yang Yuanzhao feel immensely comfortable. When this mysterious intent sensed the aura of the spirit pearl within his body, it revealed