613: amazing skill

Boom!

The massive, dark red Pill Furnace was ignited rapidly!

A fierce glint flashed in Kuang Wutian's eyes; he held nothing back anymore!

He let out a low shout and formed seals with his hands. A golden flame—supreme in Yang, intense, and seemingly capable of burning everything in existence—erupted from his palms and instantly engulfed the Pill Furnace!

The temperature of the entire plaza soared suddenly, causing the air to warp!

"Nine Yang True Fire! The Saint has truly brought out his real skill!"

"What terrifying heat! This refining speed is simply astonishing!"

"It is truly worthy of being one of the top-tier flames in the world!"

Kuang Wutian's movements were as fast as lightning; one by one, precious Spirit Medicine were precisely tossed into the flames.

Under the refining of the overbearing Nine Yang True Fire, the Impurities were burned into nothingness almost instantly, and the essence of the medicine was rapidly extracted. The speed was shocking!

A confident smile appeared at the corners of his mouth; this was his greatest reliance!

Looking at Yao Delong, however, he was calm and unhurried. With a casual swipe of his storage ring, a Pill Furnace with an archaic shape and an aura of vast, heavy antiquity appeared before him!

On the body of the cauldron, vague shadows of the sun and moon rotating and mountains and rivers rising and falling flickered in and out of existence, while a majestic dao rhyme capable of suppressing the universe permeated the area!

"The mountain river sun moon cauldron! A High Grade Heaven-Grade Weapon Pill Furnace!"

"Hiss... The Yin Yang Sect is truly wealthy and imposing! They've actually bestowed such a Pill Furnace to a True Disciple?"

"What a powerful dao rhyme! This furnace is extraordinary!"

Kuang Wutian's gaze was also drawn to the mountain river sun moon cauldron; his pupils constricted slightly, but he immediately snorted coldly:

"No matter how good the Pill Furnace is, it depends on the person using it!"

Yao Delong paid no mind. With a thought, a wisp of emerald-green flame, warm in color, full of exuberant vitality, and seemingly containing the creation of life, rose from his fingertips. This was exactly the Life-Generating Creation Fire he Cultivates!

Although the aura of this flame was profound, the heat fluctuations it emitted were clearly more than a notch weaker than Kuang Wutian's Nine Yang True Fire, which could burn the heavens and boil the seas!

"Huh? True Disciple Yao's Pill Fire... seems to only be at the level of Essence Fire?"

"Although it contains vitality and is High Grade for Alchemy, its power is far inferior to the Nine Yang True Fire!"

"It seems True Disciple Yao is going to suffer a great disadvantage in terms of refining and purification speed!"

"Sigh, he is still too young. The foundation of Pill Fire requires time to accumulate!"

Many knowledgeable Elders off the stage shook their heads one after another; some who had originally held a glimmer of expectation now sighed inwardly, fearing that Yao Delong would fall behind in speed.

Li Linger clenched her small hands. Although she unconditionally believed in Brother Yao, seeing the clearly weaker flame, she couldn't help but feel worried.

However, Yao Delong's expression remained as calm as an ancient well. He flicked his finger, and the emerald-green Life-Generating Creation Fire, as if possessing life, obediently wrapped around the Pill Furnace.

He did not dump the Spirit Medicine in all at once like Kuang Wutian, but instead, with a rhythm that seemed slow but actually contained the rhythms of heaven and earth, he added the Spirit Medicine in batches and in a specific order into the furnace.

His movements were like flowing water and drifting clouds, devoid of any worldly aura, and every gesture seemed to secretly align with the Heavenly Dao!

Under his exquisite control, the seemingly gentle emerald flame acted like countless nimble carving knives, removing Impurities and extracting essence with unimaginable precision and efficiency!

The flame sometimes nourished, sometimes brushed, and sometimes circled. The Spirit Medicine in the flame seemed to be imbued with life, and the essence of the medicine was perfectly and gently guided out, without the slightest damage!

Gradually, the eyes of the knowledgeable Elders changed!

"This... this technique?!"

"Wonderful! Simply wonderful! It is truly turning decay into magic!"

"Using softness to overcome hardness! He has brought the vitality characteristics of that flame to the extreme! The medicinal properties are preserved perfectly!"

"Look at the medicinal essence he extracted; the color is pure, the spiritual rhyme is full, and the quality seems to be... even a notch higher than what Holy Son Kuang violently refined with the Nine Yang True Fire?!"

Time passed minute by minute.

Relying on the overbearing nature of the Nine Yang True Fire, Kuang Wutian was extremely fast.

Yao Delong's technique was exquisite, handling weight as if it were light, and his speed was not slow in the slightest!

Two days of time flowed by.

In front of the Pill Furnace before Yao Delong, one hundred and eight clusters of medicinal essence, each with different colors, shimmering with spiritual light, and emitting a pure medicinal fragrance, floated and circled, like stars surrounding the moon!

He had actually completed the purification and refining of all the Spirit Medicine first!

Meanwhile, on Kuang Wutian's side, there were still the last eight types of Spirit Medicine being arduously refined!

Sweat had already appeared on his forehead, and his heart was already churning with stormy waves! How is this possible?!

His flame is clearly so much stronger! How could his speed be faster than mine?!

And those medicinal liquids... the quality... a strong sense of unease instantly gripped him!

Yao Delong did not pause in the slightest; his hands changed hand seals like a butterfly flitting through flowers!

Under the precise guidance of his Divine Thought, the one hundred and eight floating clusters of medicinal essence began to slowly approach and fuse, following a trajectory that was dizzyingly complex yet contained the ultimate principles of the Heavenly Dao!

The solution forming the embryo!

This step was the critical stage that most tested an alchemist's Divine Thought strength, control precision, and depth of understanding of the Pill Formula!

One hundred and eight types of medicinal essence with different properties, some even with conflicting attributes, had to be perfectly fused at the most appropriate timing, with the most perfect proportions, and experiencing the most precise changes in heat to form the Medicinal Pill embryo!

Violent medicinal power fluctuations surged within the Pill Furnace; the slightest carelessness would result in conflicting medicinal properties and the outcome of the Medicinal Pill being destroyed and the furnace exploding!

Kuang Wutian had also finally finished refining at this moment; without time to think, he immediately started his own Fusion step.

He was fully focused. Under the control of his powerful Divine Thought, the Nine Yang True Fire became incredibly tame, cautiously guiding the Fusion of the medicinal liquids.

He held a breath of determination in his heart; this was his only chance to overtake him!

However, when his Divine Thought slightly perceived the Fusion process on Yao Delong's side, he almost lost his composure!

Inside Yao Delong's Pill Furnace, there was complete harmony! The violent medicinal power seemed to be combed by an invisible hand of creation, fusing together obediently!

His Divine Thought was like a vast ocean, steadily and precisely controlling every subtle change, and the transition of the heat was even more perfect to the extreme!

The Fusion process actually gave people a sense of naturalness and accomplishment!

"This... this is impossible! How can his Divine Thought be so thick and powerful?! How can his control be so exquisite?!"

Kuang Wutian screamed frantically in his heart, and a chill rushed from the soles of his feet straight to his crown!

Seven days of time passed amidst countless bated breaths and attentive gazes.

"Hum—!"

Yao Delong's mountain river sun moon cauldron emitted a low and perfect hum!

The lid of the furnace opened lightly, and a pale golden Medicinal Pill embryo, the size of a dragon's eye, covered in mysterious light patterns, and emitting astonishing energy fluctuations, floated out!

The god-shattering pill embryo, complete! The strength of the spiritual rhyme it emitted far exceeded everyone's imagination!

Kuang Wutian followed closely behind and finally finished condensing his embryo with great difficulty!

But looking at his own embryo, whose light was slightly dim and whose spiritual rhyme fluctuations were a notch weaker, his face had already turned somewhat pale.

"Next, refine the medicinal properties and condense the pill pattern! This is the final sprint!"

A final stubbornness and unwillingness erupted in Kuang Wutian's eyes!

He drove the Nine Yang True Fire to the extreme, attempting to compress the medicinal properties with the strongest firepower to condense a higher-level pill pattern!

However, right at this moment, Yao Delong made a move that made everyone's jaws drop!

He waved his hand, and he actually snatched the newly condensed god-shattering pill embryo directly out of the mountain river sun moon cauldron, causing it to float in the Void Realm!

"What is he trying to do?!"

"Condensing the pill after leaving the Pill Furnace? This... this is unheard of!"

"Without the protection of the Pill Furnace, the embryo is extremely fragile; the slightest carelessness will ruin it!"