“It is indeed a bit strange,” Zuan said, taking out a new set of clothes to change into while looking at Daji beside him. It was really hard to connect the quiet and beautiful woman in front of him with the fox spirit queen who had captivated all living beings in history. “If you say she has a mind, her eyes are usually rather dull and she can’t even speak; if you say she has no mind, she won’t even let me touch her.”

Mi Li sneered repeatedly: "As expected, he's a lecherous scoundrel. He wants to do all sorts of weird things just because someone is pretty."

"I was just testing you, okay?" Zuan hurriedly explained.

Mi Li rolled her eyes, too lazy to pay him any attention: "Now that you've made the Nine Cauldrons recognize you as your master, do you know what functions they have now?"

Zuan wiped the blood from his body. Although the injuries looked frightening, with his current physical strength, they weren't serious. "I haven't had a chance to assess them yet. Let me communicate first..."

He closed his eyes, connecting with that ancient and profound will in his heart. After a while, he opened his eyes with a strange expression.

"What's wrong?" Mi Li asked curiously.

“Because the Nine Cauldrons are incomplete, only a small portion of their functions can be used now. They can mainly be used for alchemy, and you know the characteristics of alchemy,” Zu An replied.

"I know?" Mi Li was completely confused. She had never personally come into contact with the Nine Cauldrons back then, so how could she know?

"You should have learned from Shen Xuzi that the Nine Cauldrons Alchemy combines the characteristics of a furnace of goodness, a furnace of evil, diligence, and extravagance, among other things?"

Mi Li was both surprised and delighted: "Wouldn't that combine the advantages of all the alchemy furnaces?"

“Not bad.” Zu An also smiled broadly. He had been itching to own all of Shen Xuzi’s amazing alchemy furnaces since he heard Shen Xuzi describe them. However, different furnaces were mutually exclusive and could not be owned together.

As a result, Jiuding has now perfectly enabled him to achieve his goal of becoming the jungle king who wants it all.

He couldn't help but say, "I wonder if the Nine Cauldrons has a copying function, and secretly copied the characteristics of those alchemy furnaces."

Mi Li shook her head: "I think it's the opposite. It's because those alchemy furnaces have been with the Nine Cauldrons for a long time and have been unconsciously influenced by their aura. Since they are not ordinary items themselves, they can transform into some of the characteristics of the Nine Cauldrons. Of course, even though they are not ordinary items, they are still far inferior to the Nine Cauldrons, so each one can only inherit a small part of the Nine Cauldrons' abilities and has so many other messy restrictions."

"I see." Zu'an also felt that her analysis made more sense, and hurriedly took out the medicinal materials he had prepared earlier. There were quite a few Tianhezhi and Chixingyu in the Imperial Hospital, but there were only two Zixiaolinghua left, which were seized from the Red Dragon's nest outside Mingyue City.

There were originally a few more plants, but they were destroyed and wasted when they were used to refine pills in a regular medicine furnace.

"I hope this time it will be successful." Zuan placed various medicinal herbs into the Nine Cauldrons according to the proportions recorded in the "Juyuan Ancient Scroll", and then called Daji to help him stoke the fire.

Daji stared wide-eyed, and whether it was her imagination or not, there seemed to be some reluctance in her eyes. However, she did not refuse. She still stretched out her slender hand and began to use the foxfire to wrap around the furnace and refine pills.

At this moment, Zuan was perfectly in sync with her, able to control the intensity of her actions.

Zuan was very curious. Since they were of one mind, why couldn't he sense what she was thinking?

However, he quickly regained his composure and began to concentrate on refining elixirs.

The nine cauldrons, surrounded by foxfire, became crystalline, and the changes in the medicinal herbs inside were almost visible to the naked eye.

Mi Li couldn't help but exclaim, "This cauldron is truly top-notch for alchemy! You know, the reason why the success rate of ordinary alchemy is not high is largely because alchemy is an extremely delicate process. If there are even a little too many or too few medicinal materials, or if the heat is not right, it can easily lead to failure. This skill can only be honed through extensive practice by alchemists. Now you can directly see the changes in the properties of the medicinal materials in the cauldron, and you can deal with them accordingly, completely saving others decades of research experience."

Zuan, however, was far from relaxed. He said in a deep voice, "No, I feel that it's still far from being done properly."

"Could it be that Daji's cultivation level is too low at the moment?" Mi Li frowned.

“No,” Zuan shook his head. “The feedback from the Nine Cauldrons is that something is missing. How should I put it? It seems that another kind of flame is needed, but I don’t know the specifics.”

"Huh?" Mi Li could now observe the situation inside the Nine Cauldrons through them. She saw that the surface of the medicinal herbs inside had gradually turned into a paste, but the inside was obviously unchanged. Her mind raced, and she quickly realized, "I understand. The Nine Cauldrons alchemy mostly requires the balance of Yin and Yang. Daji's fox fire is Yin. As the saying goes, Yin cannot produce, and Yang cannot grow. At this time, another kind of extremely strong and Yang flame is needed to work together to successfully activate the Nine Cauldrons."

Zaun was dumbfounded: "But where am I supposed to find flames now?"

It should be noted that due to the nature of his cultivation method, he did not awaken elemental power after reaching the sixth rank like other cultivators. The reason he was able to use fire later was entirely due to borrowing foxfire from Daji.

Where can he conjure fire out of thin air now?

Normally, we might be able to figure out a solution slowly, but now we're refining pills, and it's like an arrow on a bowstring—there's no way to stop halfway. Otherwise, these precious medicines would be completely wasted, and who knows when we'll be able to gather them all again.

Mi Li was also frowning, clearly troubled by this problem, but being knowledgeable, she immediately came up with a solution.

"Does your 'Phoenix Nirvana Sutra' awaken a strange bird with each breakthrough, granting it corresponding extraordinary abilities?" Mi Li asked quickly.

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