Thousand Spirit Peak.

The peach blossoms on the back hill have all withered, but the flowers here are still so bright and beautiful, as if nothing has changed.

In the courtyard, a... large black stove had already been set up?

That's right, it's a big black furnace, its exterior looks like it's been charred, a pitch-black mess, and it looks like it was just dug out of a coal mine.

Next to the large black furnace was a table with a lot of herbs on it, which looked like the materials Su Yuewan would use to refine pills.

In other words, this big black furnace... is an alchemy furnace?

Bai Hao really couldn't understand Su Yuewan's aesthetic sense.

“This alchemy furnace is called ‘Heaven and Earth True Furnace.’ Legend has it that it was a treasured alchemy furnace belonging to a great god from the upper realm. For some reason, it fell to the ground and I found it a thousand years ago. Although this furnace has lost its former glory because it is missing something, it is still better than almost all other alchemy furnaces,” Su Yuewan explained.

"Heaven and Earth True Furnace... The name sounds impressive, but its appearance is really not flattering."

Anyway, Bai Hao couldn't tell how powerful this thing was.

“Don’t underestimate him. In the entire Divine Radiance Continent, apart from the Pill Sect’s ‘Purple Gold True Furnace,’ only this Heaven and Earth True Furnace can refine Saint-grade pills,” Su Yuewan said.

"A Saint-grade pill...is it that high-level?" Bai Hao asked, puzzled.

Su Yuewan: "..."

"Sacred-grade pills are the highest-level pills. Don't you even have this basic common sense?"

"I don't know how to refine pills, it's a blind spot in my knowledge, it's normal that I don't know," Bai Hao said, pursing his lips.

Let him tend the stove; forget about refining pills.

Seeing him like this, Su Yuewan didn't expect Bai Hao to do anything; she simply wanted him to come.

“You haven’t finished painting this month yet. Go over there and continue painting.” Su Yuewan pointed to the desk on the other side, where brushes, ink, and paper had already been prepared.

"..."

This time, it was Bai Hao's turn to be speechless.

They said they wanted him to help with alchemy, but they actually tricked him into painting.

Moreover, he couldn't understand why Su Yuewan kept making him paint, even ten paintings a month. Was she going to sell them?

He had no idea that Su Yuewan asked him to paint because of the Daoist meaning in his paintings.

Ever since she discovered the Daoist essence in his first painting, Su Yuewan has been determined to keep him busy, requiring him to paint ten paintings every month.

Although only two or three of these ten paintings usually contain a hint of Daoist meaning, that is enough.

Even a trace of the Dao is extremely precious!

This is why Su Yuewan is refining pills today—she is refining "Barrier-Breaking Pills" to break through her mental barriers.

The Daoist wisdom she gained from Bai Hao's paintings over the past few months was a key reason why she was confident in refining elixirs to break through her mental barriers.

She is now confident that she can overcome her mental barrier, but to be on the safe side, she still needs a breakthrough pill.

Bai Hao casually began preparing to draw, but his attention was always on Su Yuewan, or more accurately, on the herbs on the table next to Su Yuewan.

[Rhodiola rosea, sesame seeds, honeysuckle, nectarine, and cinnabar—is this for making a barrier-breaking pill?]

Although he didn't know how to refine pills, the system still rewarded him with some pill formulas and medical prescriptions.

Even if it can't cure diseases, it's still good to know some herbs.

This time, Su Yuewan was not disturbed by his thoughts. Instead, she calmed down, cleared her mind of all distractions, and prepared to refine the pill.

The worst thing in alchemy is to be half-hearted; one must concentrate fully to refine the best elixir.

Especially since she was currently refining a Breakthrough Pill, she couldn't afford to be distracted.

Activating her inner energy, Su Yuewan placed her palm on the Heaven and Earth True Furnace, and a miraculous thing happened.

The alchemy furnace, which was originally pitch black, suddenly turned crimson red, like magma, cracking inch by inch and radiating a heart-palpitating heat wave.

But Su Yuewan seemed oblivious to the heatwave, her clothes billowing even without wind.

With a soft shout, the lid of the alchemy furnace flew up, and with a wave of her hand, she rolled up all the herbs on the table and put them inside before closing the lid again.

After the lid was closed, Su Yuewan gently patted the entire alchemy furnace, sending it flying and spinning into the air. However, Su Yuewan precisely controlled it with her true energy, making it spin rapidly in the air without going out of control.

The furnace's exterior, resembling a burning lava surface, continuously refines the herbs inside with its high temperature.

Bai Hao, who was standing to the side, was stunned.

Is alchemy... done like this?

So simple and crude?

Is it possible to refine it this way?

Bai Hao didn't understand and didn't dare to say anything, so he could only watch and simply draw Su Yuewan's current alchemy process.

"Buzz..."

Suddenly, a faint sound came from the alchemy furnace.

Then it grew louder and louder, as if something was roaring inside, and Su Yuewan's expression changed.

Bai Hao was also shocked.

It's about to explode!

"boom!"

Sure enough, a loud bang suddenly rang out. It didn't explode, but the entire alchemy furnace went out of control with a "boom" and crashed heavily to the ground. The entire furnace gradually went out of control, like a extinguished ember.

The alchemy furnace didn't explode, but it felt like it had.

Judging from Su Yuewan's expression, this alchemy attempt must have failed.

"It's been too long since I've refined pills. I didn't expect my technique to have become so rusty." Looking at the pill furnace, Su Yuewan knew she had failed without even opening it.

She was too confident.

Having not practiced alchemy for so many years, she should have honed her skills beforehand.

Bai Hao wisely kept quiet and silently placed the finished painting aside, standing silently to the side.

"Is it finished?"

Despite the failed alchemy attempt, Su Yuewan didn't show much disappointment.

"It's finished." Bai Hao reluctantly stepped aside.

There's nothing much to say about his paintings; his technique is almost always the same, and he doesn't care what Su Yuewan says.

On the contrary, he was quite interested in the alchemy furnace. While Su Yuewan went to look at the painting, he walked over to the Heaven and Earth True Furnace and examined it carefully.

On the front of the alchemy furnace, there was a groove that should have contained something, but it was now empty.

"This silhouette... it seems kind of familiar..."

Staring at the outline, Bai Hao felt it looked familiar, like... the glowing stone he had fished out of the bottom of the pool back then.

He immediately took out the stone from the system space, compared it, and it was exactly the same!

Is this stone something from the Heaven and Earth Furnace?!

"If we put this in, will it become a true furnace of heaven and earth?"

Bai Hao didn't dare to put it in rashly, but suddenly, the stone was placed in front of the outline, and the outline suddenly had a strong suction force, which actually sucked the red stone in directly!