"My alchemy furnace is a fifth-grade Crimson Sun Condensing Flame Furnace."
After a streak of crimson light flashed between Kong Bai and the others, an ancient-looking alchemy furnace appeared, its surface engraved with various exquisite patterns, giving it an extremely noble appearance.
"What, kid, where's your alchemy furnace?"
Kong Bai raised his head high and asked with a hint of sarcasm.
For alchemists, a good alchemy furnace can make the process of refining pills twice as efficient, and its value is no less than that of an alchemist's pill-condensing method.
Qin Xin ignored Kong Bai's question and instead focused his mind.
After the method of refining the Five Elements Condensing True Pill flashed through his mind, the luminous pill scroll in his hand vanished. Qin Xin discovered that the method of refining the Five Elements Condensing True Pill recorded in the scroll seemed to be slightly different from the one he had obtained from the Zhan Clan.
After closing his eyes, he continuously poured his spiritual sense into the mysterious fragment of the map, which evolved into a phantom cauldron containing various spiritual herbs, with fine threads of spiritual energy entwined within it.
Qin Xin was using these fine threads of spiritual energy to gradually remove impurities, like peeling silk from a cocoon, so that the different spiritual energies could slowly merge together.
Within this illusory alchemy cauldron, the refining steps of the Yellow Dragon Profound True Pill are being continuously practiced.
"Hmph, just trying to be mysterious!"
Upon seeing Qin Xin close his eyes, Kong Bai gave a light rebuke. Then, a crimson martial spirit suddenly appeared behind him, and the Crimson Sun Flame Furnace in front of him instantly surged with powerful flames, and the heat wave swept across the entire Kunmen Square.
Seeing the surprised expressions of many disciples in the square, Kong Bai also wore a smug look on his face. He then sat cross-legged and began the first step of refining the pill: purifying the spiritual herbs.
Time passed quickly, and Qin Xin, with his eyes tightly closed, remained unconscious. Some commotion began to rise in the square, with many disciples believing that Qin Xin had given up on refining the Five Elements Condensing True Pill. After all, compared to the third-grade pill Condensing Aperture Pill, even some fourth-grade beginner alchemists were not confident in refining the Five Elements Condensing True Pill.
"Sister Qingxi, what's Qin Xin up to? He said he wanted to have a pill-refining competition, so why is he sleeping here?"
Somewhat puzzled, Ya Ru kept looking at Qin Xin with her big, bright eyes, but finding no reaction, she could only pout and ask Shui Qingxi.
"I have no idea what this guy is up to."
Shui Qingxi shook her head and sighed.
"I think Qin Xin has his own reasons for doing this."
Qin Xue expressed her trust in Qin Xin, while Mao Ruijin, standing beside her, remained silent and watched quietly.
"Don't underestimate this troublemaker; I think he can bring you some surprises."
The three monks beside him put their hands together in prayer, like high monks, and spoke in a pretentious manner.
Just as Sanjie finished speaking, a rather ordinary-looking alchemy furnace appeared in front of Qin Xin.
"A Grade Three Blazing Black Iron Furnace".
A slightly disdainful voice suddenly rang out from the surroundings.
Sanjie scratched his head awkwardly upon hearing this. After all, the Blazing Iron Furnace was quite ordinary in the inner courtyard, and its fire control array was very simple. For alchemists, it provided very little benefit when refining pills.
When Ya Ru saw the alchemy furnace in front of Qin Xin, she also sighed, because in terms of the quality of the alchemy furnace, Qin Xin had already lost completely.
"What do you think you can produce? Just a Blazing Iron Furnace."
Having completed the purification of the spiritual herb, Kong Bai opened his eyes and glanced at the alchemy furnace in front of Qin Xin. His already somewhat arrogant head was raised even higher.
For a time, all the disciples in the Kunmen Square were amazed. Kong Bai had won almost 100% of the competition. The only pity was that the Kunmen main peak, which had finally reopened its gates, would probably have its spiritual veins stripped away and be sealed off again.
There were even shouts and curses coming from the square. These disciples had settled here in hopes of joining the main peak of the Kun Sect, and now that they had lost that hope, they were naturally furious and blamed Qin Xin for everything.
Qin Xin simply ignored the taunts.
With a thought, the Martial Spirit quietly activated, and the Heavenly Phoenix Martial Spirit pattern on it emitted a warm light. A stream of heat flowed through the True Meridian into the True Acupoint, and then circulated to the fingertips.
With Qin Xin's gentle finger, warm true energy entered the Blazing Black Iron Furnace directly. In an instant, orange light shone, and a heat wave several times stronger than that emitted by Kong Bai's Crimson Sun Condensing Flame Furnace spread outwards.
"What kind of flame is this?"
"Could it be a strange fire?"
A series of exclamations suddenly rang out from all around. Even Kong Bai, who was about to enter the step of fusion of spiritual herbs, couldn't help but stop and look at the flames burning in the furnace in front of Qin Xin with some surprise.
"I don't think so. Strange fire isn't that weak."
Shui Qingxi was also taken aback by Qin Xin's sudden appearance. However, upon closer inspection, she realized that Qin Xin's flames were only slightly stronger than ordinary true fire, and were worlds apart from the strange fire.
The Eighth Elder stood to the side, a smile on his lips, watching the two refine pills.
After observing for a moment, Kong Bai also noticed the clues about Qin Xin's flames. He then felt relieved and focused on refining the pills, no longer taking Qin Xin seriously.
The mysterious fragment of the map completed the preliminary refining of the Five Elements Condensing True Pill. Qin Xin combined the prescription obtained from the Zhan Clan with the one given by the Eighth Elder, which greatly increased the success rate of pill formation and enhanced the efficacy of the pill.
"laugh!"
As Qin Xin threw several medicinal herbs for refining the Five Elements Condensing True Pill into the blazing black iron furnace in front of him.
For a moment, under the scorching heat of the flames, crackling sounds continuously emanated, but Qin Xin remained completely calm, meticulously controlling the flames within the alchemy furnace according to the anticipated steps.
"call!"
Soon, the purification of the spiritual herbs for refining the Five Elements Condensing True Essence Pill was completed. Qin Xin also let out a long breath. Compared to refining fourth-grade pills before, Qin Xin was now much more adept at it. In addition, with the improvement of his cultivation, the true energy in his body was now able to support the completion of the pill refining.
Without taking any rest, Qin Xin directly entered the process of fusing the spiritual medicine.
Seeing Qin Xin's rapid progress, Kong Bai sensed something was amiss and accelerated the fusion of the spiritual herbs, wanting to refine the Five Elements Condensing True Pill before Qin Xin could.
For a moment, all the disciples in the Kunmen Square held their breath and watched the two people in the square in silence.
At this moment, Ruan Yuan's gaze towards Qin Xin revealed a chilling look, and it was unclear what he was thinking. Many disciples knew that his younger brother, Ruan Yang, had died at the hands of a martial artist with a strange fire, and in a way that was completely unnoticed.
Ruan Yuan also went to Black Dragon City to investigate for several days, but to no avail. Even the patriarch of the Ruan clan came to Black Dragon City in person, but still could not find any trace of the murderer, and the matter was left unresolved.
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