Li Ximing probed for a moment to ensure Tinglan had already departed, then activated the Treasure-Elephant Furnace to begin refining pills. The Boundless Water-Fire rolled across the bottom of the furnace and the many spirit herbs flew in one after another, each melting away in turn.0

The Boundless Water-Fire had to refine the ingredients eighteen thousand six hundred times for the Heavenly Quintessence-Expelling Pill. This fire was not only the flame for pill refining but also counted as an ingredient itself. He drew out another strand of interwoven blue and cyan spiritual flame and cast it into the furnace.2

It was originally grueling work. Boundless Water-Fire was never meant for pill refining and behaved like Merging Fire, refusing to stop until it burned materials bare. Yet the recipe insisted on...0