Time slipped by, second by second, and soon all the auxiliary herbs were refined. Only then did Wang Xiu pick up a Nourishing Soul Lotus, tossing it into the Yunhua Alchemy Furnace to be refined as the main ingredient for the Supreme Soul-Nourishing Elixir.
A moment later, the Nourishing Soul Lotus also transformed into a mass of silvery medicinal liquid. It floated inside the pill furnace with the eighteen other pools of liquid, each reflecting the others' brilliance.
What came next was the truly difficult part: fusing the medicinal liquids, all of which had different properties. The slightest error in proportion could trigger a violent conflict among them, and a furnace explosion would inevitably follow. Most alchemists were meticulous to an extreme during this process, some even fusing the liquids one drop at a time.
However, Wang Xiu's approach was quite brutish, one might even say reckless.
