C402 (2/2)
Yang Xie's expression changed slightly as he exclaimed, ”Earth Vein Flame?!”
This fire's temperature was extremely high, it could remove the impurities within the medicinal herbs and materials, and was the most suitable for refining smithing.
”Eh? ”You actually recognize this flame? Did you learn alchemy before?” Shock flashed past the eyes of the Old Man as he asked.
”I have indeed trained with Pills, but only a few low level Pills were refined.” Yang Xie replied. Naturally, he did not tell the truth, as did not know a thing about Pills.
Of course, as to why he was able to recognize the Earth Vein Fire, it was naturally because the Daoist Huo Long had mentioned it before.
”Yes, with your cultivation, the pill formula you can come in contact with is just a low level Pills. Although it is only a low level Pills, it has still been refined, and should still be able to be of some use.” The Elder Ge muttered to himself. The appearance he displayed actually made Yang Xie feel a chill in his heart, though he did not know why. He had a faint feeling that this mission was not a good thing.
At this time, the Elder Ge turned his head and spoke to Yang Xie: ”Alright, I believe you already guessed that this is the place where This Old Man will refine pills. Now that This Old Man is refining a batch of Pills, there must be someone watching over the process. In the future, we will watch over the furnace everyday and during the daytime. If anything happens, This Old Man will naturally come over. ”
”Also, This Old Man has always been studying the pill formulas, so I don't have time to bother about you. Inside this array is a method to enter and exit, take a look and come in by yourself later.” With that, the Elder Ge swung his hand and threw a jade chip over to Yang Xie. Then, he left the secret chamber with his messy hair.
Yang Xie took the jade chip and looked at it blankly. He didn't react for a long time, and according to what he had done before, he already had a bad premonition that this mission was definitely not going to be simple.
But looking at it now, this mission seemed to be very simple, wasn't it just guarding the pill furnace, could it be that there was some danger?
Yang Xie's mind was filled with thoughts, he stared at the pill furnace in the middle and carefully examined it, but he did not find anything amiss.
After looking for a while, Yang Xie decided not to think anymore. Since he had come, he had to complete the mission no matter what.
At that moment, Yang Xie sat cross legged on the ground, and began to quietly watch over the furnace in the middle. The furnace was roasted by the vein of the earth, but it did not move at all.
The Earth Vein's flames were extremely hot, it was enough to melt normal spirit weapon, even though Yang Xie's body was strong, if he stayed here for too long, he would have no choice but to circulate his Spirit Qi to defend against the scorching Qi.
Time passed bit by bit and in the blink of an eye, half a day had already passed. The furnace, on the other hand, was safe and sound, without the slightest change.
At this moment, Yang Xie couldn't help but to let his guard down, as he felt that the day would soon pass like this.
However, just at this moment, the originally calm furnace began to tremble for some reason, the lid began to shake, and made ”ding ding dang dang” sounds, as if it was going to explode.
Seeing that, Yang Xie's face changed. From the looks of it, the pill furnace was about to fail, as if it wanted to explode from within.
Yang Xie opened his mouth, just as he was about to call out to Elder Ge, there was a loud bang! With a ”boom”, the pill furnace in the middle suddenly exploded, and a strong wave of air blew up the sky with the pieces, shooting out in all directions.
That piece of debris tore through the void, emitting a terrifying 'hiss' sound. One could imagine what would happen if one was struck by that piece of debris.
”This is bad!” Yang Xie's face changed greatly. Without thinking, the Spirit Qi in his body started to circulate rapidly, condensing into a Spirit Qi light barrier around his body, at the same time, he roared out loud, his body suddenly expanded by a size, the veins on his body bulged, using his body as the second line of defense.
Pah pah pah pah pah!
The shards that filled the sky fell onto Yang Xie's protective light, after colliding until the light beam trembled violently, they finally lost all their strength and fell onto the ground, producing tinkling sounds.
Yang Xie's shocked expression faded. Looking at the center, he saw that the originally huge furnace had now disappeared, leaving behind a pile of black ash and fragments on the ground. The fragments were naturally the furnace, and the black ash should be the Pills among the pill furnace.
”Sigh, what a pity, this batch of Pills is about to succeed, why would it suddenly explode again. ”Strange, what's wrong?” At this time, the initially closed secret chamber stone door suddenly opened, and the Elder Ge who had left earlier came back, staring at the pill furnace with a face filled with regret.
Hearing this, Yang Xie's face became extremely ugly. From Elder Ge's words, it was obvious that the pill furnace had exploded twice, and at that moment, he finally understood the danger Hua Lao was talking about. Why would those people be unwilling to accept this mission? Why did Old Man say those words just now.
Originally, they were all above the exploding pellet, although the exploding pellet's might was not fatal, it was still very difficult for cultivators to resist, and would inevitably suffer light injuries, and the higher cultivation ones were not willing to accept such a tedious quest, which was why no one had any interest in the mission.
At the moment, Yang Xie did not know how long it would take for the Pills to explode, but when he thought about how frequent exploding pellet they were, Yang Xie could not help but laugh bitterly, and suddenly realized what kind of mission he had accepted.