Alchemist Bai Lu spoke while sighing again,

Zhou Xuan quickly grabbed the topic and said, "That’s right, my eyes can see the world inside the Pill Furnace. If I see it, isn’t it the same as you seeing it?"

"..."

"Think about it——you listen with your ears, this is an experience, but have you ever thought——in the experience that you hear with your ears, there are many hidden pitfalls and mistakes?"

"Generally speaking, there are." Alchemist Bai Lu admitted decisively.

The method of tossing a stone to ask for directions is like some folk witch doctors or fortune tellers, maybe their skills have many amazing tricks, but from another perspective, their skills must also include many ’ridiculous’ and ’useless’ maneuvers.

"That’s it. I use my eyes to see clearly, and help you smash all the ridiculous tricks in alchemy——discard the dross, retain the essence, even if your future alchemy skills can’t surpass mine, wouldn’t you be the second best in the world?"

Zhou Xuan sincerely said.

Alchemist Bai Lu finally understood the painstaking efforts in Zhou Xuan’s earlier words. First, he felt Zhou Xuan was right, and secondly, perhaps the title ’second best in the world’ was too dazzling,

he suddenly stood up, and was about to recite a poem: "Sir supports me on the Qing Yunzhi, I shall tread upon snow..."

"Are you repaying kindness with enmity, motherfucker?" Zhou Xuan immediately shouted to stop, continuously patting to remove the goosebumps on his body, while reprimanding Alchemist Bai Lu: "Next time when happy, just smile, don’t recite poems."

"Haha... haha." Alchemist Bai Lu, not allowed to recite poems, was left with only silly laughter.

"Let’s cut the chat short, come over for class."

This time, the one who likes to play the role of teacher became Zhou Xuan.

He looked at the sea of flames in the Pill Furnace, those wedding doll fragments were currently condensing into droplets, suspended in the sea of flames.

He asked Alchemist Bai Lu: "Old Bai Lu, do you know the current state of these materials?"

"No idea."

"They’ve turned into droplets, floating and sinking in the Fire Eye of the sea of flames. Now, whichever direction the Fire Eye moves, they’ll follow."

"Is it really such a scene?" Now Alchemist Bai Lu would have recorded every word of Zhou Xuan if he had a notebook.

Zhou Xuan didn’t respond directly because he saw new changes occurring among the droplets in the Pill Furnace.

Of the dozens of droplets, many were splitting—dividing one into two, some large droplets were splitting again, transforming from two into four.

Once the droplets completed their final division, they acquired the initial prototype of elixirs. Most droplets continued to float in the fire, but a small portion fell, left the sea of flames, and sank to the bottom of the Pill Furnace.

The Pill Furnace’s fire is the Heavenly Fire, different from ’mortal world fire, which always has a source’.

This fire’s most intense position is centralized at the Fire Tower’s center; if it gets higher or lower, the fire’s intensity greatly diminishes.

And those droplets that have acquired initial elixir prototypes, without further refinement by intense fire, won’t experience quality elevation.

In other words, those droplets sinking to the Pill Furnace bottom will all become wasted pills.

Zhou Xuan looked at those droplets that sank to the bottom, feeling quite distressed—they were high-quality elixirs, without the fire, they would be waste.

"Is there any way to lift these droplets back into the Fire Eye?"

After pondering for a moment, Zhou Xuan wore the Taoist Ancestor Mask, used the Saint’s Infinite Method to accumulate considerable strength, and struck towards the Fire Tower with a palm.

The palm strike was very gentle, the palm force didn’t damage the Fire Tower’s outer wall, but the palm strength penetrated entirely into the furnace bottom.

And, those droplets that should have sunk received the palm force, were lifted into the high-suspended Fire Eye for re-refinement.

"Hey, Mr., what are you doing, be careful not to startle the elixirs in the furnace... The elixirs in this furnace have spirit, at this time, we should burn incense and pray..."

"That’s all superstition."

Zhou Xuan said with a smile, narrating the scenes inside the Pill Furnace in detail.

Mr. Bai Lu listened as if hearing the Heavenly Book, saying: "The elixirs were formed this way? Split into droplets, then continued refining by furnace fire?"

"Lower your posture a bit, listen to the furnace bottom." Zhou Xuan said.

Mr. Bai Lu followed Zhou Xuan’s instruction, lowered his stance, and continued to listen.

Zhou Xuan saw him listen for a while, asked: "What did you hear?"

"Heard... heard the crisp sound of marbles, only this sound is very faint."

"That’s correct." Following the scene inside the furnace, Zhou Xuan analyzed with Alchemist Bai Lu: "Those droplets at the bottom of the furnace, aren’t quietly lying down, but lightly bouncing."

"If these droplets are unattended, they won’t refine into elixirs, they will be entirely scrapped, becoming wasted pills."

"However, if you exert some strength and lift those droplets, let them return to the Fire Eye, they can continue condensing into elixirs, reducing wastage."

"Is it really such logic?" Mr. Bai Lu felt like he entered a new world.

All the past centuries of elixirs were in vain, wasting lots of years.

"Learn... There’s great knowledge in it..." Zhou Xuan said very confidently, but after saying, felt something was off—wasn’t today supposed to learn alchemy, taught by Old Bai Lu, why did it reverse? Old Bai Lu learns quite eagerly.

"Forget it, continue teaching Old Bai... future alchemy career, relying on me alone isn’t enough."

Zhou Xuan thought of this and continued to teach Mr. Bai Lu, but regrettably,

regrettably, this wedding doll is made entirely of human desire condensed material, if it was like Danzi, condensed from both human desire and Wish Power, having the parts of Human Pill and Qi Pill, it would be—

—the perfect dual-hand teaching, teaching quality elevated.

...

Inside the pitch-black Xianhuo Palace, there’s a Silkworm Room.

The Silkworm Room’s walls are woven from silk,

inside, there are several accountants, and on the walls hang thousands of large and small copper plates.

The copper plates are imprinted with text, and these texts are constantly changing.

On one copper plate, the following words are written.

"East City Ancient Hall’s furnace, opened, Joy Demon Flesh and Blood materials input, refining Joy Guarding Pill"

"Pill Furnace opened, Alchemist Bai Lu input materials three pieces, prepared for igniting fire"

"Zhou Xuan paused igniting fire, placed Green and Red Fish into the furnace, replacing fire ignition"

This copper plate, almost like a literal live broadcast, displayed the alchemy scene of Zhou Xuan and Alchemist Bai Lu to the accountants of Xianhuo Palace.

The accountant had long been instructed to pay special attention to Zhou Xuan’s alchemy situation, he watched carefully, but this live broadcast, besides the two Green and Red Fish, nothing was special.

However, as the broadcast continued, one line of text made the accountant’s pupils dilate—

"—’Zhou Xuan claims he can see the scene inside the Pill Furnace, whether true, uncertain’"...