Shang Xiangyu, hands covered in blood, turned his head with an indifferent expression.
As Shang Xiangyu turned his head, Yin Cong, standing on the wooden ladder, turned the color of pig liver and almost fell off the ladder in fright.
Even Duan Rong, Chen Hu, and Pan Yong all looked grim.
Shang Xiangyu had actually killed his own brother and turned him into pulp, extracting his blood...
Duan Rong’s eyelid twitched wildly. He had already understood what Shang Xiangyu intended to do—he was going to use his own brother for alchemy.
Could this be the method he thought of to solve the problem of the furnace explosion?
A wave of intense nausea rose from deep within Duan Rong’s body, and if he hadn’t suppressed it, he would have already vomited.
It was not the thick bloody smell in the hot air that nauseated him.
But rather Shang Xiangyu’s madness and malevolence, assaulting the defenses of his heart...
It was a collapse of the internal order, bringing with it a profound sense of nausea...
Pan Yong was already the calmest among them, but when Shang Xiangyu walked over to him with the Great Cauldron full of blood, he was still taken aback for a moment.
Shang Xiangyu lifted the Cauldron above his shoulders with his blood-soaked hands, walked to the Pill Furnace, and looked at Pan Yong, shouting coldly, "Open the medicine hatch!"
Pan Yong shivered, woke as if from a dream, and immediately used his beast-hide-gloved right hand to open the scalding lid of the medicine hatch.
"Move aside!" Shang Xiangyu commanded again.
Pan Yong stepped aside.
Shang Xiangyu took half a step to the side, lifted the Great Cauldron, and slowly tilted it, pouring the blood inside with a whoosh into the Pill Furnace.
Once Shang Xiangyu had poured all the blood from the Cauldron, he placed the now-empty Cauldron behind him with a thump, then slowly walked to the circle of Water Jade to peer inside the furnace.
Pan Yong, after Shang Xiangyu put down the Cauldron, went over and re-covered the medicine hatch.
Inside the Pill Furnace, a bloody mist filled and roiled...
Shang Xiangyu turned his head toward Pan Yong and said, "Go crush the Black Blood Fruit."
Upon hearing this, Pan Yong took off his beast-hide gloves and slowly walked to the big stone pot in the corner. As he approached, his eyelid twitched at the Great Cauldron not far from the stone pot, which contained the remains of Shang Xin, pressed into pulp.
Pan Yong opened the lid of the stone pot to reveal two Black Blood Fruits at the dark bottom, their red fluorescence flickering dimly like two beating hearts...
Pan Yong’s eyes moved slightly, and he turned to ask, "Master Shang, should both Black Blood Fruits be crushed?"
"Crush both of them!" Shang Xiangyu replied without looking back from staring intently at the furnace through the Water Jade.
Upon hearing this, Pan Yong placed both Black Blood Fruits at the bottom of the pot into a medicine jar and began gently crushing them with a pestle.
Duan Rong stood on the wooden ladder, feeling a slight stir in his heart.
Last time during alchemy, a single Black Blood Fruit had caused the furnace to explode. This time, Shang Xiangyu intended to use two of them.
Duan Rong watched the Pill Furnace closely, ready to jump away at the slightest tremor. Last time, the medicinal potency from just one Black Blood Fruit had rendered his Inner Strength temporarily lost.
This time, with two Black Blood Fruits, if the furnace exploded, it could very well kill him.
At this moment, Pan Yong was holding the medicine jar, standing beside the medicine hatch, waiting for Shang Xiangyu’s command.
Shang Xiangyu stood in front of the Water Jade, watching the blood mist inside the Pill Furnace billow and the thick bloody smell wafting through the cave...
Shang Xiangyu suddenly glanced at Pan Yong and said, "Add the Black Blood Fruit!"
Upon hearing this, Pan Yong immediately opened the medicine hatch and used a wooden spoon to pour the juice from the medicine jar into the Pill Furnace.
With the addition of the Black Blood Fruit, after a few breaths, faint strands of light began to emerge in the thick, rolling blood mist...
Those strands of light, visible to the naked eye, grew denser and swirled through the blood mist...
An expression mixing excitement with tension flashed across Shang Xiangyu’s eyes.
As the strands of light in the blood mist grew denser, the Pill Furnace suddenly began to tremble.
At the instant the furnace shook, Duan Rong leaped off the wooden structure, landing over a dozen feet away from the furnace. Chen Hu also darted out almost simultaneously, jumping over half a dozen feet away.
Seeing Duan Rong suddenly jump aside, Yin Cong finally reacted and was about to leap down when he suddenly heard Shang Xiangyu coldly say, "Don’t move! It won’t explode!"
As Shang Xiangyu’s voice landed, the mildly trembling Pill Furnace really settled down, no longer vibrating.
Yin Cong wiped a cold sweat off his forehead and exhaled a deep, murky breath.
Shang Xiangyu cast a glance at Duan Rong and Chen Hu and said, "Return. Put all the remaining medicine into the furnace!"
Duan Rong leaped like a falling leaf, landing softly back on the wooden ladder. The technique of his Body Technique at that moment made both Pan Yong and Chen Hu’s faces change.
The four of them added all the various bottles, jars, and remaining herbs by the Pill Furnace into the furnace, then stepped back to the empty space over a dozen feet away.
Meanwhile, Shang Xiangyu continued to stand by the Pill Furnace, watching the interior with a look of ecstatic joy.
Inside the Pill Furnace, the strands of light and the blood mist began slowly dissipating...
With the gradual thinning of the blood mist, the strands of light that had filled the furnace also vanished...
Shang Xiangyu knew the Blood Pill was about to form!
He slowly walked to a corner and pressed down on the large black stone where the molten lava gushed out.
With the large black stone, like a sarcophagus, pressing down, the molten lava, like iron liquid, stopped pouring out.
Without the addition of new scalding lava, the surface of the lava in the channel and the pit began to cover with ash, like a layer of scum, gradually covering the top layer of the lava...