The body of the furnace is engraved with a Blood Sea Map. In the scroll, the blood sea churns, corpses rise and fall, countless twisted faces struggle, wail, and sink in the blood waves. These faces are male and female, old and young, some ferocious, some fearful, some in despair, some mad — each face was a life sacrificed when the pill furnace was cast.

On the two sides of the furnace hang human bone bells. As the temperature of the pill fire changes, they produce different sounds — sometimes like a baby’s cry, sometimes like a woman’s sob, sometimes like an old man’s sigh, sometimes like a warrior’s roar. The sounds change endlessly and are never repeated.

Three blood-red poisonous snakes coil around the three legs of the furnace, each as thick as an adult’s arm, their heads raised, tongues flickering, eyes blood-red.

Whenever their master, the Red Robe Guest, is conducting alchemy, the three blood poison snakes spit out blood poison flames to boost the pill fire.

The Red Robe Guest is a Loose Cultivator, cultivating the Blood Demon Technique, feeding on blood, seeking enlightenment through killing. Unfortunately, his talent is limited, and although his demon skills advance rapidly, he has hit a bottleneck and cannot progress an inch further, falling into extreme ruminations.

The chance for change came with a pill scripture named the Blood Pill Scripture.

This is an alchemy secret manual left by an ancient demon cultivator, recording methods of using human blood, bones, and souls as ingredients to refine various blood pills.

Especially the blood demon pill within, which uses human blood, bones, and souls as ingredients. Consuming it allows temporary entry into a blood demon state, boosting combat power tenfold, but the cost is a three-day, three-night period of weakness afterwards, akin to a waste.

The Red Robe Guest extends his hand, caressing the surface of the Blood Sea Poison Snake Furnace while thinking of the Nanming Fire Furnace.

The Blood Sea Poison Snake Furnace suits him better, and it was something he forced others to create, referring to the content of the Blood Pill Scripture.

"But if I had the Nanming Fire Furnace, I could immediately rise to the upper echelons of the sect with it."

"Rather than being here, as if in exile!"

"With the sect’s backing, I could openly kill, conduct alchemy!!"

... 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

At the Main Mountain Gate of the Myriad Images Sect, the Bluestone Cave Mansion.

Cultivation Secret Room.

Sun Lingtong: "Little Zhuo, have you really decided to go all out to compete for that Nanming Fire Furnace?"

Ning Zhuo nodded: "Boss, my alchemy skills are still very weak."

"To enhance this craft, I must personally refine, trying repeatedly."

"This is different from my artifact refining and array formation, which have the blessing of realms. Alchemy requires gradual improvement step by step."

Ning Zhuo shifted the conversation: "But if I have the Nanming Fire Furnace and the Vermilion Bird Artifact Spirit, the aspect of alchemy would be immediately reinforced."

"This reinforcement is almost perfect!"

"Over a thousand years ago, the Nanming Fire Furnace was already born. Since then, it has continuously handled an ocean-like volume of elixir tasks on Danxia Peak."

"Even without me, the Vermilion Bird Artifact Spirit alone can independently conduct alchemy."

"In the future, as my alchemy skills improve, the Vermilion Bird Artifact Spirit will help me control the heat, perceive the medicinal materials, and so on."

"Even now, with the Vermilion Bird Artifact Spirit’s guidance, my alchemy skills can rapidly improve."

Sun Lingtong nodded, persuaded by Ning Zhuo’s words.

"The Nanming Fire Furnace is worth your full effort to pursue."

"I’ve calculated, Little Zhuo, you actually have quite a few chips."

"Firstly, you possess Jia Luanzhen’s lifetime experience and memory. Recently, your alchemy skills have progressively climbed with a solid foundation."

"Secondly, you have a deep understanding of Spiritual Nature. You possess the Cremation Prajna Spirit Liberation Sutra, a Buddhist Secret Method that allows the burning of all things with fire to extract the Spiritual Nature. This might enable you to burn other substances to enhance the Vermilion Bird Artifact Spirit’s Spiritual Nature, thereby seeking its submission."

"Thirdly, your Five Elements Realm is very high. Both the Vermilion Bird Artifact Spirit and the Nanming Fire Furnace strongly relate to the fire attribute. You also have the Fire Element Heart Temple’s blessing upon yourself."

"Your chances of seizing the Nanming Fire Furnace are significant!"