The purple-gold pill furnace turned slowly in the air.

A cultivator who understood nothing whatever of medicine somehow carried a certain air of mastery as he refined Heavenly Phoenix Pills.

With practised ease Shen Yi refined out the medicinal potency, then added the Gold-Fire Sparrow demons' blood essence.

He felt the change inside the furnace.

The quality of the Gold-Fire Sparrows' blood essence was plainly far below the Crimson-Eyed Mysterious Phoenix's — but on the strength of their deeper cultivation, the effect was actually rather better.

A dozen days and more passed in the snap of a finger.

Shen Yi held the Parting-Flame steady, and the blood essence of all four sparrow-demons melded wholly into the medicinal potency.

In an instant a familiar radiance spilled out of the purple-gold pill furnace.

A crowd of phantom phoenix shapes wheeled about it.

As the furnace opened, shaft after shaft of golden light burst out and fell into Shen Yi's palm.

Seventeen pills formed!

This batch had well and truly exhausted the Heavenly Phoenix Pill ingredients Shen Yi had taken from the Fourth Den.

He closed his eyes and breathed in their fragrance.

It should be enough.

Shen Yi put a Heavenly Phoenix Pill in his mouth, opened the panel, and poured demon lifespan into it.

【Return-to-Void · Heavenly Phoenix Undying True Body: Minor Accomplishment】

【Year One — you swallow a Heavenly Phoenix Pill, digest the medicinal potency within it, and draw it into the phoenix egg in your body, mending the cracks upon it……】

Shen Yi had taken heavy wounds in his last exchange with the old dog, and again with the Bihai toad.

They had simply never shown on his body; the phoenix egg had borne all of it. The thing was something like a second life — it had earned the name Heavenly Phoenix Undying.

Burning through the medicinal potency was easy enough and cost little time.

The bulk of the demon lifespan went into the golden phoenix egg itself, which needed long ages to grow.

Shen Yi sat cross-legged, swallowing one Heavenly Phoenix Pill after another.

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