Dark Circles was holding up its front paw and calling out "awoo awoo," trying to get the master’s attention.
Suddenly, from below the Alchemy Furnace, among the roaring flas, a strange "sizzle" sound arose.
The originally red flas abruptly turned black, the fire surged!
Huge black tongues of fla crazily licked upward, engulfing the entire Alchemy Furnace!
Dark Circles, Black Tail, and Black Nose all panicked... The master wanted the fire to change from big to dium, but instead, it grew larger. What about the dicine inside the furnace?
After everyone worked so hard, what would happen to the resources invested?
The three foxes anxiously grabbed burning sticks, trying to poke into the fire and pull out so logs to reduce the fla height.
Just as they poked the burning sticks into the fire pit...
The black flas surged again, expanding outward and swallowing up Dark Circles, Black Nose, and Black Tail, the three foxes!
"Awoo?"
Sudden unforeseen event!
Big Head, Flying Legs, and others who were nearby quickly ran away.
Fox apprentices at a distance all widened their eyes, ears erect!
How did the furnace fire suddenly get out of control?
How did Black Nose, Dark Circles, and Black Tail get swallowed by the fire?
...
Inside the black flas, Dark Circles, Black Nose, and Black Tail did not feel hot. Instead, the three foxes were held by the master.
"So daring?
"When you saw the flas out of control, why didn’t you quickly run away?"
The black flas obscured all their vision, "whoosh whoosh" resounded as they surged wildly!
But all flas, upon encountering the master’s figure, imdiately detoured around!
Safe?
Dark Circles touched its chest, as if feeling its heart pounding wildly.
The three foxes looked at each other, then all pressed their heads against the master’s chest, tearfully "woo woo woo". Over the past three years, they almost forgot the sensation of escaping death. Unexpectedly today, they felt it once more.
Suddenly, Dark Circles raised its head, eyes wide, mouth open, face panicked, pointing towards the Alchemy Furnace!
They were safe, but what about the dicine?
What about the dicine?
"The dicine is fine."
Master touched the heads of the three.
Opened his mouth, "hoo," exhaling a fla!
This fla was actually erald green, a fresh jade green, as if carrying the fragrance of dicine, flying towards the black flas that obscured vision!
Black t green, and the master’s erald green instantly spread out, quickly diffusing, turning all the black flas into erald green!
Then, with a wave of the master’s hand, the fla turned erald green shot up into the sky!
Whoosh...
Amidst the sound of wind and fire, above the Alchemy Furnace, a pillar of fla soared skyward, and was blown away in the high altitude, dispersing into wisps of smoke in the distant sky.
Looking again at the fire pit below the Alchemy Furnace, the fire still burned, but had already turned to a dium fla.
All the fox apprentices present looked towards the master, looked at the three fellow apprentices in the master’s arms, ears drooping, heads relaxed, exhaling a breath of tension.
...
After the scare with no danger, the alchemy process continued.
Bai Mo sat back on the fishing deck chair, commanding the apprentices, controlling the dicine in the furnace, while recalling the out-of-control furnace fire just now...
"What exactly was that pool of black goo?"
Bai Mo recalled, two years ago, one Missing Corner Lotus Leaf grew on Fox Mountain, and hidden in a leaf vein, was this thing. That ti, he was powerless against it, and the dicinal soup prepared over ten days was all contaminated.
Luckily this ti, his control over Pill Fire had improved, successfully suppressing the contamination.
"What exactly is it?
"Impurity from the ground?
"Toxin from the soil?
"A remnant from the Ancient Immortal Dynasty ten thousand years ago?"
Bai Mo couldn’t figure it out, so he set it aside for now.
"In future alchemy, not just raw materials, even the firewood will need an additional inspection process."
...
The mountain wind blew through, while the sky over Fox Mountain gradually darkened.
More and more foxes participating in alchemy completed their work, tidying up garbage, organizing tools, or enjoying the commotion nearby.
Finally, before dusk arrived, they saw the Alchemy Furnace’s fire go out, slled the hot dicinal fragrance floating in the air, and heard the master say, "Alright, the alchemy is finished, a complete success!"
Instantly, the plaza echoed with the cheering and jumping of a large number of foxes.
"Awoo awoo awoo!"
"Ying ying ying!"
"Ying ying ying!"
Bai Mo smiled broadly, climbed the scaffold, and opened the furnace lid to look inside.
A group of fox apprentices crowded around, fluffy heads forming circle after circle, peeking inside the Alchemy Furnace.
Inside the furnace, only half a furnace of liquid remained. On the liquid’s surface, a Fire Lotus floated, emitting light, its petals transford into a colorful glazed hue, brilliant like Flowing Fire.
"Then I’ll just take it directly."
Bai Mo pinched his nose, opened his mouth, took a deep breath!
Below, the Glazed Fire Lotus petals indeed transford into flows of fire, flying up, out of the Alchemy Furnace, and into Bai Mo’s mouth!
In an instant, the Flowing Fire was swallowed, the Fire Lotus lost its petals, leaving only the flower base, sinking into the liquid in the furnace.
Bai Mo straightened up, lifted his head, touched his belly, and burped warmly.
This fiery Warming Fire Soup entered the Dantian Secret Storage. It could be felt that the Dantian Secret Storage was slowly being altered and expanded.
"Pretty potent.
"One step closer to Sequence Six!"
The foxes all smiled, on the plaza, by the Alchemy Furnace, each fox jumping around "awoo awoo awoo," "ying ying ying" non-stop!
The master has beco even more powerful! Fox Mountain has beco much safer!
...
Gusts of wind blew from the deep dark night sky, sweeping over every pavilion and corner of Fox Mountain.
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