It's Been a While

Baek Cheong looked inside without crossing the threshold.

The expanded alchemy chamber had the clan's alchemists seated in groups of three.

When one person refined the medicinal materials with water and wood qi, the person opposite linked their medicinal properties with fire and earth qi.

The remaining person handled metal qi and made up for the energy the first two had missed.

It was a method in which three cultivators with three spirit roots each handled separate attributes, covering all five elements without fail.

Within the five pill furnaces, five-colored essence circulated at different speeds.

Yak-seon walked between the pill furnaces, rapping his staff against the floor and shouting orders.

“Isn't the water qi getting ahead? Receive it with wood qi before the medicinal properties of the Azure Wood Vine freeze!”

The alchemists in charge of the furnace on the left hurriedly moved their hands.

The wavering essence barely returned to the path of the Taiji, but its color had already grown cloudy...