The Hehuan Sect cultivates alchemy; my senior sister helps me refine alchemy throughout the world.

Shen Yifei threw the gnawed lamb bone into the alchemy furnace, wiped his mouth, and began to make plans in his mind.

That Blood Furnace was the core of the Blood Soul Sect's formation, and also Yin Wuxie's lifeline. If the core wasn't destroyed and the restrictions weren't broken, Liu Mengli couldn't escape, and he couldn't run away either.

We need to think of a way to smash the Blood Furnace.

But that thing was three zhang tall, cast in bronze, and its body was covered with skulls; just looking at it was terrifying.

Smash it with the Cauldron of All Things? What if you fail to break it and end up damaging it instead? You'll have no one to blame but yourself.

Shen Yifei paced around the alchemy room twice, when a thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

The Blood Furnace was forged from the blood and flesh of nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine people; it's an eerie thing. Yin Wuxie said that only when she personally forged it could the furnace fire ignite. This means that the Blood Furnace is bound to Yin Wuxie's soul, just like his contract with Liu Mengli.

If the Blood Furnace could be separated from Yin Wuxie's soul, then that thing would be nothing but a pile of scrap metal.

How to determine the outcome? Use the Myriad Things Cauldron.

The Cauldron of All Things can refine all things, and perhaps it can also refine the Blood Furnace. If the Blood Furnace is put into the Cauldron of All Things for refining, Yin Wuxie's soul will be damaged. At best, his cultivation will regress; at worst, he will die on the spot.

The Cauldron of All Things has been used to refine humans and demonic beasts, but never anything that is not alive.

However, how will you know if something will work if you don't try?

Wait one more day, we'll do it tomorrow night!

Shen Yifei had prepared several packets of sleeping potion in advance to use against the others.

The next day, Yin Wuxie came to the alchemy room as usual, ate a freshly made Qi Gathering Pill, yawned twice, rubbed her eyes, and left. Shen Yifei noticed that her steps were not as steady as before, and she even tripped on the threshold when she reached the door.

Shen Yifei took out the Myriad Things Cauldron from his ring.

He stared at the beast for a few seconds, feeling that its mouth was a little wider open than before.

"Mengli." He probed his consciousness into the cauldron.

"I'm here." Liu Mengli's voice was still intermittent, but much clearer than a few days ago. "Are you finally going to make your move?"

"Tonight at midnight. Yin Wuxie will be meditating, A Qi will be guarding outside the door, and everyone else will be asleep. That will be the best time to make our move."

"Are you confident? That Blood Furnace was forged with the blood and flesh of nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine people; it's incredibly sinister. Can your Cauldron of All Things subdue it?"

How will you know if you don't try?

Liu Mengli was silent for a while, then said, "If you die, the contract will automatically terminate, and I will be free. Thinking about it that way, I actually kind of hope you die."

"Then you just wait, you won't die anytime soon."

Shen Yifei carefully put away the Myriad Things Cauldron, sat cross-legged in front of the alchemy furnace, and pretended to refine a batch of Qi Gathering Pills. When A Qi brought in a plate of mutton, he was filling a jade bottle with pills.

"Today's portion, one hundred pieces, please count them." He pushed the jade bottle over.

Ah Qi didn't order anything, but directly put the jade bottle into his storage bag, sat down on the chair, and stared at him.

Why are you staring at me like that?

"The leader is in a bad mood today; he went crazy just now."

Shen Yifei's heart tightened. "Why?"

"I don't know. Maybe the medicine is taking effect, and she can't control her temper." Ah Qi paused. "Did you add anything to the pills you gave her?"

Shen Yifei was startled. "What did they add? What else could they add to a Qi Gathering Pill? Aphrodisiacs?"

Ah Qi stared at him for several seconds. "You'd better not try anything funny. Although the sect leader's temper has changed, his cultivation hasn't. He's at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage. Killing someone like you, a Foundation Establishment cultivator, is like crushing an ant."

"I know." Shen Yifei stood up and stretched his limbs. "Miss Qi, are you on night duty tonight?"

"It's worth it, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing, just asking."

Ah Qi glanced at him, said nothing more, stood up and left. The door closed behind her, and Shen Yifei heard her footsteps fading into the distance.

He leaned against the alchemy furnace, closed his eyes, and went over his plans for the evening in his mind.

At midnight, Yin Wuxie began to meditate. Aqi stood guard outside the door. The Blood Furnace was in the main hall, about two hundred paces from the alchemy room.

He didn't know how long it would take to smash the furnace, but the noise would definitely be considerable. Although Yin Wuxie's mind was damaged, his cultivation was still intact, and he would arrive in just a few breaths after hearing the commotion.

Shen Yifei waited in the alchemy room until midnight.

Ah Qi remained guarding the door. After Shen Yifei waited for her to fall asleep, he gave her some more sleeping pills.

He walked two hundred steps in the time it takes to brew a cup of tea.

We've arrived at the main hall.

The palace door was ajar, leaving a crack. Shen Yifei peered through the crack; the Blood Furnace stood in the very center of the hall.

The black flames at the bottom of the furnace were still burning, hissing and licking the furnace walls, illuminating the entire hall in a flickering light.

Yin Wuxie is not here.

He gripped the Cauldron of All Things tightly, took a deep breath, and poured spiritual energy into it.

The Cauldron of All Things vibrated in his hand, emitting a soft "hum".

Shen Yifei lifted the cauldron and smashed it towards the blood furnace.

A muffled "bang!"

Shen Yifei looked down and saw that the monster in the Cauldron of All Things was biting its jaws hard against the Blood Furnace.

The beast's mouth opened wide and began to devour the blood furnace. Like a python swallowing its prey, it sucked it in little by little.

The blood furnace was distorted by the suction, its body twisted, and the skull even began to scream!

At the same time, Shen Yifei felt the spiritual energy in his dantian being rapidly absorbed by the Myriad Things Cauldron. With his Foundation Establishment cultivation level, he didn't have much spiritual energy to begin with, and at this rate, it would be completely drained in less than half an incense stick's time.

Liu Mengli's voice became urgent, "Stop absorbing my spiritual energy! Don't let it absorb it!"

"It can't be stopped! It's sucking relentlessly!"

Footsteps came from the corridor outside the main hall, fast and urgent. Shen Yifei turned his head and saw a blood-red light shining through the crack in the door.

That was Yin Wuxie's spiritual energy fluctuation; she still sensed the anomaly here!

The door to the main hall was slammed open with a palm strike, and Yin Wuxie stood in the doorway.

Her blood-red eyes widened as she stared intently at the blood furnace being devoured by the Cauldron of All Things.

"What...what are you doing?"

Shen Yifei gripped the Cauldron of All Things, feeling that the spiritual energy in his dantian was almost depleted. Half of the Blood Furnace had been swallowed, and the remaining part was still struggling, the screams of the skull making his eardrums ache.

He turned around and grinned at Yin Wuxie: "Master, your furnace is being disobedient, let me discipline it for you."

Upon hearing this, Yin Wuxie's extremely beautiful face twisted with anger!

She raised her hand and slapped him.

A blood-red palm print condensed in the air, carrying a foul stench, and struck towards Shen Yifei's chest.

A furious strike from a peak Nascent Soul cultivator would kill even a Golden Core cultivator on the spot, let alone a Foundation Establishment cultivator like Shen Yifei.

Shen Yifei tried to dodge, but he couldn't move; the pressure of the palm print pinned him to the spot.

The palm print drew closer, a foul stench filled the air, and Shen Yifei could even see the dense blood vessels on the print.

It's over, it's really over this time. Shen Yifei watched in despair as the blood palm drew ever closer!

Just as the palm print was about to be pressed onto his chest, the Cauldron of All Things suddenly trembled.

The monster on the cauldron opened its mouth to its maximum and swallowed the remaining half of the Blood Furnace in one gulp. Immediately afterwards, a beam of black light shot out from the cauldron's mouth and collided with the blood-red palm print.

"boom!"

With a deafening roar, the palm print shattered under the black light, dissipating into a mist of blood. Yin Wuxie groaned, staggering back three steps, a trickle of blood escaping from the corner of his mouth.

Shen Yifei was also in pain. The moment the black light shattered the palm print, he felt as if his dantian had been squeezed hard, causing him to bend over in pain and almost vomit up the mutton he had eaten that night.