This grayish-white stone furnace was precisely the one he had obtained from the Monkey King.

At this moment, the Monkey Wine inside the stone furnace had long been emptied, but due to years of impregnation, the furnace still emitted a faint fragrance of wine.

Han Li took a deep breath, and his hands moved quickly, forming several strange hand gestures in succession.

Streams of azure light flew out from his palms one after another, landing on the grayish-white stone furnace. The eight large runes engraved on the furnace's surface immediately flashed with silver light, emitting bursts of radiance.

"As expected..." Han Li was overjoyed.

The mantra for refining treasures he had obtained from Lin Jiu was indeed useful for this stone furnace.

A glint flashed in his eyes, and he continued to cast hand gestures while chanting a dense series of incantations.

The runes on the grayish-white stone furnace shone brighter and brighter. The furnace's body emitted faint cracking sounds, and vein-like patterns emerged on its surface, revealing a dazzling silver light from within.

Within the silver light, pieces of grayish-white stone skin fell off and dropped to the ground. The original size of the stone furnace rapidly decreased, shrinking to half its original size in a short while.

When all the silver light completely dissipated, the original stone furnace was no more. Instead, there was a silver pill furnace engraved with complex patterns. The original eight large runes were still present, but they had become more refined and intricate.

"A pill furnace of such quality should be greatly beneficial to the refinement of pills..."

Han Li composed himself, observing the texture and aura of the furnace. He discovered that it was in no way inferior to Ping Yaozi's golden pill furnace, and could not help but murmur to himself.

With a thought, a silver light flashed beside him, and a silver flame little person less than two feet tall emerged from within. It stumbled and jumped to the ground, immediately attracted by the pill furnace in front of it. It paused to observe for a few moments, then looked back at Han Li. Then, it turned and began to circle the furnace.

Han Li smiled slightly and greeted it with a mental command. The silver flame little person understood, and immediately leaped onto the lid of the pill furnace. Its round face suddenly puffed out, and it spat out a huge flame that was extremely disproportionate to its size.

The silver flame drew an arc in the air and flew directly below the pill furnace, bursting into flames with a "whoosh."

As the silver flames surged violently, a scorching heat wave began to surge throughout the entire secret chamber.

After a moment, spiritual patterns on the silver pill furnace lit up, gradually turning crimson. The entire pill furnace slowly floated into the air, swaying slightly.

The silver flame little person sitting on the lid seemed to find it very interesting. It moved its buttocks to the edge of the lid, dangling its slender legs in the air, shaking them as the pill furnace swayed.

Seeing this, Han Li waved his hand, and more than ten kinds of spiritual herbs, such as Candle Lichen Grass, flew out of the storage bracelet and suspended in the air.

His hands came together, rubbing in the air, and the more than ten kinds of spiritual herbs turned into powder with a "poof."

Then, Han Li pointed with two fingers, lifting upwards towards the pill furnace. The lid under the silver flame little person's buttocks suddenly lifted up and flew away.

Under the traction of an invisible force, the powder suspended in the air flew into the pill furnace, and the opened lid slammed back into place with a "click."

Immediately, the eight runes on the silver pill furnace lit up one after another, each releasing colorful radiance.

The silver flames below the pill furnace suddenly seemed to be restrained by an invisible force. The flames twisted and turned, forming a small flame tornado that enveloped the entire pill furnace.

Seeing this, the silver flame little person on the pill furnace suddenly blurred and transformed into a silver firebird, plunging into the bottom of the pill furnace and merging with the flame tornado.

With a soft "boom."

The flame tornado suddenly shook, and the scorching power emitted from it instantly surged several times over.

Seeing this, Han Li's eyes lit up.

Judging from the current scene, the time to refine this furnace of pills would probably be shortened a lot compared to before. He just didn't know what the success rate of pill formation would be.

Time passed little by little. Under Han Li's timely use of the True Essence Treasure Wheel, colorful light flowed over the pill furnace, but the entire secret chamber did not smell any medicinal fragrance.

After about seven or eight hours, the colorful light on the pill furnace suddenly converged and dissipated completely. The furnace body returned to its silver-white color, with only some areas still slightly red from residual heat.

The silver flames rolled up, contracting together, and transformed back into a silver flame little person, flying out from under the pill furnace and landing on Han Li's shoulder.

With a "clang," the silver pill furnace landed again.

Han Li walked forward with a slight frown. Light flashed on his hand, and he waved it gently.

The lid of the silver pill furnace opened, and an extremely rich medicinal fragrance immediately escaped from it, filling the entire secret chamber.

Han Li leaned over and looked into the furnace. He saw sixteen round, light golden pills lying quietly inside, with strands of faint white mist lingering around them, indicating that the heat had not yet dissipated.

"I never expected that this furnace would have such effects, not only greatly shortening the time to refine pills, but also having such a high success rate of pill formation. It's simply unbelievable..." Han Li couldn't help but exclaim.

Suppressing the joy in his heart, he placed this furnace of pills into a jade bottle and waved his hand, taking out another batch of medicinal materials.

He wanted to strike while the iron was hot and refine more pills.

...

Several months later, the silver firelight in the secret chamber converged. A silver firebird flew out from under the alchemy furnace, transformed into a silver flame little person, landed on the ground, and hopped to Han Li's feet. It grabbed his clothes and climbed onto his shoulder in a few moments.

Han Li's face was slightly weary. He turned his head and smiled at it, then went to the silver alchemy furnace.

With a wave of his palm, the furnace lid flew off to the side, and a rich medicinal fragrance immediately wafted out.

Han Li grabbed the pills inside and examined them in front of his eyes.

The pills were all about the size of longan fruit pits, with a green, transparent appearance. Because the residual heat had not dissipated, they appeared to be surrounded by a spiritual aura, making them very extraordinary.

"Not bad. Eleven pills were refined in this batch, and the success rate has improved a lot..." He turned his hand and put the pills into a white jade bottle, muttering to himself.

After a moment, he suddenly thought of something, sat down cross-legged, flipped his hand, and took out the bull-headed mask, putting it on his face.

Accompanied by a burst of azure light, a huge array disk emerged on the wall.

Han Li's eyes narrowed, and he carefully scanned down the task column on the left side of the array disk.

After a long while, he withdrew his gaze and took off the mask again.

"It seems what was coming, has come after all.” Han Li sighed, his expression becoming solemn.

Just now, he had discovered that many tasks previously posted by Lin Seventeen in the Unfeeling Alliance had disappeared. This was clearly not a normal task withdrawal. Rather, he himself, or rather, his Unfeeling Alliance mask, had a problem.

With a thought, he contacted the divine sense imprints left at the entrance of the Secret Realm and the cliff wall of the Thunderstorm Ocean, and was relieved to find that they were all safe and sound.

Under such daily vigilance, time flew by, and more than ten years passed.

During this time, he spent half of his time refining pills and also condensed a lot of crystal grains through the Palm Heaven Bottle.

On this day, on the plaza in front of Han Li's cave dwelling, dozens of young men and women dressed in Candle Dragon Dao disciple costumes flew from all directions one after another and landed in front of the mansion gate.

Han Li stood on the stone steps of the gate, his eyes swept over everyone, and he called out several names:

"Hu Zhen, Luo Tang, Xin Sui..."

"Elder Li..." Seven or eight young men and women stepped out from the crowd, walked to the steps, and bowed to Han Li.

Without exception, these people were all at the peak of the Refining Void stage, and were the most outstanding group of disciples currently stationed here.

"I will close the mountain and cultivate in seclusion for a period of time. All matters in the Secret Realm will be temporarily handled by you. If there is nothing important, there is no need to report to me." Han Li instructed expressionlessly.

"Yes, sir." The people responded in unison.

"Here is a secret talisman for you. If there is a situation that you cannot handle, just inject spiritual power to release it. The secret talisman will automatically fly into the cave and inform me." Han Li said.

"Yes." The crowd responded again.

"Please rest assured, Elder Li. We will definitely live up to your entrustment." One of the older, dark-skinned young men stepped forward, took the secret talisman with both hands, and said.

"Alright, go down." Han Li nodded with satisfaction and instructed.

After the crowd saluted again, they all flew away with their escape lights.

Half a day later, the mountain where Han Li was located shook, and pillars of azure light rose into the sky, merging with each other in the high altitude, turning into a huge azure light curtain that enveloped the entire mountain.

Inside a newly opened giant mountain cave on the mountain, a brand-new fire pit was built near the stone wall on the left. On the stone table next to the fire pit were seven or eight kinds of spiritual materials of various shapes.

The most conspicuous of them were a dozen pieces of dark golden metal the size of human heads and a piece of white stone the size of a fist. The former had many dense petal-like patterns embedded on the surface, while the latter was pure white and faintly emitted a sandalwood fragrance.

These two were the Huku Pattern Essence Gold and the Langxian Cloud Stone.

Han Li stood next to the fire pit, waved his hand, and took the Langxian Cloud Stone into his hand, gently stroking it and feeling the warm touch in his palm.

In recent years, while refining pills, he has also been inquiring about the news of the Candle Dragon Dao. Based on the clues collected from all aspects, he roughly inferred that Gu Jie should not be lingering near the Candle Dragon Dao now.

"Hopefully, he was blocked back by a Golden Immortal in the sect." He guessed in his heart.

Despite this, Han Li still did not dare to underestimate the anger of a Golden Immortal, so he did not relax his guard against him.

Now that he had refined a lot of pills, he planned to start taking pills soon to resume cultivation.

But before that, he had to re-refine the Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords.

With a point of his finger, a cheerful chirping sound rang from his body. The Refined Flame Firebird rushed out from his fingertip and flew straight into the fire pit, burning with a "whoosh."

Inside the fire pit, silver flames surged, and a scorching heat wave surged out.