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A strong burst of energy exploded from within him, causing everything around him to suddenly change. A mist of steam appeared, lasting only a breath before disappearing.
Yan Xiaobao slumped down, wiping the sweat from his forehead. Despite practicing the Waterswamp Kingdom every day since obtaining it, this was all he could achieve.
"I need to keep pushing forward!" he thought. After taking a short break, he finished his daily training routine and once again pondered the problem of the explosive pill furnace. Over the past six months of practice, he had succeeded in using some Third-level Spiritual Medicine, but most of his attempts ended in failure.
Sitting there dejectedly for a while, he finally came up with a theory.
"Maybe once the potency of the medicine increases to a certain level, it becomes unstable, leading to explosions?" Subsequently, he hurried out, exchanged some merits for another pill furnace, and then returned to continue his concoction.
