The orange-red flame is dancing.

A medicine scent wafts from the Grade Two alchemy furnace on which the Kyuuki Beast is engraved. Lin Luoran's one hand continually puts the fire Wakan into the furnace while the other hand makes the gesture of spells to lift the lid and put Butterflybush Flower in it.

What she is making is "Foundation-Laying Bolus", the Grade Four middle-class bolus. It is not like making Grade One Fostering Qi Bolus, which only needs to put a ...