For the next month, He Yuan perfected his art of pill refining to the best of his thoroughly handicapped abilities. He had to expend more effort than most since his dantian was sealed.
Each step of the way, he had to directly absorb qi into his meridians, convert it to spiritual energy and then use it in the refining process. It was a good thing his meridians had higher qi holding capacity than most.
All the refining was of course done in the Alchemy peak. He Yuan had no cauldron neither could he afford one so he always snuck over there in the middle of the night to use the general one available to the inner sect disiciples.
He'd been caught numerous times by either the Alchemy peak master or her first disciple, Gu Long. The Alchemy peak master always looked for reasons to chase He Yuan away but Gu Ling ignored him.