The pill furnaces exploded!
Not just a handful, but all one hundred of them, one after another in a rapid-fire chain reaction.
It happened in a single breath of time, and despite the fact that Bai Xiaochun had been prepared, he simply wasn't fast enough to contain the effects of a hundred pill furnaces all exploding at the same time! The force unleashed was shocking. Thankfully, he had his deva cultivation base, and very tough skin, otherwise... he would either have been killed, or at the least, badly injured.
"Noooo!" he screamed. His immortal's cave shook violently, and yet, that was not what worried Bai Xiaochun most. Most hair-raising was... the thick black smoke that blasted out at high speed in all directions.
The medicinal efficacy of this smoke vastly surpassed that of the previous smoke. Because of the deva power that Bai Xiaochun surrounded himself with, he was protected from its effects... but others nearby did not have that luxury.