Long Chen had given the refining process a high estimation of difficulty, but for the Nethergate Pill to start acting up now signified that he would need to use up even more Spiritual Strength to refine it.

The pill furnace rumbled as if some wild Magical Beast was trying to charge out.

Meng Qi immediately sent her Spiritual Strength pouring toward Long Chen. With her help, divine runes appeared all over the pill furnace, like chains sealing it tightly.

However, the chains had just appeared when black runes appeared as well. Like beetles, they began to bite and tear into the runic chains.

“What damn thing is this?!” Long Chen jumped, never having encountered such a thing.

Those black runes were like cockroaches. They were only an inch long, but as they tore into his runic chains, he felt his Spiritual Strength vanishing from his control as if it was being consumed...