Disgrace! Utter disgrace!
I, the dignified last Saintess of the Jiuli Immortal Sect, a forr Great Ability of the Ergence Stage. How dare a re, broken alchemy furnace look down on ? An outrageous insult to my very spirit!
After many consecutive days of alchemy, Jiang Yourong’s spirit power was already overdrawn. Now, being scorned by an alchemy furnace made her very spirit fade even further from the rage.
"I... I cannot bear this grievance!" Enraged to the brink of explosion, Jiang Yourong turned and gazed at Jiang Ling’er with a ghostly look. "Ling’er, what did you just see?"
What did I see? I saw Auntie, your alchemy... HISS...
The naive girl was about to answer when her eyes t Jiang Yourong’s, sending a shiver down her spine. "I didn’t see anything! I... I saw nothing at all."
Auntie... Auntie... Auntie... She’s so terrifying right now! Senior Brother, save !
Just then, there was a knock on the courtyard door, and Wang Xiu’s voice was heard. "Senior Jiang, Ling’er, are you both okay?"
Wang Xiu?
Jiang Yourong was startled, but before she could react, the young girl next to her had already dashed toward the door as if flying, her face bright with joy as she opened it. "Senior Brother! Where have you been? Ling’er missed you so much!"
I really did miss him. With Senior Brother away these past few days, I had to accompany Auntie in her alchemy. The constant explosions and monts of terror... my poor heart nearly shattered from fright.
"Well, well..." Wang Xiu patted Jiang Ling’er’s little head and smiled. "You’ve already reached the second layer of the Foundation Establishnt Stage so quickly. It seems Ling’er has been cultivating hard these days!"
Beaming after being praised by Wang Xiu, Jiang Ling’er’s eyes crinkled into a smile. "Of course! It’s all thanks to the two white rabbits Senior Brother gave . They’ve been a great help."
With that, Jiang Ling’er perford a hand seal, summoning two snow-white rabbit spirits. One was captured by Wang Xiu using the Soul Arresting Curse; the other was caught by Jiang Yourong herself, who then had Wang Xiu refine it.
The white rabbits, initially only the size of a palm, had now grown to over two feet long, truly deserving the na ’great white rabbits’. Moreover, the aura emanating from them was not weak; each one was above the Foundation Establishnt Stage. Under Jiang Ling’er’s control, their combat power should be considerable.
To have raised two Soul Pets so well in such a short ti, not to ntion her high affinity with them, proved that Jiang Ling’er’s talent in the Soul Dao was incredibly strong.
She’s truly the hope of the Jiuli Immortal Sect!
Wang Xiu caressed one of Jiang Ling’er’s big white rabbits. It was soft and felt very nice to the touch. "Junior Sister, I just saw a divine light flying out from your courtyard."
Jiang Ling’er began, "Oh, that divine light was—"
"It was a teor!!!" Jiang Yourong interrupted, speaking with righteous conviction. "That was a teor! Yes, a teor!"
"A teor?" Wang Xiu asked with a smile that wasn’t quite a smile. "Are you sure it was a teor, and not an alchemy furnace?"
An alchemy furnace? The corner of Jiang Yourong’s mouth twitched. If this boy finds out I’ve blown up the furnace seven or eight tis in a row—that even the alchemy furnace itself disdained my incompetence and ran away from ho—wouldn’t he tell his master? That girl Luo Binglan would be laughing in her grave for the next seven or eight hundred years!
Thinking this, Jiang Yourong huffed, "What alchemy furnace? It was just an ordinary teor."
Wang Xiu pressed, "Then that thunderous crack from the ground wasn’t the sound of a furnace exploding?"
Jiang Yourong puffed out her chest and retorted, "Of course not! That... that was the earth-shaking sound of my cultivation level breaking through!"
[Ding!]
[Detected soone bragging. Congratulations to the Host for gaining Mana 66.]
Wang Xiu’s lips curled up slightly. "But that divine light looked an awful lot like the Yunhua Furnace that Ling’er found, the one belonging to Alchemy Master Yunhua!"
Jiang Yourong’s old face flushed, and she snapped in angry embarrassnt, "You must have seen wrong! Alchemy Master Yunhua’s Alchemy Furnace has always been right here with . How could it possibly fly out? Impossible, simply impossible!"
Wang Xiu put on a troubled expression. "Could I ask Senior to please check again?"
Jiang Yourong waved her hand grandly. "No need to check! What’s there to check? The Yunhua Furnace is with , and not even a Great Luo Immortal could take it away!"
[Ding!]
[Detected soone bragging. Congratulations to the Host for gaining Mana 66.]
"Oh..." Wang Xiu nodded slightly and sighed. "Then the pill furnace I picked up at the gate must not be the one Senior Jiang lost. It probably just looks similar, that’s all!"
Jiang Yourong: ???
Jiang Ling’er: ???
Indeed. Wang Xiu had just been in his secret chamber, absorbing the experience card for the Supre Soul-Nourishing Elixir. His body naturally began to radiate the divine charm of the Alchemy Dao, and he entered a state of near-oneness with heaven and earth. It was then that he detected a certain consciousness. The form of this consciousness was hazy and its intelligence was low, but Wang Xiu could roughly understand the aning it was trying to convey.
Save ! Save ! Save !
After Wang Xiu finished absorbing the experience card and stepped out of his small courtyard, the Orchid Courtyard next door exploded. The Yunhua Furnace shot out, spun a full 3,600 degrees in the sky, and pounced right in front of him.
It looked utterly pitiful.
After all, what kind of alchemy furnace could withstand exploding with every single concoction? Its insides were about to get blasted into ulcers!
Looking at Wang Xiu holding the shrunken Yunhua Alchemy Furnace with a smile on his face, Jiang Yourong was overwheld with an endless tide of sha. If she weren’t a spirit floating in the air, she would have cringed so hard her toes could have carved a three-bedroom apartnt out of the floor.
"Master, be careful!" The Immortal Slaying Sword on his back trembled lightly, and Nie Linglan’s voice rang in Wang Xiu’s ear. "I sense resentnt! A very, very thick resentnt! This spirit is extrely fierce; you must be on your guard!"
Finally, Jiang Yourong could take no more.
"You rotten brat! I’ll fight you!" she roared, lunging at Wang Xiu with her hands like claws.
Unfortunately, the Wang Xiu of today was no longer the third-layer Foundation Establishnt weakling he once was. He was now a mighty cultivator at the second layer of the Core Formation Stage. A re Great Power Remnant Soul could be suppressed and teased with a flick of his finger!
WHOOSH.
With one hand, he easily suppressed the flailing Jiang Yourong beneath his palm. He smiled. "So, while I was gone, Senior Jiang has been refining elixirs this whole ti?"
Jiang Ling’er nodded honestly. "Yes. The furnace exploded nine tis."
Wang Xiu didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Nine explosions in four or five days—no wonder the alchemy furnace ran away from ho. Spiritual Artifacts have their dignity too. Who could stand having their stomach churn like that every day?
So be it. If he let Senior Jiang continue on like this, she would just be wasting the Yunhua Alchemy Furnace and so many spirit herbs. I should help her out.
"Senior Jiang is only a remnant soul, so your spirit power is greatly diminished," Wang Xiu said with a smile. "If you were at your peak, I believe that with your skill, Senior, refining the Jiuli Soul Nourishing Pill would have been an effortless task."
"Of course!" Jiang Yourong sniffed, turning her head away.
"But for now," Wang Xiu said, "allow to handle it for you!"
He smiled as he placed the Yunhua Alchemy Furnace on the ground and looked at Jiang Ling’er. "Ling’er, do you have these eighteen spirit herbs? Buyao Flower, Eternal Parting Grass, Age-burning Vine, Pill-mark Frost..."
Jiang Ling’er nodded. "Refining the Jiuli Nourishing Soul Pill requires twenty-seven types of spirit herbs. Of the eighteen you ntioned, eleven are among them. As for the other seven, I saw plenty in Alchemy Master Yunhua’s herb garden and picked quite a few."
Wang Xiu nodded slightly. "Give a few portions of each."
Give you a few portions?
Jiang Ling’er stared for a mont, then dutifully took out the herbs one by one. "Senior Brother, you know alchemy too?"
Wang Xiu smiled modestly. "I don’t know much about other elixirs. But as for the Supre Soul-Nourishing Elixir... you could say I know a little."
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