"Thank you for the kind offer, but I’m not accepting any Contractors at the mont!" Ning Xuan was a bit speechless at the man’s bluntness and rejected him outright.
The young man’s expression imdiately fell. He glanced over at Chen Nan, then said, unwilling to give up, "Miss, I... My strength is not weak. At the very least, I’m no worse than him. If you are willing to soothe , my power will grow even stronger!"
Although the rules in Extre Cold City were different from the outside world, Ning Xuan and Chen Nan shared a spiritual connection, and these S-Class Spirit Controllers could still sense it.
"I’m not willing!" Ning Xuan knew this man wasn’t weak and even possessed special abilities for stealth. However, the fact that he was capable of secretly placing things in her room, combined with the words he just spouted, gave her an inexplicable feeling of being threatened.
’Now that I’m weak, anyone dares to jump out and boss around!’
Seeing Ning Xuan reject the man, Chen Nan’s expression visibly relaxed. He hadn’t expected soone to throw themselves at Ning Xuan and pester her in a place like Extre Cold City.
"Get lost! If you dare to bother my Contractor again, don’t bla for getting rough!" Chen Nan ordered him away, his face dark.
"Miss Ning, actually, that man isn’t just the mayor of North City Town. It’s said he has close ties to the person controlling Extre Cold City!" After the man left, Luo Sen spoke up frankly, ignoring Chen Nan’s presence, to share what he knew.
"Oh. Whatever connections or background he has, it has nothing to do with . What I hate most is people telling what to do, or forcing to do things!" As Ning Xuan spoke, she shot a glance at Chen Nan.
Chen Nan, unconcerned that the other rcenaries were still present, caught her glance and silently knelt. He knew that forcing her to co to Extre Cold City was still a sore spot for her.
Seeing this, the others all took their leave. Ning Xuan glanced at the food on the table. Only a serving of Snake Soup, which Luo Sen had arranged to be made, was decent. Although it wasn’t as good as the one she’d made by the Ice Lake, it was still passable. The rest of the dishes were inedible.
"Co and eat," Ning Xuan called Chen Nan over. Her feelings for him were different, after all. She had willingly established their spiritual connection in the beginning.
Early the next day, they headed back to the safe zone. They rushed the entire way, moving quickly, and returned to the safe zone by afternoon.
Ning Xuan didn’t go ho, heading straight for the Earth Fire Room instead. She had to refine the Body Refining Potion as soon as possible!
Ning Xuan had refined High-level Compound Potions before. According to the Alchemist assessnt rules, she was already an Advanced Alchemist.
The difficulty of refining this Modified Body Refining Potion was even greater than that of a High-level Compound Potion. This was especially true for the Ice Python Inner Core. Although the Ice Python was S-Class, the Ice Energy it contained far surpassed that level. Therefore, Ning Xuan couldn’t treat the Ice Python Inner Core like an ordinary S-Class Exotic Beast Inner Core.
Ning Xuan prepared the dicinal ingredients. She first refined a few bottles of Healing Potions, which were considered High-level Compound Potions, to ensure she was in a stable state before starting on the Body Refining Potion.
Exotic Plants like the Foggy Flower, Blue Light Lotus, and Thunder Wood Vine all needed to be processed in advance to extract their active ingredients, which were then set aside. The Ice Crystal Phoenix Cry Jade was a catalyst used during the refining of the Ice Python Inner Core.
Before refining the Ice Python Inner Core, Ning Xuan practiced with other S-Class Exotic Beast Inner Cores she had bought. Refining the S-Class Fiery Firebird inner core went smoothly, but when she tried to refine the inner core of an Ice Beast, an Ice Bear, she found herself struggling. Ultimately, she failed to lock the massive amount of Ice Energy into an Energy Bottle, and it dissipated into the Earth Fire Room. Unwilling to let the energy go to waste, Ning Xuan activated the Guiding Spirit Scripture and drew the scattered Ice Energy into her own ridians.
The ridians in Ning Xuan’s body originally circulated with Fire Elent Energy. When the Ice Energy entered her, it caused the Fire Elent Energy to beco agitated. Ning Xuan compressed the Ice Energy into a cluster and guided it into the Dantian below her navel.
The Ice Energy Cluster floated quietly in her Dantian, and her agitated ridians returned to calm.
After this ordeal, Ning Xuan was ntally exhausted and didn’t dare to rashly attempt refining the Body Refining Potion again. She went ho to rest for the night. The next day, she bought a box of Ice Beast Inner Cores and continued to practice.
After another two days of practice, Ning Xuan finally figured out how to refine an Ice Beast Inner Core and lock the energy into an Energy Bottle. By this point, the Ice Energy Cluster in the Dantian in her lower abdon had already tripled in size.
All in all, after more than half a month of preparation, everything was finally ready. Ning Xuan placed the Ice Python Inner Core into the Alchemy Furnace and used her spiritual power to seal it. The eight vines floating around her were like eight extra hands, controlling the flas and preparing ingredients. The Ice Energy within the Ice Python Inner Core was imnse. Even though Ning Xuan was prepared, she was inevitably thrown into a flurry of activity. She controlled her spiritual power to channel the Ice Energy from the core, while her vines and hands monitored the changes inside the Alchemy Furnace, ready to add the right ingredients at the opportune mont.
As Ning Xuan perford Alchemy in the Earth Fire Room, Chen Nan sensed the energy fluctuations from within and grew extrely anxious. Even from the outside, he could feel the imnse and pure Ice Energy. Ning Xuan’s soon-to-awaken Companion Spirit was of the Fire Elent, and the two elents countered each other. This undoubtedly increased the difficulty of the refinent process for her.
About four hours passed. During this ti, ice and fire alternated within the Earth Fire Room. The flas in the other Earth Fire Rooms seed to be siphoned away or suppressed, extinguishing one by one. The Spirit Controllers who were cultivating or performing Alchemy in those rooms ca out to see what was happening, not knowing the cause. A crowd began to gather at the door. Just when Chen Nan could no longer bear the suspense, a peculiar fragrance wafted out, accompanied by the roar of an Ice Python. The energy fluctuations inside the Earth Fire Room gradually cald down.
"I think I just felt the power of starlight, just like when a Star-grade dicine is created!" an Advanced Alchemist in the crowd exclaid excitedly.
"Could the Alchemist in that Earth Fire Room be refining a Star-grade dicine?" soone guessed in astonishnt.
"It’s very likely! Why else would the Fire Elent Energy on our side just disappear? It must be because refining a Star-grade dicine requires an enormous amount of energy!" soone next to him imdiately chid in.
Whatever the person inside was refining, they all wanted to go in and see!
"Stop talking nonsense! Do you think Star-grade dicine is that easy to make? Even an Alchemy Master can’t succeed every ti. Besides, refining a Star-grade dicine requires a colossal amount of energy and usually causes a strange phenonon upon completion, not just a commotion like that!" Luo Sen retorted loudly from within the crowd.
While Ning Xuan was inside performing Alchemy, she had specifically asked Luo Sen’s team to wait outside to prevent any unexpected incidents.
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