Outside the secret realm.

"Sir, you see there are thunderclouds in the sky above the secret realm, but these thunderclouds are a little strange, with colorful rays of light. Could it be that someone is going to upgrade his body?" Long Shen pointed at the thunderclouds in the sky and asked Xiao Xuan curiously.

"That doesn't seem to be the calamity cloud that comes with a cultivator's advancement. It's more like... a pill calamity."

"Elixir tribulation? Only elixirs of the eighth grade or higher can bring about an elixir tribulation. There are actually high-level alchemists in this secret realm?" Long Shen was puzzled. "What are those old monsters doing in this secret realm when they are not at home?"

꽮xuan counted with his fingers and said in a deep voice: "It's not someone else, it's Xiaoxiao."

"Is it Miss Xiaoxiao?" Long Shen's voice rose a little, attracting the attention of many people around. Long Shen quickly shut up and switched to voice transmission.

"Miss Xiaoxiao, can you already refine high-level elixirs?"

꽮xuan ignored the dragon and took out the copper coins he had brought with him for divination. The hexagram showed good luck. Even so, 꽮xuan was still worried. He continued to use the tortoise shell to divine and observed the stars to predict good and bad luck.

All the hexagrams showed good luck, so Xuan came with peace of mind.

Long Shen felt very strange when he saw this, and asked in confusion: "Sir, didn't you do divination yesterday? Why do you do it again today? Besides, Miss Xiaoxiao has a good relationship with us and is considered a close friend. Is your divination really accurate?"

Hearing Long Shen's doubts, Xiao Xuan was a little unhappy: "You have been with me for so long, when have you ever seen me make a mistake? My divination is the most accurate in Xiao Xing Sect."

If the prediction showed bad luck, he might believe the dragon and the mirage, but his hexagrams were all good luck, so how could they be inaccurate?

It must be accurate.

"Okay." Long Shen nodded and believed what 깊꽮xuan said.

His young master's divinations were indeed never wrong.

So, Miss Xiaoxiao can already refine eighth-grade elixirs, so does that mean she can have as many eighth-grade elixirs for her spirit beasts as she wants?

Long Shen was really jealous, he wanted it too.

"Sir, considering your friendship with Miss Xiaoxiao, do you think she would give me some eighth-grade elixirs if I asked her for them?"

꽮xuan:……?

The strange phenomenon in the secret realm also attracted the attention of many monks outside the secret realm.

"It turns out that an eighth-grade elixir has appeared. What secret realm is this? Can we enter now? Can we enter?!"

"What, an eighth-grade elixir has appeared?"

"Have you heard that there are peerless elixirs in the hidden medicine secret realm?"

“Is this true or false?”

"Really? It's said to have caused a strange phenomenon."

"Let's go and have a look."

The news spread among the monks outside the secret realm, and more and more monks rushed here.

The intuitive feelings of the monks in the secret realm will only be more profound than those outside the secret realm.

"Dan tribulation?"

"Only the appearance of an elixir of the eighth grade or higher will cause an elixir disaster. It seems that someone is refining an eighth grade elixir, and there is a great chance that it will succeed."

"That eighth-level bounty seems to be real."

"I don't know who is so unlucky to offend a high-level alchemist. His death is not unjust."

"Do you want to join us?"

"Okay, then kill as many people as possible and we'll split the pills equally."

The cultivators in the secret realm became restless because of this eighth-grade pill calamity, and similar conversations continued to be staged in the secret realm.

Of course, no one wants to snatch the eighth-grade elixir now. If the elixir was obtained by a cultivator by accident, they would dare to snatch it.

But this robbery cloud told them that the wanted man was a genuine high-level alchemist, which they dared not even think about.

To offend a high-level alchemist, does that mean you think your life is not long enough?

If he just took out a pill, there would be many people willing to help him kill people.

But the ones who were most shocked were undoubtedly Wen Chan and her group, who were closest to them.

The first pill calamity came suddenly without any warning, directly attacking the pill that had not yet taken shape in the pill refining furnace.

Xiao Xiao was startled and quickly took out a seventh-grade magic weapon to resist. The elixir he had worked so hard to refine could not be destroyed like this.

However, the pill tribulation of the eighth-grade elixir was very serious, and the seventh-grade magic weapon was destroyed in an instant. Xiao Xiao was so scared that he took out a stack of defensive talismans and was able to offset the first thunder tribulation.

She was careless!

The elixir manuals of the cultivation world only briefly mention the elixir tribulation, with only one sentence saying that an elixir of the eighth grade or higher will experience an elixir tribulation, but nothing about other elixirs.

She thought the pill calamity was not very severe.

In addition, she had a very good relationship with 꽭道爸爸, so she thought 꽭道爸爸 would not make things too difficult for her. However, she did not expect that 꽭道爸爸 would be so selfless this time.

[Host, I know that my father has not descended here. This calamity cloud was triggered passively.] The system said weakly after noticing Xiao Xiao's thoughts.

Xiao Xiao: It’s hasty. She should bribe him before refining the elixir. No, she should worship Dad first.

The second bolt of lightning soon fell again, pointing directly at the alchemy furnace, as if it was unwilling to see this eighth-grade elixir come into the world.

"Fellow Daoist Xiao, I am here to help you."

Ruan Xu was the first to respond. He rushed towards the thunder with sword in hand and helped Xiao Xiao block the thunder.

Others also responded quickly, some took out magic weapons, some threw talismans.

However, after nine thunderbolts passed, everyone had almost used up everything they could to resist, and this thunderbolt would not dissipate.

Ruan Xu was also severely injured by the lightning and could no longer resist, so he had to retreat helplessly.

The situation became serious.

[System, why is there still a pill tribulation? Hasn't it already passed the ninth level? ]

Nine is the extreme number, and there cannot be more than nine thunderbolts.

[Host, the eighth-grade elixir usually has a lower level. Most people will not refine more than five elixirs. You have refined five, so there are fifteen in total. Nine have been reduced, and there are still six.]

Xiao Xiao: Fuck (a plant)!

I must clean up my mistakes even if I have to kneel down.

Xiao Xiao had used up all the low-level magic weapons on her body, so she could only take out high-level magic weapons to resist. These were originally the items she used for bounties, but now the situation was urgent, so it was more important to protect the elixir.

Xiao Xiao was about to move when suddenly a flash of lightning came to his mind and a thought came to his mind.

Are lightning rods useful?

Amid everyone's astonished gazes, Xiao Xiao took out two towers, with a long...needle on the top of the tower?

The situation was urgent and Xiao Xiao had no time to explain. She used earth magic to build a hillside and then buried the lightning rod deep inside.

"What a mess! It's already this time, and we're still working on these two towers. What's the use of these towers? We might as well think about how to deal with a thunderbolt..." Shen Ruihua's anxiety slammed on the brakes.

While he was speaking, the pill disaster descended again, but the lightning on it was not very high above the pill refining furnace and was forcibly sucked away by the two strange towers next to it.

Suck it away by force?

What kind of magic weapon is this that can actually prevent thunder?

Isn't it amazing?!

Seeing that the lightning rod was useful, Xiao Xiao was relieved. The more money she could save, the better. Unfortunately, she thought of it too late and wasted so much.

With two lightning rods, the remaining catastrophe is no longer a threat.

After fifteen lightning strikes, the calamity clouds finally dissipated.

So...the eighth-grade elixir is ready?