Rong Jiaojiao smiled and carried it out of the secret realm.

The man and beast immediately began cultivating after leaving the secret realm.

Upon waking from cultivation, I discovered that the array in the courtyard had stopped functioning at some point.

Rong Jiaojiao was startled and felt a little scared. She hadn't expected that she wouldn't have noticed when her formation stopped working.

He was secretly relieved that he was cautious and never cultivated in the space, otherwise someone might have discovered his abnormality without him even knowing it.

They quickly checked the formation and discovered that two spirit stones had exhausted their spiritual energy and turned into powder.

She replaced the spirit stones with new ones, then checked the other spirit stones and found that they were almost exhausted, so she had to replace them all with new ones.

Looking at the dull and lifeless spirit stone with almost no spiritual energy, Rong Jiaojiao thought of the Hidden Spirit Wood. With a try-it-out attitude, Rong Jiaojiao put the waste spirit stone into the Hidden Spirit Wood powder.

She didn't have much hope, so after saying that, she stopped caring and took Ziling to the Spirit Herb Hall.

Currently, those within the sect are mostly junior disciples or older disciples with low potential; there are very few with high cultivation levels.

When Rong Jiaojiao arrived at Lingcao Hall, she saw a senior sister who was sixteen or seventeen years old, whom Rong Jiaojiao did not recognize.

Rong Jiaojiao walked over, addressed him as "Uncle-Master" based on her apparent cultivation level, and handed him a list: "I need these kinds of spiritual herbs."

The senior sister smiled and handed her the elixir, asking, "Are you planning to learn alchemy, niece?"

Rong Jiaojiao was a little embarrassed, but she still nodded: "I want to try and see if I have any talent."

The senior sister kindly suggested, "With your current cultivation level, if you want to learn alchemy, it would be best to start with the simplest Bigu Pill. Not only are the medicinal materials cheap, but there are also fewer types of spiritual herbs, making it relatively easy to refine."

Rong Jiaojiao knew the ingredients for the Bigu Pill, and that it was indeed the simplest formula. Moreover, she had all the ingredients, so she decided to follow her senior sister's advice and go back to learn how to refine the Bigu Pill.

After paying the spirit stones, she replied, "Thank you, Senior Sister. I happen to have the medicinal ingredients for the Bigu Pill as well. I'll learn how to use it when I get back."

The senior sister smiled, and Rong Jiaojiao waved goodbye and left.

When Rong Jiaojiao returned to the courtyard to learn alchemy, she realized that she had not yet learned how to inscribe a fire-gathering array.

He quickly went to look through the array book his master had given him, and sure enough, it contained the method for depicting the Fire Gathering Array.

The method wasn't difficult; Rong Jiaojiao believed that with a few more attempts, she could carve it herself. However, Rong Jiaojiao lacked the materials to carve the Fire Gathering Array, making it impossible for her to operate.

Scratching her head in frustration, Zi Ling reminded him, "Master, why don't you check if any of the array plates Jun Yuangui gave you are fire-gathering array plates?"

It felt that since Jun Yuangui had given Rong Jiaojiao the alchemy furnace, there might be a Fire Gathering Array plate among those keyboards.

Rong Jiaojiao took out the array plate and refined them one by one. There was no fire gathering array inside, but there was a fire control array, and a spiritual fire was sealed inside.

Of the other three, one is a spirit-gathering array.

As for the other two array plates, Rong Jiaojiao didn't know their level, but just the fact that they could combine several arrays such as killing array, defensive array, and concealment array showed that they were extraordinary.

As for the fire control array, Rong Jiaojiao can only control the use of the spiritual fire through the fire control array at present. If she wants to use the spiritual fire at will, she still needs to recognize the spiritual fire as her master.

But as soon as Rong Jiaojiao had the idea of ​​refining the spiritual fire, she had a feeling that if she did so, she would be in danger of losing her life.

Rong Jiaojiao understood that this spiritual flame was not something she could covet in her current state.

She wasn't without suspicion about Jun Yuangui's intentions, but since she lacked the ability to control the situation, she decided to first utilize all available resources to improve herself.

She stopped worrying about it; as long as it could be used for alchemy, that was fine.

He mentally searched through the small secret realm, taking out enough spiritual herbs to refine several batches of fasting pills. With a series of cleansing spells, the herbs were completely cleaned.

Next, Rong Jiaojiao began her alchemy journey.

Rong Jiaojiao placed the prepared spiritual herbs into the alchemy furnace, carefully set up a fire control array, and ignited the spiritual fire.

Following the steps of her master's alchemy as recorded in the book, she controlled the heat and slowly heated the elixir.

However, when the elixir began to melt, she discovered that the heat was not quite right; the temperature of the spiritual fire was not stable enough, causing the elixir to fuse too slowly.

She tried to adjust the fire using the fire control array, but the array did not completely obey her commands, and the fire was sometimes strong and sometimes weak, making it impossible to control precisely.

Ultimately, the medicinal herbs did not fully fuse, leaving only a pile of semi-finished products in the furnace, and the alchemy failed.

Having learned from her first failure, Rong Jiaojiao decided to be more careful in controlling the heat.

She carefully observed the operation of the fire control array, trying to find a more suitable control method.

This time, before putting the medicinal herbs into the alchemy furnace, she first experimented with some auxiliary medicinal herbs in an attempt to find the optimal heat.

However, when she officially began refining the Bigu Pill, she found that the temperature of the spiritual fire suddenly rose, the spiritual herbs were instantly scorched, and the entire furnace was filled with a burnt smell.

She hurriedly stopped the fire control array, but it was too late. The elixir was completely ruined, and the alchemy failed once again.

On her third attempt, she carefully examined the fire control array and discovered that there seemed to be some problems with the array. It might be because the spiritual fire was different, and she had not fully grasped its characteristics when she recognized and refined it.

So she refined the fire control array again so that she could better control the spiritual fire.

After some effort, she felt that her control over the fire control array had improved, so she began refining pills again.

This time, she followed the steps strictly, controlling the heat, and the elixir began to fuse smoothly.

However, just as the elixir was about to be successfully refined, the furnace suddenly trembled, disrupting the fusion process. In the end, only some extremely poor-quality pills were produced, which had almost no effect.

The alchemy attempt failed once again.

The fourth attempt, the fifth attempt, the sixth attempt...

After more than ten attempts, Rong Jiaojiao had become somewhat numb, but she still didn't want to give up and couldn't let the secret realm cheat code go to waste.

Rong Jiaojiao reopened her master's notes and carefully studied every detail.

She discovered that when her master first learned alchemy, he particularly emphasized the importance of each step, especially the handling of spiritual herbs.

The grandmaster mentioned that each kind of elixir has its unique properties, and only by refining and removing impurities individually can the quality of the final elixir be ensured.

Rong Jiaojiao realized that she had been too eager for quick results and hadn't taken each step seriously, leading to repeated failures in alchemy. She decided to start over, following her master's method step by step.

Rong Jiaojiao moved the alchemy furnace to an open area in the courtyard and began practicing the fire control array again.

She placed each medicinal herb into the alchemy furnace, adjusted the temperature of the spiritual fire to the most suitable temperature for each herb using the fire control array, and carefully observed the changes in the herbs.

She discovered that each elixir required different heat and time to refine.