With the strong support of Xiu Qiyu and Qing Zhiyi, Ye Xiruo's medicine shop was renovated in just three days.

In reality, a pill shop doesn't need much decoration. A few counters specifically for displaying pills, plus a cashier, and perhaps a few pots of spiritual herbs to set the mood would suffice. But how could Xiu Qiyu allow Ye Xiruo to suffer any injustice? All the counters were crafted from single pieces of crystal, and ancient lamps that could burn spiritual energy and emit light hung from the ceiling. The doors and windows were made of a purple solid wood that emitted a faint fragrance, conducive to calming the mind. Even the shelves displaying the spiritual herbs were meticulously crafted. The entire pill shop, inside and out, perfectly embodied the meaning of understated luxury.

Ye Xiruo is still unaware of these things. She is still refining pills in the Crystal Palace. As she refines more and more pills, her refining speed is also getting faster and faster. Of course, her spiritual power is also slowly increasing.

In the past few days, Ye Xiruo has been refining high-grade fifth-rank pills. The quality has improved from the initial middle and upper grades to the current upper and top grades. Ye Xiruo's soul is also slowly growing.

When Ye Xiruo exhausted her mental energy again and began to recover, she suddenly felt that the barrier of her mental energy seemed to have thinned considerably. Without hesitation, she swallowed two pills and began to rapidly restore her mental energy. Once her mental energy was fully restored, Ye Xiruo condensed it into a spear and fiercely charged at the barrier of her mental energy.

Today, Ye Xiruo acted on a whim, and her own accumulated strength was indeed sufficient, which is why she dared to break through directly. If she failed, the barrier of her spiritual power would thicken several times, meaning the difficulty of the next breakthrough would increase several times over. Generally, alchemists only decide to break through after making ample preparations. However, Ye Xiruo believed she could definitely succeed. Once she broke through the sixth rank, she could continue upwards until the ninth rank before encountering the next bottleneck.

Ye Xiruo had no idea she would fail to break through. The mental barrier looked thin, but it held its ground firmly, causing Ye Xiruo to suffer repeated setbacks. Finally, Ye Xiruo mustered her strength and directly condensed three spears, linking them together in a line. After one spear finished attacking, the next spear continued to attack that point, breaking through the barrier from a single point. She refused to believe that she couldn't break through this barrier.

As expected, under Ye Xiruo's relentless bombardment, the mental barrier quickly shattered into dust, which Ye Xiruo refined and made into a part of her mental power.

After breaking through her mental barrier, Ye Xiruo's mental strength tripled, and her soul also became much stronger. In addition, she had already cultivated her Fire Control Technique to the third level. Almost the instant she broke through, Ye Xiruo knew that she had become a sixth-grade alchemist.

Sure enough, the long-lost system was also awakened and sent a notification: "Congratulations to the master for becoming a sixth-grade alchemist. The space area has increased by another hundred acres. Hooray! Applause!"

Since the system has already said so, she must have become a sixth-grade alchemist. There's no need to rush to verify it now.

Ye Xiruo flashed into the space, and this concentration of spiritual energy was normal, twice as concentrated as the Crystal Palace.

After upgrading her mental strength, Ye Xiruo can now accurately collect all the spiritual vegetables at once, and can also classify them and store them all in the storage compartment.

There are still too few kinds of spiritual fruits. Ye Xiruo would like to eat apples, pineapples, durians, snow pears, passion fruit, melons, lychees, cherries, and yellow peaches.

The space has been expanded by a hundred acres, hasn't it? Perfect for growing spirit fruits. We can brew a mixed fruit spirit wine later, though I wonder if it will taste strange. One must be willing to try new things.

Near Xuezhu, Xiu Qiyu had set up an ice array. Combined with the abundant spiritual energy in the space, it had already grown to a considerable size, appearing crystal clear and snow-white, creating a very picturesque scene.

Ye Xiruo specially brewed a cup of soul-cleansing tea in the snow bamboo forest and even prepared to play a piece on the zither, but she fell asleep directly. The unique fragrance of snow bamboo filled her nose and the rustling sound of the wind blowing through the snow bamboo filled her ears. Ye Xiruo leaned against a snow bamboo and fell asleep.

Of course, this could only happen in the Snow Bamboo Forest. If it were Vajra Bamboo, the view would be a dazzling expanse of golden light, almost blindingly so. I really don't know what Elder Wenqing's aesthetic sense or tastes are. Thousand-year-old mutated Vajra Bamboo can be refined into very powerful magical artifacts, and ten-thousand-year-old mutated Vajra Bamboo can even be refined into immortal artifacts, rumored to have the effect of resisting heavenly tribulations.

It seems that even mutated Vajra Bamboo is rare, let alone Thousand-Year Vajra Bamboo, which can only be found in some ancient and mysterious secret realms. As for 10,000-year mutated Vajra Bamboo, it cannot be found even in secret realms.

Ye Xiruo slept soundly, even drooling a little. She casually wiped the drool off her hands, then released her spiritual energy to pick the tenderest snow bamboo leaves, preparing to brew a batch of snow bamboo wine. She then wandered over to the Vajra Bamboo area; the mutated Vajra Bamboo was increasing rapidly. Excellent! If she ever needed spirit stones, she could just cut down a few stalks and sell them. Vajra Bamboo was a metal-attribute bamboo, and the spirit wine made from it was only drinkable by metal-attribute cultivators; those with other attributes couldn't drink it. Therefore, Ye Xiruo gave up after only one attempt. She focused her attention on the Vajra Bamboo shoots; the legendary bamboo shoot stir-fried with meat was indeed delicious. Bamboo shoot stir-fried with eggs, bamboo shoot stir-fried with wood ear mushrooms, bamboo shoot fried rice—all were quite tasty, and they were also good as steamed buns.

Ye Xiruo's mouth was practically watering. She dug up about ten bamboo shoots, stuffed them into her spatial ring, and left the Vajra Bamboo Forest. As for the Xuan Yin Bamboo, which was shrouded in a chilling aura, Ye Xiruo thought that bamboo that was neither edible nor beautiful deserved to be neglected by its master and left to fend for itself.

The Xuan Yin Bamboo thrives best in places with heavy Yin energy. Where in this space is there any place with heavy Yin energy? If Ye Xi had simply planted the Xuan Yin Bamboo by the river, that would have been the end of it. With such abundant spiritual energy in this space, if it still died, it would definitely have brought it upon itself, and it wouldn't have anything to do with her.

Then I went to see the Concentration Flower. The Concentration Flower can repair the soul and strengthen spiritual power, and it is a treasure that all alchemists dream of. The key point is that the Ning Shenhua species has become extinct on the Taiyan Continent. The fact that Brother Xiu Qi was able to obtain the Concentration Flower this time can only be described as having extraordinary luck.

However, the legendary top-grade spiritual medicine was indeed legendary. Despite being planted in such a unique environment by the divine spring, it had only grown one more leaf after so long. Ye Xiruo felt a pang of sadness.