When Tang Cheng returned, it was already late at night.

She discovered that the door to her residence was open.

With a thought, Tang Cheng rushed through the door and ran towards the main room.

As she expected.

Lin Jingge was sitting in the main room waiting for her.

Tonight, the moon is hidden behind dark clouds, and it's pitch black outside.

The room was filled with luminous objects, which illuminated the entire main room.

Tang Cheng rushed through the darkness and into the brightly lit main room.

"Gege, it's so late, why aren't you resting yet?"

"Yes. I was waiting for you." Lin Jingge stood up as Tang Cheng entered the room, took a step forward, and looked Tang Cheng up and down with her eyes.

"Why are you waiting for me? You don't need to wait for me if something like this happens again." Tang Cheng scratched his head and said.

Although that's what she said, a smile that she couldn't suppress was curving her lips.

It feels wonderful to be cared for.

"How are you feeling? Are you hurt?" Lin Jingge asked with concern.

"Oh, I'm fine. It's just a tribulation of lightning. I've been preparing for it for almost half a month. It's finally here. How could anything happen to me?" Tang Cheng walked to a chair, picked up the teapot on the table, poured herself a cup of water, and drank it all in one gulp. Then she poured a cup for Lin Jingge and handed it to her.

"It's good that you're alright." Lin Jingge smiled and took the teacup with both hands, taking a sip.

"Alright, alright, don't worry, go back and rest." Tang Cheng pushed Lin Jingge into the house, and then went into her own room.

Inside the room, Lin Jingge saw the teacup she was still holding and shook her head with a smile.

Simply place the teacup casually to one side of the room, and you enter the space.

The little blue flame has been scorching that small stone all day.

The whole space was hot and stuffy.

It has to be said that it is indeed worthy of being found in the Cloud Cauldron Continent; it is quite different from the altar that Canglan put into her space.

The altar of the Divine Demon Transfer Array in the Cloud Cauldron Continent seems to have incorporated some other elements into its material, making the altar react more strongly to the restrictions.

But it is precisely because of this that the detector is so difficult to forge.

Lin Jingge gave all the spirit stones she had collected that day to Little Blue Flame.

A small piece of the altar's raw materials floated above the small blue flame.

It took more than half a month of burning before it showed signs of softening.

After consuming the spirit stones given by Lin Jingge, the little blue flame's temperature increased even further.

The flames flickered, as if complaining to Lin Jingge about the lack of spirit stones.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Jingge simply took out the spirit stones that Zhou Xuan and Lin Fu had given her.

The spirit stones poured out of the spatial ring, piling up like a small hill.

"Meow meow meow—" Xiao Shi let out a strange cry when it saw the small hill, and its cat eyes turned red with envy as it looked at Little Blue Flame.

Lin Jingge was taken aback.

She had only glanced at them briefly and noticed they were spirit stones, but she hadn't expected there to be so many.

This time, I really owe them a huge favor.

Upon seeing such a large pile of spirit stones, Little Blue Flame stopped complaining and instead became excited.

Lin Jingge went forward to check everything before leaving the space.

With Xiao Shi around, Lin Jingge felt at ease.

Before we knew it, the end of the year was upon us.

It just so happens to coincide with the exchange competition between the four major colleges and Yunding.

Lin Jingge, as a reserve team member, is not eligible to participate.

In addition, the most eye-catching part of this competition is not who is better at fighting, but those few magical techniques.

Alchemy, array formation, weapon crafting, and talisman making.

Tang Cheng was the most outstanding alchemist among all the freshmen. She didn't need to sign up; Teacher Liu automatically enrolled her.

These past few days, Tang Cheng has been forced to improve her alchemy skills, so she complained to Lin Jingge.

"You're so lucky, you don't have to participate in these messy competitions." Tang Cheng lay on the table, watching Lin Jingge equip herself with a bunch of things she couldn't understand.

"You, this is an opportunity that others would kill for, how come it has become so painful for you?"

“Gege, you don’t know, that old man Liu has been pressuring me to refine pills every day these past few days. He even said that this time it’s all thanks to me giving our Dean Nan face. But we’re not the only alchemist in our Dean Nan. There are so many senior brothers and sisters. Why is he pressing me so hard?”

Tang Cheng groaned a few times, clearly dissatisfied with the recent high-pressure situation, but she had no choice but to comply.

Lin Jingge felt a lump in her throat as she listened to Tang Cheng's boastful words.

Those who don't know Tang Cheng's personality might mistakenly think she's showing off.

But Lin Jingge knew that was not the case.

Tang Cheng has a free-spirited personality and doesn't like being disciplined.

This can be seen from the fact that she comes from a family of renowned weapon refiners, yet she doesn't even know the basics of weapon refining, which shows that she only learns what she wants to learn.

Although Tang Cheng enjoys alchemy, she has been forced to practice day and night, and recently, in order to refine fifth-grade pills, her failure rate has skyrocketed.

Unable to achieve the satisfaction of completing the pill, Tang Cheng felt she could no longer persevere.

She was merely a beginner-level fourth-grade alchemist, and asking her to practice fifth-grade pills was something Tang Cheng couldn't understand.

"If you practice hard, you might actually be able to refine a fifth-grade pill." Lin Jinge said to Tang Cheng while assembling his clothes, without looking up.

"So annoying, so annoying," Tang Cheng sighed.

Feeling a bit bored while lying on the table, she carefully picked up the part closest to her to examine it.

"What are all these things? I've never seen anything like them before."

The parts in his hand were very small and did not look like any powerful magical artifacts.

"I'm upgrading my magical artifact. I don't want to melt it down, so I can only add some things to it." Lin Jingge picked up the longsword on her lap and waved it at Tang Cheng.

"Oh, I see. This is the first time I've ever seen this method. Gege, you're amazing."

Lin Jingge smiled modestly.

Just then, the previously quiet Lingka suddenly flew into the air from Tang Cheng's body.

A ghostly image of Teacher Liu appeared in the air.

"Tang Cheng, where did you run off to?! I've prepared all the materials for you, come here, alchemist, everyone's waiting for you!"

The phantom of Teacher Liu stood with his hands on his hips, yelling at Tang Cheng.

Tang Cheng, who had been chatting happily with Lin Jingge, suddenly looked dejected.

She wailed a few times.

"Alright, Teacher Liu is still waiting for you, go on." Lin Jingge said, seeing Tang Cheng's reluctant expression.

Tang Cheng wailed a few more times, and finally passed away.

Not long after Tang Cheng left, Lin Jingge had already equipped all the parts.

After Lin Jingge wedged the two pieces of the longsword together, this longsword, which exuded a chilling aura yet was very restrained, became just like any other ordinary sword, and no one could see its secrets.

[Lin Jingge, I've arrived at the back gate of the South Campus.] A voice transmission sounded in Lin Jingge's mind.

Lin Jingge stood up instinctively.