"Don't be so modest. Everyone can see the effort you put into refining the elixir. You are very similar to the Alchemy Emperor of that year. I even suspect that you are the reincarnation of the Alchemy Emperor." The voice of the Qiankun Gathering Spirit Furnace was filled with emotion, as if it had traveled through time and space, echoing in everyone's ears.
"Senior, you are flattering me. How can I be compared with Senior Dan Di? It takes me a long time to comprehend an ordinary pill formula, and other alchemy apprentices outside comprehend it faster than me. Often, a pill formula that others can comprehend in three days takes me ten days or even longer." Liu Ling said with a slightly red cheek, a little embarrassed. She lowered her head slightly, not daring to look directly into Yu Kai's eyes, with a hint of shyness in her eyes.
"I'm not making fun of you. The Alchemy Emperor back then was the same. I've never seen an alchemy apprentice as 'clumsy' as her. But even such a seemingly stupid person, no matter how I ridiculed her, she never gave up. No matter what kind of elixir recipe it is, and no matter its grade, she must thoroughly understand the secret behind it. If she can't refine an elixir that satisfies her, she will never study other elixir recipes. Therefore, she is the alchemist with the slowest progress in alchemy that I have ever seen, but it is also such a person who finally entered the Dao through elixir and became the most remarkable Alchemy Emperor." The voice of Qiankun Julinglu was full of reminiscence, as if she was immersed in memories of the past, and the air around her seemed to be filled with a faint nostalgia.
"This senior Dan Emperor is truly resolute. Anyone else would have either given up early or gone with the flow, chasing fame and fortune, becoming a mere alchemist with nothing to show for it. They would never have been able to refine a miraculous elixir that could change fate." Yu Kai was filled with emotion. He admired the Dan Emperor's meticulous approach to studying the art of alchemy, and he couldn't help but think to himself, "I should emulate the Dan Emperor's dedication to diligent study, so I can live up to my stature as a man!"
"The Dan Emperor is not a man!" The long voice of the Qiankun Spirit Gathering Furnace sounded again, instantly breaking the brief tranquility around.
"What?" Yu Kai and Liu Ling were shocked and exclaimed in unison, their eyes full of disbelief.
"That's right. The Alchemy Emperor, like Liu Ling, was a woman. Back then, I looked down on her and made things difficult for her. Sometimes, when I scolded her too harshly, she would hide in a corner and cry secretly." The Qiankun Spirit Gathering Furnace vibrated slightly, and her words were full of self-blame, as if she was confessing her past mistakes. "But after she finished crying, she immediately cheered up, asked me for advice with a smile, and kept trying in front of me. The process of obtaining her alchemy ingredients was extremely difficult. She had to go to the mountains to pick many things herself, and she was often attacked and injured by monsters. At that time, I was extremely disgusted with her, thinking she was wasting her time and had no destiny to become an alchemist. I watched helplessly as she repeatedly wasted the herbs she had painstakingly collected."
Liu Ling listened, tears welling up in her eyes. Her mind involuntarily flashed back to the time when the Alchemy Emperor was young, repeatedly injured by monsters and repeatedly failing at alchemy. Seeing this, Yu Kai felt deeply distressed. He stepped forward, gently holding her hand and soothing her tenderly, his eyes filled with pity.
"Liu Ling, do you think I'm very bad?" The Qiankun Spirit Gathering Furnace trembled slightly, as if waiting for judgment, and there was a hint of uneasiness in its voice.
"No, didn't the senior teach her everything he knew in the end? If it weren't for the senior, there wouldn't be the world-famous Alchemy Emperor!" Liu Ling tried to hold back her tears, her voice choked with sobs, her eyes full of determination.
"Later I asked her why she had to make pills. She said that her mother sold her to the pill shop at that time in order to save her father. But the life-saving pill she got in return failed to save her father, and her mother became seriously ill due to her father's death. She knelt at the door of the pill shop owner for a whole day, but failed to get the pills, and was beaten half to death. In the middle of the night, she dragged her injured body, stole some waste pill residue and took it back for her mother to take, but accidentally poisoned her mother - her only relative! So, she determined to become an alchemist and save more poor people!" Qiankun Julinglu slowly narrated the past of the Pill Emperor, his voice full of vicissitudes and emotion, as if telling a dusty past.
After hearing this, Liu Ling was deeply moved. She knelt down solemnly in front of the Qiankun Spirit Gathering Furnace and said, "Liu Ling was born dull, and before I met you, I had never been exposed to alchemy. Thank you for your patient teaching over the years. I will definitely take you, Dan Di, as an example, study hard, and use what I have learned to save more people!" There was a firm light in her eyes, as if she had made up her mind.
"No, you don't need to learn from her. Her life was too hard. For the sake of all living beings in the vast fairyland, she has been dealing with the ancient descendants alone. In order to find the materials for the three magic pills, she has been running around in various dangerous ruins and chaotic voids all her life. In order to refine these three magic pills, she even bled to death. She could have taken these three magic pills and lived three more lives, but she gave up, leaving these three magic pills and her summary of the alchemy to future generations." The Qiankun Spirit Gathering Furnace trembled violently, as if weeping for the fate of the Pill Emperor, and there was endless regret in his voice.
"Senior, please accept my condolences! It was me who opened the Alchemy Palace, and it was me who took away the divine elixir. Sooner or later, I will go to the vast fairyland and guard it for her. I have inherited the inheritance of the vast fairyland, and sooner or later I will have a battle with the ancient descendants." Yu Kai looked solemn, and slowly knelt in front of the alchemy furnace, and said solemnly, with determination and resoluteness in his eyes.
The Qiankun Soul Gathering Furnace trembled slightly a few times, as if it had sensed something, and then said, "You should take good care of her. She is completely focused on you and has been hoping to keep up with you and lend a hand when you need help. During the time you were unconscious, she was refining pills day and night. As long as it was a pill that could be useful to you, she would work hard to refine it." There was a hint of relief and heartache in its voice.
Upon hearing this, Yu Kai felt a warmth in his heart. He held Liu Ling's hand tightly and said affectionately: "Don't worry, senior, I will. The first time I saw her, I felt an inexplicable joy, as if we had known each other in the previous life. The feeling is hard to describe!" His eyes were full of tenderness and affection.
"Do you feel the same way? Me too, it seems like we have known each other for many years." Liu Ling looked at Yu Kai, her face filled with tenderness and happiness, her eyes filled with endless attachment.
"Get up, you two must cherish each other. It's not easy to be together." After the Qiankun Soul Gathering Furnace finished speaking, it slowly sank into Liu Ling's soul sea, secretly sighing in his heart: "You two couldn't be together in the last life, so don't miss it again in this life!"
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