Xiu Qiyu stopped eating when he saw that the food was almost ready. He ate his meal seriously and kept putting food into Ye Xiruo's bowl until it was full. Ye Xiruo picked at the food in her bowl, her mind filled with Xiu Qiyu's almost blinding smile. Even after finishing her meal, she was still dizzy, as if she were on a cloud.
"Thank you for your trouble, Xiaoyezi. It's delicious, I really like it."
"I prepared this meal to celebrate your breakthrough, so I'm glad you like it." Ye Xiruo's eyes sparkled, clearly in a good mood.
"I'm going to process the medicinal herbs." Xiu Qiyu patted Ye Xiruo's head and got up to get to work.
"I'll help you." Ye Xiruo also stood up and followed behind Xiu Qiyu. She felt light as a feather. Brother Xiu Qiyu was indeed a devil, he could bewitch people.
Ye Xiruo had done it several times and her movements were already quite skilled. Moreover, she only picked the useful ones without distinguishing them, and left the useless ones directly. She would crush them and bury them in the soil later, which would also make excellent fertilizer.
Xiu Qiyu piled up all the medicinal herbs she had uprooted to one side, waiting for Ye Xiruo to process them a second time. This naturally wouldn't take long. With their tacit cooperation, they finished collecting all the medicinal herbs in two hours.
Ye Xiruo was on the sidelines, starting the second processing of the spiritual herbs, while Xiu Qiyu produced many ice blades, cutting back and forth in the ground to crush all the fertilizer and bury it underground.
Soon, the two finished their work, exchanged a smile, and this tacit understanding between them became more and more profound and natural.
"Little Leaf, is there anything else I can help you with?"
Ye Xiruo shook her head. She was about to become a sixth-grade alchemist. The system had just released a new task: the "Intermediate Edition of the Great Compendium of Myriad Herbs." She glanced at it and saw tens of thousands of spiritual herbs, ranging from fifth to tenth grade. There were also accompanying pill formulas for intermediate-level alchemists—the sheer number was astronomical. Ye Xiruo felt dizzy just looking at it. New techniques for alchemy and mental cultivation were also released all at once.
"System, come out here!" I'll beat you to death. Where were you before? Issuing so many tasks all at once? Are you trying to make her watch forever?
"Originally, we were going to wait until you officially became a sixth-grade alchemist before announcing it. But I trusted you, so I announced it early. It's better to be alive sooner rather than later. It was going to be announced eventually anyway, so I'm doing this for your own good, aren't I?"
"For my own good? You know all this stuff..." No, I can't think about it, my head will explode.
"Master, keep it up! The Intermediate Edition of the Great Compendium of Medicine has a time limit. If you make it so, you will be restricted in your right to enter the space and the time and number of times you can use the Seven-Colored Divine Spring."
"I understand." At worst, she'll just activate her "study-obsessed" mode; it's no big deal. As for cultivating her spiritual power and refining pills, even if the system doesn't stop, she'll seize the time to quickly cultivate to the next level, condense her spiritual power, and refine even better pills.
"Where is the prescription?"
"You only need to be able to refine 70% of the pill formula above. You have the freedom to choose which pills are suitable for you or more beneficial to you."
"I understand." Luckily, the system didn't say to refine all the pills once, otherwise she really would have died.
Seeing Ye Xiruo's constantly changing expression, Xiu Qiyu looked at her with some concern: "Little Ye, what happened?"
"Nothing much? The system just issued some tasks."
"A task that made you unhappy?"
"No, it makes me very happy. I will soon be able to refine sixth-grade pills."
"Didn't you already have the ability to refine sixth-grade pills? You were just consolidating your foundation and repeatedly practicing fifth-grade pills."
"In fact, even if I were capable of producing sixth-grade pills, it would be difficult to refine high-grade pills, let alone top-grade pills. I wouldn't easily break through without sufficient confidence. Although for her, there are no bottlenecks whatsoever in either pill refining or cultivation."
"I trust your judgment." Other alchemists are eager to achieve breakthroughs, and at most, they refine a few familiar pills of the same grade. But Xiao Yezi? She carefully examines every pill of the same grade before diligently refining it, even if some pills are extremely obscure and she might never use them in her lifetime. Xiao Yezi persists in refining them relentlessly. What if, just what if someone is waiting for this pill to save their life?
"Let's go out! I wonder if Senior Brother will like the little surprise I gave him."
"What have you done now?"
"Why don't you go out and see for yourself?"
Ye Xiruo pulled Xiu Qiyu away from the space in a flash, and the two of them quickly appeared in a hidden cave on Zishu's Luoshan Peak.
"Let's go see our master."
"good."
Upon learning that Xiu Qiyu had successfully broken through, Jing Li merely glanced at him before continuing to admire the mellow wine in her glass.
"He lost his own life and dragged Xiao Yezi down with him." That's disgusting.
"There must be a way to improve this contract! We are a martial artist and an alchemist, respectively. Some injuries may be harmless to me, but they could be fatal to you. Isn't there a solution?"
"There should be!" Ye Xiruo's tone wasn't very certain. She would ask the system later, lest she be tricked by this unreliable guy.
Jing Li's fingers, which were like works of art, stopped, and a smile flashed across her cold and alluring face: "At least you're not beyond redemption yet, and you know how to consider Xiao Yezi. I've been thinking these past few days about whether to make you give up participating in the Heavenly Ranking Competition."
"No, Brother Xiu Qi is a chosen one of heaven, he should be shining brightly, how can he back down for my sake?"
Jing Li looked at Ye Xiruo with great disappointment. This stupid disciple of hers was really infatuated. What was so good about Xiu Qiyu that he was willing to risk his life?
"Who am I doing this for!" Jing Li sneered.
"Master~~~~" Ye Xiruo drawled out her voice, acting coquettishly, yes, she was acting coquettishly.
"Alright, alright, stop howling. The Heavenly Ranking Competition always results in more than half of the participants dying."
Ye Xiruo was also shocked by such a high mortality rate; this was truly cruel.
"The competition for the Heavenly Ranking is a contest of destiny, so no one can predict what kind of unexpected events might occur."
"Even so, we must fight for it. Otherwise, what's the point of cultivating for so many years? Only when the human race prospers and its fortune remains intact can we live a better life."
"Sigh, I'm actually a little glad now that you didn't break through to the Nascent Soul stage," Jing Li sighed.
Ye Xiruo stuck out her tongue: "Master, I'm a coward, I definitely won't go."
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