Zhu Yi sat in meditation on the hillside for less than an incense stick's time. The surrounding yin energy was so heavy that even her winter vest couldn't ward off the chilling aura.
"I'll refine a batch of pills first to get a feel for it." Unable to sit still, Zhu Yi got up and took out a mid-grade pill refining furnace. He used the lotus incantation to condense a fiery red light and envelop the furnace.
Wei Weiwei watched with great interest, carefully observing Zhu Yi's alchemy techniques.
Heating the medicine furnace, preparing herbs, and controlling spiritual fire are all routine tasks, but what's with Junior Sister scribbling on a piece of paper from time to time?
"Junior Sister seems so skilled; she must often refine pills and make medicines on a daily basis," she remarked softly.
Xue Shan agreed: "We can only prepare some simple pills to clear heat and reduce internal fire, while Junior Sister used to spend every day in the alchemy room when she was in our Hehuan Sect."
It wasn't easy for Xue Shan to say such a long string of words. She was a little tired, but she felt that the more she spoke, the smoother it became.
Xue Shan spoke cryptically, but the first lesson for disciples of the Hehuan Sect was learning how to neutralize various aphrodisiacs, so each of them would prepare some simple anti-inflammatory medicine.
Zhu Yi used to spend day and night in the alchemy room refining pills. Her spiritual energy was mixed and difficult to cultivate, and she suffered greatly every time she refined pills.
It's either that the spiritual energy isn't keeping up, or that the pill-forming technique isn't being used in time. Sometimes, Zhu Yi wastes too many pills, so she has to do more sect missions to accumulate spirit stones and buy medicinal herbs to refine pills again.
As Wei Weiwei listened to Xue Shan's intermittent account of Zhu Yi's past studies in alchemy at the Hehuan Sect, she couldn't help but feel admiration.
She hadn't been very diligent in her cultivation at the Hehuan Sect before, and she wasn't very familiar with Zhu Yi, so she hadn't paid attention to these things.
After arriving at the Tianlan Sect, they felt that since everyone came from the Hehuan Sect, they trusted each other more and became familiar with one another.
Wei Weiwei's family never lacked her allowance or expenses. Sometimes, her grandfather would even give her extra money to his illegitimate children.
She found it hard to believe that Zhu Yi, a young lady from a prestigious family, would have to complete tasks to accumulate spirit stones even to learn alchemy and medicine making...
Those days must have been very difficult.
Unconsciously, she felt a pang of pity as she looked at Zhu Yi's busy figure refining pills.
"My junior sister's life isn't easy either. If she can learn alchemy, I should be able to too."
Xue Shan nodded: "Yes, you can do it too. You also have...fire spirit root, so it's very convenient for you to learn alchemy."
Wei Weiwei was overwhelmed with an indescribable emotion. Standing on a gray hillside, she suddenly realized many possibilities for her future.
“Even if I can’t become a top-tier alchemy master, if I can cultivate to the level of a master alchemist, I can still prescribe medicine and cure many people!” Wei Weiwei said with a determined look in the face of the biting cold wind on the hillside.
“My hometown, Lincheng, is a remote little village called Guaijiao Village.” Xue Shan carefully recounted her impoverished hometown. “There, when people get sick, they can only tough it out. Those who are brave enough can go to the mountains to find some spiritual herbs and plants to eat, and they can barely get through it.”
"There are actually such barren places?" Wei Weiwei's big, bright eyes were full of curiosity. How could there be people in the cultivation world who couldn't even afford elixirs?
Xue Shan was a little embarrassed: "It takes a long time to find an intermediate alchemist to treat patients in our area. Someone with your alchemy level is nothing special here. They are very rare to find a doctor in our area."
There was no sunrise or sunset within the Yin Soldier Realm, so Wei Weiwei had lost track of what time it was outside. She suddenly found it incredible that the intermediate-grade pills she took for granted were so hard to find in Xue Shan's hometown.
The world of cultivation is vast, but she has been to very few places and encountered very few people and events.
It turns out that the boring and tedious days she found were what others dreamed of.
I always feel that other people's dramatic experiences sound very exciting and epic, but when it comes to my own, it seems that I don't have anything worth talking about.
Wei Weiwei pondered silently. Last time her mother wrote, she said that her brother and his friends had gone out to gain experience. Her brother, who was at the Foundation Establishment stage, should be able to travel to many places and experience many interesting things, right?
Junior Sister is skilled in many things. Everyone says she's lucky to have become a disciple of Master Yujing, which is truly enviable.
Actually, that's not the case. Along the way, Wei Weiwei has seen with her own eyes that her junior sister knows a lot of things, which shows that she usually works very hard.
She can wield high-grade magical artifacts, and when fighting, she can always adapt flexibly to use either a sword or a knife. She can also refine pills to sell... She even finds time to study talisman drawing.
Thinking about this, Wei Weiwei felt that her world was so small and her efforts so insignificant...
"Bang bang bang!" Several loud noises rang out. Before Xue Shan and Wei Wei Wei could dodge, a huge heat wave hit them head-on, and the fiery impact was accompanied by a strong aroma of medicinal pills.
The scorching heatwave, which nearly shook the heavens and earth, blasted the three sisters into three little black balls.
Zhu Yi spat out the sand in her mouth and quickly got up to check on Xue Shan and Wei Weiwei.
Their neat clothes had been blown to pieces. After the dust settled, Zhu Yi saw the two sisters helping each other out of the sand and heat.
"Junior Sister, are you alright?" Two anxious, dark faces appeared before Zhu Yi at the same time.
"I'm fine, how about you guys?" Zhu Yi was really embarrassed. Her friends' first reaction wasn't to blame her, but to show concern. This feeling was truly touching.
Xue Shan stretched out her arms and jumped around in place, shaking off the excess sand and dirt from her body, and shook her head.
"Junior Sister, does your furnace always explode when you refine pills?" Wei Weiwei remembered a post on the Jade Spirit Scroll that said a new disciple was sorting medicinal herbs in the pharmacy and ended up blowing up the iron pots and wooden doors of the pharmacy.
Later she learned that the person who caused the explosion was her junior sister. She didn't believe it at first, and even went to Zhu Yi with all her heart to ask for help in refining the pills for her training trip.
Zhu Yi was embarrassed to constantly criticize her own dark past and shook her head, saying she didn't have any.
"Then... when you helped me refine the pills last time, did any of them explode? If so, you must tell me." Wei Weiwei said earnestly.
"Really, I don't do that often..." Zhu Yi retorted again.
"I will compensate you for the cost of the alchemy furnace."
Wei Weiwei didn't listen to her, instead looking worried: "Junior Sister, how many pill furnaces do you think I would have to blow up to reach your level of proficiency?"
Zhu Yi couldn't explain it clearly, so she pursed her lips slightly and simply told Wei Weiwei to buy several more mid-grade, high-grade, and superior-grade alchemy furnaces after she left, so that she could use them if she wanted to learn alchemy.
Wei Weiwei looked like she was learning something and took notes carefully.
Zhu Yi hurried to the place where the pills were being fried to check on the batch of Vitality Pills she had refined.
"I've never refined this kind of pill before. I just learned it from the 'Collection of Formulas for Saving the World'." Zhu Yi rummaged through the hot sand and found seven pure white and fragrant pills.
It's about the size of a quail egg and has an enticing aroma.
Wei Weiwei curiously leaned over to ask, but before she could even get a clear look at the pills, a green vine flashed past her eyes and with a "whoosh," the seven pills in Zhu Yi's hand were snatched away and disappeared.
Zhu Yi hurriedly reached into her waist and pulled out two more pills.
The old vine tree refused to hand over the remaining Life Essence Pills no matter what.
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