Le Xi was still diligently meditating and cultivating, thinking every day about how to break through the restrictions and missing her senior sister.
Over there, Nian Wanzhou spends her days happily running, exercising, eating, and sleeping—it's so fulfilling and comfortable, a stark contrast to someone else.
Lexi: Envy, jealousy, and hatred...
On this day, Nan Yu finally brought Nian Wanzhou, who had completed his body tempering, to the Fourth Elder.
"Master, I've memorized everything on the jade pendant, and I've brought Wanwan with me too!" Nanyu excitedly handed the jade pendant, which she had memorized, to the Fourth Elder.
The Fourth Elder's eyes were glued to Nian Wanzhou, completely ignoring Nan Yu: "Alright, alright, everyone, please sit down."
The jade pendant contains records of many medicinal herbs, spiritual fruits, elixirs, and alchemy secrets, including some extremely rare formulas. Moreover, each item is used at different times and requires different medicinal ingredients, so the requirements are also different for each.
Therefore, Nan Yu had been memorizing it for at least half a month.
"Fourth Elder, what do you want to do by calling me here?" Nian Wanzhou sat down with a look of fear, looked around the alchemy room, and vaguely felt that something unusual seemed to be going on today.
The Fourth Elder withdrew his gaze and said with a smile, "I just saw that you had nothing to do, and the First Elder didn't have time to teach you, so I planned to ask you to come and assist me. Don't panic, you're also cultivating your body here, so why not assist me and you can also temper your character."
That makes sense, but something just doesn't feel right to her.
It really gave off that feeling of a lamb being led into the tiger's den, and the Fourth Elder's laughter was chilling.
Nian Wanzhou didn't dare to ask any more questions, and simply nodded and replied, "Yes."
The Fourth Elder smiled with satisfaction, then had Nan Yu take Nian Wanzhou to the medicine furnace, while he went to the inner room to find other alchemy furnaces.
The Fourth Elder is the most talented and best alchemist in the Dan Ding Sect. His alchemy furnace is naturally of high quality, not only fast but also of very high grade, making it a rare treasure.
His alchemy furnaces are divided into three types: the first is the top-level alchemy furnace, which is used to refine high-grade pills; the second is the upper-level alchemy furnace, which is used to refine top-grade pills; and the third is the middle-level alchemy furnace, which is used to refine ordinary pills and low-grade pills.
The intermediate-level alchemy furnaces are all prepared for disciples above the Golden Core stage. The one he uses himself is a divine-level alchemy furnace that a friend forged for him a long time ago, and he doesn't use it easily.
What he was looking for this time was an ordinary alchemy furnace for Nian Wanzhou, similar to the one Nan Yu had.
When he finally found it and came out, he saw the brother and sister working together. One was preparing to refine the elixir, while the other was organizing the herbs and other materials, all in a very organized manner.
This was Nan Yu's first time refining pills, and he had been preparing for it for a long time.
He seemed calm but was also very excited. He was calm because he was able to prepare the spiritual plants properly; he was excited because he almost knocked over the alchemy furnace.
I was a bit flustered.
Nan Yu finally prepared the spiritual plants, sat up firmly, and looked at the Fourth Elder: "Master, I'm all ready, may we begin?"
"Let's begin." The Fourth Elder nodded and sat down to watch.
"Okay." Nan Yu took a deep breath, held the spiritual plant in both hands, and threw it into the alchemy furnace. Then she circulated her spiritual power to control the fire.
Nian Wanzhou: ...
After the spiritual plant was thrown in, it rolled around in the alchemy furnace until it finally stopped.
This is an ordinary alchemy furnace, but Nan Yu heated it to an exceptionally high temperature using fire elemental power. It was scalding hot, and you could even see the outside turning red.
"Keep the temperature low and conserve your spiritual energy," the Fourth Elder instructed.
"Okay, Master, I understand!" Nan Yu quickly lowered the flames and then used her spiritual power to adjust them.
The heat in the alchemy furnace immediately decreased, but Nian Wanzhou couldn't resist reaching out to touch it, then quickly withdrew her hand, silently complaining, "It's still so hot!"
The Fourth Elder was puzzled. Wasn't this disciple supposed to have a wood elemental root? How come his fire elemental root is so powerful?
Wow, that's some serious firepower...
He was a little worried about whether the alchemy furnace could withstand his foolish apprentice's fierce fire, but he continued to observe patiently so as not to distract his apprentice.
Nan Yu stared intently at the alchemy furnace, sweat beading on his forehead, gritting his teeth and enduring the pain.
Finally, the alchemy furnace began to slowly emit smoke, but it showed no signs of stopping and continued to burn slowly.
Nian Wanzhou squatted to the side watching, her face flushed red from the light of the spiritual fire, but she didn't think anything of it.
Finally, the spiritual fire in the alchemy furnace began to diminish and slowly stopped, then a plume of black smoke emerged.
Nan Yu was so startled that she quickly took a few steps back, a wave of tension and fear washing over her. "Pfft!"
A crisp sound rang out, the black smoke dissipated, and the lid of the alchemy furnace, unlike the lids of the other senior brothers' furnaces, did not reveal the pills; instead, it remained tightly closed.
There was also a burnt smell coming from it.
Clearly, Nan Yu has failed in his alchemy attempt.
He opened the lid with a sense of disappointment. Inside were some charred things, which he could barely make out as spiritual plants.
“Master…” Nan Yu put down the lid dejectedly.
"It's alright, disciple. Very few people succeed on their first try. You don't need to be discouraged. Your senior brothers and sisters all practiced dozens, even hundreds of times before they succeeded. Try again," the Fourth Elder encouraged Nan Yu.
He could tell that Nan Yu had great talent, but her control over spiritual power and the timing of the fire was not yet proficient. She would be fine after a few more tries.
The Fourth Elder personally instructed Nan Yu on these techniques and gave her careful instructions before allowing her to continue refining pills.
Nan Yu dared not slack off and continued to dedicate herself to the task diligently.
The Fourth Elder was very pleased to see his disciple working so hard.
However, a "bang" sound echoed throughout the alchemy room, and Nan Yu failed dozens of times in a row.
These failures only made him more determined, and he gradually began to learn the basic steps of refining pills and how to better infuse spiritual energy into them.
Time passed slowly, and soon a day was over.
Nan Yu had refined it countless times; he was so exhausted that he lay on the ground panting, but he still managed to refine a perfectly round pill.
Medium-quality fasting pills.
The Fourth Elder held the only Bigu Pill in his hand. Its shape and quality were quite good, which was excellent for Nan Yu, who was refining pills for the first time.
"Disciple, take a rest for a while," the Fourth Elder said.
"No, Master, I want to refine it a few more times." Nan Yu shook his head. He felt that he still had spiritual energy in his body, and he could take advantage of the feeling to continue refining pills.
The Fourth Elder disagreed: "Listen to your master, rest, write down today's issues, and go back to consolidate them. It's getting late, you can't do anything reckless, understand? Alchemy can't be rushed, and this is your first time alchemy. If you can succeed in one day, that would be a great achievement."
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