Chapter 17: The Pill is Poisoned
"Bang!"
Gu Liyue only felt the heat coming directly from the alchemy furnace. She immediately put away the strange fire and took a big step back, but she was still blown away.
Aunt Yu looked at the door worriedly, but the door was opened. Gu Liyue had a big afro and her entire face was black except for the whites of her eyes and teeth. Her clothes were also tattered.
"Miss, are you okay?"
She saw Aunt Yu speak, and a puff of black smoke came out of her mouth: "Aunt Yu, I want to take a bath."
Xiao Xuan laughed devilishly beside him: "Hahaha! Li Yue can spit out black smoke without any training."
Gu Liyue glared at it with a dark face.
Seeing that Aunt Yu was about to say something, she had to preemptively say, "It's okay, I know what the problem is. I'll come back after I clean it up."
Fortunately, Gu Liyue's yard was in a remote place in the Gu family's home, so the furnace explosion did not attract anyone's attention.
After bathing, Gu Liyue returned to the west wing, where the mess on the floor had already been cleaned up by Aunt Yu.
Looking at the intact alchemy furnace, she felt relieved.
I had to make further adjustments. No wonder people often say that alchemy is a boring job that requires great patience and perseverance. If one step goes wrong, you have to start all over again.
This furnace explosion is even more troublesome!
The third furnace was opened, and this time the medicinal fragrance was pure, indicating that the pill was successful.
Gu Liyue still looked into the alchemy furnace and found five red pills lying quietly in the furnace, dark red and translucent.
She scooped them up and put them into a jade bottle.
I opened the door of the west wing and looked at the sky. The moon was already at its zenith and I didn't know what time it was.
She saw Aunt Yu in the yard as expected, and she invited her into the west wing.
Take out the pill and show it to her.
After reading it, Aunt Yu said happily: "Miss, you are really a genius in alchemy! The quality of this elixir has reached the second grade."
Aunt Yu saw her calm look and wondered if it was because the young lady didn't know how powerful it was to be able to refine a second-grade elixir?
She explained, "The third elder of the Gu family can only refine fifth-grade pills. The price of each lower-grade pill is very different because high-grade pills are too difficult to refine."
Gu Liyue said "Oh".
"I'm going to try out the effects of this Dantian Miasma Elimination Pill tonight."
"Miss, in two days, the Gu family will hold an engagement ceremony for the second young lady and the third prince." She looked at Gu Liyue's face, worried that she would see reluctance or sadness on her face.
But he found that her face was calm: "I understand. I will try to be able to practice by then."
Gu Liyue now has no time to pay attention to other things. She just wants to solve the problem that prevents her from practicing.
Aunt Yu nodded: "Okay, you can definitely do it."
After returning to her room, Gu Liyue asked Aunt Yu to help her guard the door so that no one could open it, and then she entered the space.
She put away the three herbs and planted the stem of the fire lotus in a newly dug small pond next to the spiritual spring to see if it could grow.
After settling everything, she took the pill and started to detoxify.
She only felt that as the pill entered her digestive system, her whole body became very hot. Xuanhuo was watching from the side and saw that her face was flushed and her brows were furrowed.
She felt the heat settle in her lower abdomen, something peeling away, the burning sensation turning into warmth. She breathed a sigh of relief, thinking the worst was over.
Unexpectedly, a strong abdominal pain hit her, and she couldn't help but groan and fell beside the spiritual spring. Xiao Xuan suddenly had an idea and said, "Liyue, hurry up, drink some spiritual spring water, it may help you."
She forced herself to stand, crawled to the spiritual spring, scooped up the water and began to drink. The abdominal pain gradually subsided.
She sat by the spiritual spring, crossed her legs and closed her eyes.
She said to Xiaoxuan with her mind: "Xiaoxuan, go to the outside of the space and guard it. If there is any big movement, come in and find me."
Xiaoxuan agreed and left the space.
Gu Liyue felt that her Dantian should be healed and the poison was gone.
Because she could feel the spiritual energy entering her dantian, she used her mind to slowly guide the spiritual energy through her meridians.
At first there was only a tiny bit, which gradually grew bigger and gathered in the dantian.
As the spiritual energy continued to wash through her meridians, she felt that her perception of the surroundings had improved a lot, and her body felt a lot more relaxed.
She vaguely felt that her cultivation was improving very quickly.
He refined Qi at the first level, the second level... until the fourth level, and finally stopped.
She opened her eyes and felt her hearing and vision sharp, her body light and full of endless energy.
She left the space and walked out of the room.
"Aunt Yu, Liyue is able to practice now. Can you see if I have reached the fourth level of Qi Refining?"
Aunt Yu's pupils shrank, and she looked at her in disbelief: "Miss, yes, you really are a genius! You've only been in there for less than a quarter of an hour, and you've already detoxified yourself, and your cultivation has risen to the fourth level of Qi Refining. I've never seen anyone as amazing as you."
"Less than a quarter of an hour?" She had always felt that the flow of time in this dimension was different from outside. Could it really be different? She felt that she had been in this dimension for at least four hours.
In this way, if one day passes outside, ten days pass in the dimension. If you cultivate in the dimension, one day of cultivation is equivalent to ten days.
That's awesome!
Aunt Yu seemed to remember something and said, "Miss, please wait for me. Madam has something for you."
Gu Liyue nodded and walked back to the room to wait for Aunt Yu.
After a while, Aunt Yu took out a Qiankun bag and handed it to her.
"This is different from the Qiankun bag you had before. Madam said that this Qiankun bag will be given to you after you are able to practice. If you take it out too early, you won't be able to keep it."
Gu Liyue thought of the original owner, who had given some of the cultivation resources left by her mother to Xiao Xianchuan, and felt ashamed.
"Also, this Qiankun bag can only be opened with your blood. Please open it quickly, Miss!"
Gu Liyue bit her finger and squeezed out a drop of blood, which dripped onto the Qiankun bag. She looked inside the bag.
He asked Aunt Yu, "Aunt Yu, can you please see if there is any magic weapon in here that can conceal my cultivation level? I don't want anyone to know that I can cultivate for the time being."
Gu Liyue didn’t have time to think about anything else now. She just wanted to use what she could use first, and then intensify her cultivation.
Aunt Yu also agreed that keeping this matter secret for the time being might help to reveal the true faces of some people. However, she felt that the young lady was a little wronged.
Having been called a "loser" for ten years, she knew how much the young lady longed to practice and how much she wanted to slap the faces of those who called her a "loser".
Geniuses can easily be wiped out before they grow up, so this decision made by the lady is the safest.
She took out a jade pendant. At first glance, it looked ordinary, even like a cheap piece. But upon closer inspection, it was discovered that its details were very delicate, as if a formation was engraved on it.
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