The next day.

Qin Gengyun woke up, got up from the bed, and saw Qiu Zhihe still with her back to him, seemingly still sleeping soundly.

Without waking her up, Qin Gengyun simply washed up and went out.

When we arrived at Lingdanfang, it was very busy today. Everyone had arrived just after noon.

Even Wang Ping and Xu Li came in on time, picked up the brooms and started cleaning the yard with great energy.

Qin Gengyun asked Wang Ping, "Is the abbot back?"

Wang Ping chuckled, "Fellow Daoist Qin, you report on time every day, but I didn't know that the master came back last night. It is said that the Bingqing Pill was sold for 65 spirit stones, and the other party ordered two more. The master will probably come to make the pill today."

Qin Gengyun's eyes lit up: "The master is going to make an elixir today?"

He failed at the refining step last night. If he could enter the alchemy room and do odd jobs while the master was refining the elixir today and observe, perhaps he could gain some insights.

However, Qin Gengyun was just an alchemist, a handyman among handymen, and usually not qualified to enter the alchemy room.

In the past, he had to hide outside the door and peek, but he couldn't see clearly. Now that he has carried out his first practical operation, he is eager to observe the refining process of the high-level alchemist.

This would be of great benefit to him.

At this time, a male cultivator in a fine brocade Taoist robe walked in from outside the gate. He had a handsome face, a slender figure, and three long beards on his temples and chin. He stroked his beard with his hands as he walked in, giving him a Taoist-like temperament.

"Master!" Everyone bowed.

This man's name is Pei Daoyu, and he is the owner of Lingdanfang.

Qi training level 4, second-level alchemist.

Such cultivation level and alchemist realm are considered quite good among the casual cultivators in Yunling Town.

Going further up, there are the monks from big forces and big sects.

The short and fat Yang Fengshan followed behind Pei Daoyu, also wearing a fine brocade Taoist robe, but his figure and temperament were very different.

Pei Daoyu ignored them and walked straight into the alchemy room. Yang Fengshan, on the other hand, shouted at them:

"Listen carefully! No one is allowed to disturb Master without my order!"

Then he glanced around again and pointed at Fang Chao:

"Old Fang, come in and serve!"

When the master of the temple was refining important elixirs, he would occasionally ask people to come in to do odd jobs, such as fetching medicinal materials, adding elixir stones, etc.

It seems that the master of the shop really wants to refine the Bingqing Pill today. One pill costs sixty-five spirit stones. It is naturally extremely important to make such a profit.

Old Man Fang coughed twice and quickly responded.

Qin Gengyun suddenly stepped forward and said to Yang Fengshan, "Manager Yang, Fellow Daoist Fang is not feeling well. How about I go in for him?"

Fang Chao looked at Qin Gengyun with gratitude. It was indeed tiring for Qin Gengyun to serve in the alchemy room with his body.

Yang Fengshan looked at Qin Gengyun and said, "Whoever I call is whoever I call. It's your turn to give instructions."

After saying that, Fang Chao ignored Qin Gengyun, nodded helplessly at Qin Gengyun, and followed Yang Fengshan into the alchemy room with a bitter face.

The others also went to their work. Qin Gengyun was silent for a moment, then walked to the window of the alchemy room with a broom. While sweeping the floor, he concentrated his mind and controlled his spiritual sense to penetrate into the window.

He moved very carefully, and stopped as soon as his spiritual sense entered the window an inch. After all, Fei Daoyu was at the fourth level of Qi training, and if his spiritual sense was too close to the other party, he would be easily discovered.

"Master, Qin Gengyun wanted to come in just now, but I saw that he was acting sneaky, so I didn't agree."

As soon as his spiritual consciousness entered, he heard Yang Fengshan's voice.

Qin Gengyun was speechless. He had never offended Yang Fengshan before. Was it necessary for him to say bad things about him in front of the abbot?

This kind of people just want to win credit in front of their leaders and show that they are loyal to their duties, and they are willing to use others as cannon fodder.

In the chemical factory where Qin Gengyun worked in his previous life, the team leader above him was also such a person. He would hang around the leader all day long, complain about him for no reason, and everyone under him was annoyed by him.

Later one day, this guy was put in a sack, beaten, and thrown into a gutter on his way home.

At this time, in the alchemy room, Pei Daoyu just hummed, and then said:

"Let's get started."

Soon there was no more talking inside. After a while, the fire started and Yang Fengshan instructed Old Man Fang to put the herbs into the furnace.

Qin Gengyun withdrew his spiritual sense, stopped guarding, and went to clean the backyard.

A second-grade elixir like Bingqingdan requires more than one or two kinds of medicinal ingredients, and the "chemical medicine" alone takes at least two hours.

Qin Gengyun only needs to observe from the "refining" step, there is no need to watch it now.

Two hours later, Qin Gengyun took a broom and began to "clean" the area around the alchemy room again.

Standing by the window, he carefully controlled his spiritual sense to enter the room.

Move forward slowly.

He was always ready to withdraw his spiritual sense immediately if the situation went wrong.

However, the spiritual consciousness was able to explore forward smoothly. It seemed that the master was concentrating on the alchemy furnace and had no time to take care of other things.

Qin Gengyun became bolder and controlled his spiritual sense to move forward. He saw the alchemy furnace. Next to it was Yang Fengshan waving a spiritual fan. Old Man Fang was on the other side, covering his mouth, as if he was trying hard to hold back a cough, which was quite difficult.

The abbot sat in front of the alchemy furnace, his eyes staring straight at it, and his spiritual consciousness should have entered the furnace.

Qin Gengyun's spiritual sense was not strong enough and the distance was too far, so it was unable to penetrate into the alchemy furnace.

However, even so, one can already feel the changes in the spiritual power when the master refines it.

After an hour, Qin Gengyun was no longer able to support his spiritual consciousness out of his body, so he had to retract it.

But the close observation just now was enough for him to understand since he was only at the first level.

Qin Gengyun no longer stood outside the alchemy room and went to work.

When it was time to end the shift at Youshi, the abbot and his two companions had not yet come out of the alchemy room. Everyone in the abbot was a little hesitant, not knowing whether they should end the shift and go home, or wait for the abbot to come out.

This is just like the companies Qin Gengyun worked in in his previous life, where the boss was still working overtime and the employees were too embarrassed to leave early.

However, Qin Gengyun was in a hurry to go home to make the elixir, so he couldn't help himself and left on his own.

He first went to buy a piece of Qingling grass, and then quickly returned to the narrow rain alley.

After entering the house, Qiu Zhihe came out of the kitchen, holding an iron pot in both hands, with freshly cooked porridge in the pot.

Qin Gengyun said: "Fellow Daoist Qiu, you can eat first, you don't have to wait for me."

After saying that, he couldn't wait to walk into the kitchen, clean the alchemy furnace, light the alchemy stone, and start the alchemy fire.

Tonight he will try to refine Qingfeng Powder again.

Fan the fire-controlling spirit fan, wait for the elixir fire to burn vigorously, and then throw the Qingling grass into the elixir furnace.

This time, Qin Gengyun's efficiency improved a lot. Half an hour later, all the Qingling grass turned into medicinal liquid.

Finally, we have arrived at the most critical step - refining!

Qin Gengyun held his breath and concentrated, controlling his spiritual consciousness to penetrate into the alchemy furnace.

The spiritual consciousness slowly entered the medicine liquid, peeling out the impurities bit by bit.

This process is much more difficult than chemical medicine, but the efficiency is also much higher than last night. After an hour, Qin Gengyun had removed more than half of the impurities in the medicine.

Outside the kitchen, Qiu Zhihe sat quietly at the table, her bare hands gently placed under the iron pot. A barely visible red flame emerged from her palm, making the porridge in the pot, which should have been completely cold, still steaming.

In the kitchen, Qin Gengyun's forehead was covered with sweat, and there was only a little bit of impurities left in the medicine.

Success or failure depends on now!