Dou Zun, Five Transformations

"Bang!"

Another explosion rang out. Kurumi barely lifted her upper eyelid, and Red Queen had already guessed her master's thoughts.

The magic-pattern network had taken control of the entire White Jade Flying Boat. With a mere thought from the little one, she could learn of everything that happened aboard.

After pondering for two seconds.

"Xiao Yan blew up another cauldron." After another two seconds of thought, Red Queen felt that her explanation was incomplete and added, "A seventh-tier pill."

Kurumi nodded. Ever since the Pill Gathering, Xiao Yan had repeatedly unleashed his potential through the Spirit Ascension Technique, as though he had entered a slump.

Logically, an experienced alchemist capable of refining an eighth-tier pill that drew five-colored lightning should have found refining a seventh-tier pill effortless.

Perhaps not with a one hundred percent success rate, but he should at least have had a seventy or eighty percent chance.

With Xiao Yan blowing up cauldrons one after another, even he himself had likely begun questioning his life.

When luck ran bad, even drinking water could get something stuck between your teeth. Choking to death on a piece of tofu was nothing new. Xiao Yan decided to calm himself and cultivate for a few days before trying again.

He had been refining a seventh-tier pill as a gift for Xiao Ning's coronation as the Illusion Rainbow Sect's Saintess.

Though such a pill was indeed somewhat shabby for the Saintess of a major sect, Xiao Yan had wanted even more to refine an eighth-tier pill.

Yet no matter what he did, he could not recapture that fleeting spark of inspiration!

Whether it was his self-doubt or his quiet cultivation, aside from Kurumi and Red Queen watching Xiao Yan, no one else would likely care.

Hmm... perhaps Xiao Ning was also thinking of