The assessment of the five great families had come to an end.
However, the Pill Gathering still had not begun. They needed to wait another ten days.
The reason was that the alchemists who had passed the tests at branch towers across the land needed time to reach Sacred Pill City in the Pill Domain of the Central Continent to participate in the Pill Gathering.
During those ten days, through the continual use of Spirit Nurturing Dust, Xin Lan's soul realm steadily improved, though she still had not reached the level of an Eighth-Rank Alchemist.
Because she cultivated the Heaven and Earth Great Shift Technique, Xin Lan's control over her Soul Power was exceedingly precise. Combined with the cultivation method Bai Ge had tailored specifically for her identity as an alchemist—
Compared with ordinary alchemists, Xin Lan's success rate in refining Pills and the quality of her finished Pills were both much higher than those of alchemists at the same level.
And during those ten days—
Because Xin Lan had taken the initiative, after they pierced through that final layer of separation, their relationship advanced by leaps and bounds.
Although Bai Ge was not particularly passionate about matters between men and women, neither did he resist them.
However, having just tasted the forbidden fruit, Xin Lan was rather infatuated with such matters, clinging to Bai Ge every night.
When Bai Ge suddenly acted on a whim and used the dual cultivation Secret Technique he had obtained long ago, the Xuanyuan Imperial Immortal Art, he discovered that it could also increase their strength. Xin Lan became even more delighted.
Yet for Xin Lan, while she was indeed somewhat infatuated with such matters due to experiencing them for the first time—
More importantly, she felt that only during this period of participating