Zixiao withdrew her gaze, looked at Li Qingyuan, and asked, "I heard that you gained quite a harvest from this trip to the Trial Ground. You even brought back an Eighth Tier Spirit Vein."
"The core of an Eighth Tier Spirit Vein generally has Eighth Tier Spirit Plants."
Zixiao continued, "I wish to brew a fine Eighth Tier Spirit Wine. The more Eighth Tier Spirit Plants, the better."
Li Qingyuan asked, "What attributes do you need, Senior Zixiao?"
Without hesitation, Zixiao replied, "I wish to brew a special Eighth Tier Spirit Wine, using Eighth Tier Spirit Plants with Five-Element Attributes as the main ingredients. Once successfully brewed, it may reach Ninth Tier Spirit Wine."
"Ninth Tier Spirit Wine?" Li Qingyuan's expression changed in shock. "Wouldn't that be comparable to a ninth-tier pill?"
Spirit Chefs and Spirit Wine Masters were, in truth, like Artifact Refiners, alchemists, Puppet Masters, and Formation Masters—among the Hundred Arts of Cultivation, though they were not part of the mainstream.
Li Qingyuan praised, "If that is truly so, would you not become the first Ninth Tier Spirit Wine Master in the Azure Profound Realm, perhaps even throughout the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths?"
Zixiao's delicate brows furrowed slightly as she said, "Unfortunately, I have only found Eighth Tier Spirit Plants of water, earth, and fire attributes so far. I am still short of two."
Li Qingyuan pondered. "Gold and wood?"
"Senior Zixiao, once this wine is successfully brewed, what effects will it have?"
Zixiao's soft lips curved upward. Light blossomed in her violet eyes, and her voice was sultry yet refined. "I have named this wine the Primordial Five Elements Paste—gold's biting chill, vegetation's freshness, flowing water's moisture, blazing flames' richness, and thick earth's mellowness."
"Five Five-Element Eighth Tier Spirit Plants, five essences of spirit plants, the