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When Ai Qinglan walked up before everyone, she was covering her nose. Perhaps it was the effect of that ointment, but her nose was now running nonstop, with a faint strange odor to boot. She had no intention of sealing up the snot with mana; instead, she vigorously flung it out. This left her looking rather... unpresentable.
But she called to everyone, "Quick, let's go. I finally know the secret of the awakening method. I need empirical proof..."
Chen Feng kindly reminded her, "You just received a set of memories. You'd better let them settle first..."
"No, no, no, no, no." Ai Qinglan shook her head fiercely, then said, "Little Feng, listen. Those Nan Clan memories may be important, but compared to that secret, they are worth far less. Besides, it's not as though this stuff can't be inhaled again... Hurry, hurry, hurry! Someone from Burning Gold Valley, I need to analyze some substances."
A cultivator from Burning Gold Valley stepped forward. Curious, everyone simply crowded around Ai Qinglan and followed her toward her temporary empirical research department.
In the distance, Gongsun Dang smiled and nodded. "She discovered the essence in one go..."
On the way back to the empirical research department, Ai Qinglan's nose seemed to return to normal, and it stopped running. She rushed into her department and first took out a bottle of solvent—it seemed it should have been ****. Ai Qinglan gently picked a little from the clay jar and dropped it into the solvent. Before long, the lipids dispersed and dissolved in the water. Within the pale yellow viscous solution were also some exceedingly tiny particles.
Those ought to have been things like spices.
Ai Qinglan lightly tapped the solvent bottle with a