Adding Ingredients

The refining of an eighth-grade great medicine was itself an exceedingly cumbersome matter. Using the Calamity-Crossing Spirit-Transforming Pill as a foundation made it an even newer attempt, so not the slightest error could be tolerated during the process.

Before the medicinal cauldron, ghostly violet flames blazed fiercely within it. The sounds of medicinal ingredients bursting rang out without cease, while the searing heat warped the surrounding air.

Under Luo Shuang's direction, countless medicinal ingredients circled the cauldron, pouring into it one after another in sequence. The instant they were devoured by the violet flames, they turned into powder or medicinal liquid.

As Luo Shuang's grasp of the temperature grew more and more adept, the refining process accelerated. In the end, she directly divided the ingredients into eighty-one separate "streams" for extraction and refinement. Such precise control made everyone gasp softly.

Shu Lichuo was quite interested in Luo Shuang. That Calamity-Crossing Spirit-Transforming Pill had clearly been her handiwork, and she herself was the strongest alchemist Shu Lichuo had ever seen.

Yet someone like her was actually willing to remain by Bai Yu's side. One had to know that although Bai Yu was an eighth-grade Great Apothecary, his actual cultivation was only at the Void Refinement Realm.

Was it because of the Esoteric Sect?

That did not seem likely either. Luo Shuang's methods of refining medicine did not resemble those of the Esoteric Sect. Instead, they bore some resemblance to those alchemists of ancient times.

With Luo Shuang's strength and status, she would be an honored guest in any faction. Even in the Esoteric Sect, she would not receive such meager treatment.

Although Bai Yu might be some old monster from the Esoteric Sect who had crawled out of a broken tile, Shu Lichuo could not shake the strange feeling in her