Xiao Yan looked at the medicinal dregs filling the cauldron and let out a long breath, doing his best to keep his emotions balanced. He opened his door and invited Huo Zhi into the room.
Upon entering, Huo Zhi noticed Xiao Yan's gloomy expression and asked, "Are you in a bad mood?"
Xiao Yan was speechless. It would have been strange if he could still be in a good mood after losing an entire batch of medicinal ingredients. Normally, someone had to stand guard while a pill was being refined, but Xiao Yan had thought that, since he was aboard the Green-Feathered Three-Tailed Sparrow, Zi Yan had gone to sleep, and neither Yan Di nor Huo Zhi had any reason to seek him out, there was no need for extra precautions. Yet he had truly been disturbed.
Xiao Yan took another deep breath and calmly said to Huo Zhi, "What does Miss Huo Zhi need from me?"
"You're a sixth-tier alchemist?" Huo Zhi asked tentatively as she looked at Xiao Yan.
Xiao Yan nodded. His open competition in alchemy with Gu He could not be concealed, and there was no need to hide his identity as an alchemist.
Seeing Xiao Yan confirm it, Huo Zhi revealed a satisfied expression.
"Then can you help me refine something?"
Huo Zhi took out something resembling a pill formula from her Storage Ring. Xiao Yan gave it a glance and discovered that it was actually a method for brewing a medicinal wine.
Xiao Yan went through the process and found that brewing this wine required quite a few medicinal ingredients, most of them fiery and scorching fire-attribute materials. There were many steps. Based on his initial assessment, as well as Huo Zhi's question, he could determine that its difficulty was roughly comparable to refining