She Was a Genius

She Was a Genius. Thinking back, which one of them had not been put through the wringer by Senior Sister Huang Mei? Even if a leaf curled slightly or the roots failed to meet the requirements, she would keep them in the spirit plant room for devilish training.

Jiang Lu looked at their expressions, the corner of her mouth twitching.

Senior Sister Huang Mei really was not that terrifying.

Everyone: They didn't believe it!

"Junior Sister Lu, how did it feel?"

Perhaps because the atmosphere around them was somewhat stiff, Chen Qi came over to ask Jiang Lu.

Jiang Lu looked at him with a grin. "Senior Brother Qi, I think Senior Sister Huang Mei is very nice. After I finished sorting the spirit plants, I watched Senior Sister refine pills. I learned quite a lot today."

"That's good, then."

Chen Qi gave an awkward laugh, groaning inwardly.

Junior Sister Jiang Lu and Senior Sister Huang Mei were the same kind of people! His body could not help but shudder, as though he could see endless pressure crashing down upon him.

At this moment, he still did not know that the age of ruthless competition centered around Jiang Lu was already beginning to take shape.

At this moment, he cheerfully returned to his own spot.

Jiang Lu noticed the borders beneath their feet and silently committed them to memory. Just like the medicinal garden, some damaged spirit plants could probably be kept for oneself.

"Fellow cultivator, even if this pill furnace of yours is repaired, it won't be able to refine pills more than a few times."

The man looked at the two pill furnaces Jiang Lu had handed over.

Jiang Lu shook her head, a trace of helplessness in her tone.

"Boss, I know. It's just that I really... I only want to give it a try."

Seeing this, the man shook his head and said no more.

He was long accustomed to the straitened circumstances of poor Rogue Cultivators. If they lacked the talent, there truly was no need to buy a pill furnace.

It only cost ten low-grade spirit stones to repair them. They would not last more than a few uses anyway, so naturally the price was not high.

Jiang Lu hugged the pill furnaces to her chest before leaving.

Once she returned to her room, she took out the spirit plants she had processed earlier. She planned to refine the most basic Grain-Avoidance Pill.

This was also the choice most cultivators made for their first attempt at pill refinement. It was a Grade-One Pill, and the spirit plants required were not particularly complicated. The main ingredient was spirit rice.

With a flick of her hand, two red glimmers flashed at her fingertips, and she poured spiritual power into the pill furnace.

Chi Li and Cangchen hugged spirit stones as they watched from the side, their eyes wide and round.

Could the scorching sensation brought by such pure spiritual power really belong to a cultivator at the Qi Refinement Middle Stage?

Worthy of a Chaos Body!

It was just...

The pill furnace was suffering.

Following the instructions in the book, Jiang Lu recalled Huang Mei's movements when refining pills and sent spirit flame into the pill furnace.

As the temperature rose, she tossed the spirit plants into the pill furnace.

The spirit plants gradually melted into spirit liquid. Her expression sharpened, and she immediately wielded spiritual power to condense it.

Feeling the pill furnace tremble, she was startled. Hadn't they said this pill furnace could be used two or three times?

This was only her first use!

Sure enough, cheap goods were never good goods.

But she had already reached the later stage of the process. She used spiritual power to stabilize the changes in the pill furnace while the spirit flame continued burning, then gradually lowered the temperature once it reached the proper point.

The time had come...

Jiang Lu immediately withdrew the spirit flame and opened the pill furnace. A burst of fragrance wafted out, and she sniffed.

Ten round, plump pills appeared in her hand from within the pill furnace.

Ten... High-Grade Pills!

Jiang Lu stared at the pills in her hand, frozen where she stood.

Could it be that she was also a pill-refining genius?

Chi Li and Cangchen hurried over as well, staring at the pills in her hand again and again.

Then they looked at her, still standing there in a daze.

They had heard what that cultivator had said while repairing the pill furnaces. Could their master truly be a genius?

They sniffed again. It smelled so good!

Jiang Lu looked at them with amusement and handed one pill to each of the little creatures.

"Eat."

Chi Li and Cangchen took them and immediately tossed them into their mouths.

So delicious!

Jiang Lu watched them with a smile, then swallowed one herself.

As expected of High-Grade Pills!

They really were so delicious!

She put the rest into a bottle for safekeeping.

Jiang Lu looked at the pill furnace before her, which was already on the verge of becoming scrap, and the corner of her mouth twitched. It really had become scrap, hadn't it?

She then took out the other pill furnace, which also became completely useless after refining one batch.

It was just...

Looking at the ten High-Grade Pills in her hand again...

She was a genius, wasn't she?

There was absolutely no mistake about it!

Those two pill furnaces were nowhere near as valuable as these pills in her hand.

She looked at the two Spirit Beasts, their faces full of satisfaction, and rubbed their cheeks.

"Do you think I'm a genius? I refined ten High-Grade Pills on my very first try!"

Chi Li and Cangchen nodded, saying with great certainty, "Definitely!"

If this was not genius, then what was? For some reason, they felt Jiang Lu's talent extended beyond pill refinement. Could it be that she could do everything?

It was not impossible. The two of them glanced at Jiang Lu. It was good that she had come from the Lower Realm!

As long as she did not court death, it was only a matter of time before they returned to the Upper Realm.

Hehehe~

They would let those people see what a true genius was! Those trash who called themselves geniuses were due for a beating!

And this genius!

Was their master!

By that logic, genius meant them!

The two beasts simultaneously revealed wicked grins. Hehehehe~

Jiang Lu could not help but rub her forehead at the sight.

Her two contracted beasts seemed a little too chuuni.

She stopped paying attention to them and turned to look at the two ruined pill furnaces.

Logically, her two pill furnaces should not have broken down so quickly. Thinking of the High-Grade Pills just now...

Perhaps it was related to the pills she had refined, or perhaps it was related to her spirit flame.

The spirit flame she had sent into the pill furnace just now was clearly hotter than Senior Sister Huang Mei's.

That meant her spirit flame was purer than Senior Sister Huang Mei's.

The corners of her lips rose slightly before quickly flattening again. Had she not already noticed the anomaly in her Spiritual Roots?

Thinking of the web novels she had read before, Spiritual Roots like these were usually accompanied by an exceptionally powerful spiritual body. And a spiritual body capable of absorbing anything existed only in legends—the Primal Chaos Spiritual Body...

She did not know whether such a spiritual body existed in the Immortal Cultivation Realm, but it should be something similar. Ordinary people would find it difficult to notice, but some old monsters who had lived for a long time might be able to see through it.

If she had merely possessed ordinary Mixed Spiritual Roots before, she might not have had such concerns. But now that she had discovered the anomaly in her Spiritual Roots, Medicine King Pavilion was undoubtedly a relatively safe place until she had fully grown stronger.

Jiang Lu put away the two ruined pill furnaces, returned to her meditation cushion, and began to meditate.

Cultivators did not need sleep. Meditation was the most relaxing posture. She did not know about anyone else, but she was bursting with energy the next day.

Worthy of the Immortal Cultivation Realm—every hour of the day could be put to use.

She could not afford not to compete. The Immortal Cultivation Realm had countless gifted prodigies; who knew when she might become someone else's stepping stone?

Since she was already here, if she did not make something of herself, would she not have come for nothing? Setting everything else aside, the pursuit of immortality would surely be her lifelong goal.

Spiritual power circulated endlessly through her body, and her heart gradually calmed...

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