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"Senior Brother Zhou?" The moment Qiao Ranran saw Zhou Lukang, she untwisted her fingers from their pretzel shape and waved at him with a smile. "Were you looking for me?"

Zhou Lukang blinked. If Little Spirit Jade had not still been crouching nearby, covered in needles, he might have thought what he had just seen was an illusion.

Seeing his gaze still fixed on her fingers, Qiao Ranran smiled. "I'm training my fingers to be more nimble. You could try it too, Senior Brother. It really helps with speed and precision when forming hand seals."

Zhou Lukang thought of what he had just seen and gave her an awkward but polite smile. "No, thank you." He doubted his fingers could survive that sort of practice, so he hurriedly changed the subject. "Have you been busy lately, Junior Sister?"

Qiao Ranran wiggled her fingers. "Ah, fairly busy." She had been correcting her shortcomings and fixing her mistakes according to the details Xi Lingge had pointed out. "If you need anything, Senior Brother Zhou, just say the word."

"Ah, it's nothing especially urgent. Someone liked the Elixirs you refined last time and wants another batch. I didn't agree right away. I just said I'd come back and see whether you had time." Zhou Lukang took a closer look at Qiao Ranran's cultivation, still as immovable as an old dog at the Third Layer of Qi Refining, and sighed helplessly. "He'll provide all the medicinal ingredients. By the usual rules, two sets of ingredients for one set of Elixirs. He's offering three sets, though he'll specify which Elixirs he wants."

Qiao Ranran laughed. "If he's preparing all the ingredients, there can't be many choices left!"

"..." Zhou Lukang laughed too. "So, will you take it, Junior Sister? They're all low-grade Elixirs, so the