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Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop! A huge cauldron was filled with golden liquid. Golden bubbles kept rising to its surface, yet it gave off no particular smell, let alone any steam.
Li Xiaoya sat in front of the cauldron, his fingers blazing with red light as they continuously spouted roaring flames, heating its underside to maintain its temperature.
Meanwhile, Zhang Hong sat cross-legged a short distance away, meditating and refining her qi.
After an unknown length of time, Li Xiaoya opened his eyes and examined the liquid in the cauldron. Suddenly, he slapped a Storage Pouch beside his feet, sending several glittering golden objects shooting out and into the golden liquid. They were diamond grass. The stalks floated on the surface, dissolving into the liquid at a rate almost imperceptible to the naked eye.
Smack! Li Xiaoya slapped another Storage Pouch, and dozens of medicinal ingredients shot out, flying straight into the golden liquid. The instant they touched it, they dissolved. Stranger still, despite all those ingredients being added, the liquid's volume did not increase at all.
Even after finishing this, Li Xiaoya did not stop the flames pouring from his hands. He closed his eyes again and continued refining in silence.
Ever since discovering the diamond grass, the two of them had been refining it. At first, although the method was very simple, they had not expected its heat requirements to be so exacting. They repeatedly failed to control the heat properly and wasted some medicinal ingredients, leaving them unable to merge with the diamond grass. Only gradually did they grow proficient. Initially, they had worked together, but the process took far too long. After discussing it, they decided to take turns: while one refined, the other would meditate and refine