Seeing Zhang Xiaohua like that, Nie Qianyu's face flushed with feigned anger. Just as she was about to speak, Zhang Xiaohua frowned and said, "Oh dear, I actually forgot about the pill refining. The three of you, please step outside for a moment. Once I'm done handling it, how about coming back in?"
Left with no choice, Nie Qianyu followed Valley Master Nie and Elder Zhang out of the pill room.
The moment they stepped out, Elder Zhang gave Nie Qianyu a thumbs-up. "Xiao Yu, you truly are clever. You actually thought of becoming his disciple. This old man never would have thought of it."
Then he said to Valley Master Nie, "Valley Master, now you know the benefits of having a daughter. Without lifting a finger, you can bring this mysterious pill-refining method into Hui Chun Valley."
Valley Master Nie shook his head. "Elder Zhang, you make it sound too simple. Even if Xiao Yu joins the Big Dipper Sect, setting aside when she might reach Young Hero Ren's level, once she enters someone else's sect, she must abide by their rules. Whether she can refine pills for us is another matter entirely. We should not place too much hope in it."
How could Elder Zhang not understand? He had merely been joking.
Inside the pill room, Zhang Xiaohua concentrated on the medicinal liquid, which had already returned to a spherical shape. He sent several incantation seals from the jade slip into it, carefully observing the changes within. The mutually generating and mutually restraining reaction between the Crimson Flame Grass and Crimson Pearl Grass became even more intense. These incantation seals were clearly accelerating it. Zhang Xiaohua stroked his chin while his other hand formed an incantation seal in the air, as though he wanted to discover something from