The Supernatural Affairs Bureau worked fast, and soon gathered and delivered the astral refining materials. Yue Wen also sent over the lists of ingredients for making the Sixfold Heavenly Thunder Crackle-and-Pop One-Shot Soul Pill and the Great Thunder Critical Strike Immortal Drink, asking the bureau to help find them. They would pay for those themselves.
It was just a favor, so naturally the bureau had no objection. Guang Zhenren immediately handed the task to his subordinates.
This was much better than shopping at the Treasure Forest. Official channels guaranteed both price and quality, unlike private organizations, where quality was hard to control, and they might even jack up the price if they saw you needed something urgently.
Unfortunately, they could not keep using this channel forever. Favors could only go so far, unless they could frequently help the bureau with missions in the future.
But the bureau had no shortage of combat personnel. It was only things like infiltrating sinister, unorthodox groups that might require their help. Again, could they really spend their whole lives undercover?
Once the materials arrived, Zhao Xing'er began Great Fire Astral Refining that very night.
She took several immortal goods inside, shut the storeroom door, and began her breakthrough according to her family's cultivation method.
Yue Wen, Qi Dian, and Big White all waited anxiously outside the door.
Before long, a shout came from inside. "Rice cooker!"
"I'll get it!" Qi Dian answered, fetching the rice cooker he had worked so hard to obtain and handing it over.
The door opened, and Xing'er reached out with one hand to take the rice cooker, then went back to work.
A while later, another shout came from inside. "Hot water!"
"Coming!" Yue Wen filled a kettle with water, heated it straight to boiling with astral qi, and