After waiting for a full day, Zou Shuniang appeared again.
She ignored Xiao Hua, returned to the drop in the pool above, recalled the Silver Crystal Needle with her spiritual thoughts, and turned around to leave.
"Can you please listen to my explanation? It's not what you think."
Xiao Hua yelled, he had to explain.
Zou Shuniang didn't speak or look back, but she stopped.
"Little sister, I admit that I lied to you at first. There is no cold poison on us."
"But I lied to you to come to the hot springs just as a friendly joke. Later I heard you scream and saw your silver crystal needle next to me. I thought you had an accident, so..."
"I really didn't mean it, I swear."
Xiao Hua touched his butt and pointed to the sky and swore that he was not a good person, but he was definitely not a pervert.
Seeing that Zou Shuniang still didn't reply, Xiao Hua added another sentence.
"I'm sorry, little sister, I shouldn't have made you angry. If you are angry and don't want to teach me how to make alchemy anymore, I won't force you. The formula of the Spiritual Pills will be my apology."
Xiao Hua felt really guilty. Even if he was not a sex demon, he still deceived Mother Zou.
"Brother Xiao, there may be some misunderstandings between us, but I don't want to keep misunderstandings. I promise to teach you how to make alchemy and I won't regret it."
"But please remember, Brother Xiao, we are just a cooperative relationship."
Zou Shuniang finally replied.
In fact, it was Mother Zou who misunderstood Xiao Hua.
Xiao Hua did not wear any clothes in the pool before, but after getting out of the water, Xiao Hua wore underpants.
The problem is that Zou Shuniang saw Xiao Hua naked before, how could she dare to look carefully again.
Naturally, he thought Xiao Hua came up without any clothes on, so he was so frightened that he ran away in panic.
When Xiao Hua heard what Zou Shuniang said, especially when he heard Zou Shuniang say that we are just a cooperative relationship, his heart suddenly felt sour, and an inexplicable sense of loss came to his heart.
"I understand that you have a Taoist companion, that Wan Lei from your Qingyun Sect, right? Don't worry, I have no thoughts about you."
Xiao Hua said this calmly, but his heart was very sour.
"What did you say? Do you know Wan Lei? How do you know Wan Lei? You, who are you?".
Zou Shuniang was shocked after eating, and she once again doubted Xiao Hua's identity as a casual cultivator.
Xiao Hua even knew her dual cultivation partner, which surprised her.
"I'm not lying to you, little sister, I'm really just a casual cultivator."
"As for Wan Lei, I met him once at the pawn shop in Qiuye Valley, when he went to help you buy a silver crystal needle. It can be seen that he loves you very much."
Xiao Hua felt sad again when he said this, and cursed in his heart, why are all the good cabbages given to pigs?
"So that's it, well, since Brother Xiao knows Wan Lei, then things will be simple."
"I think we should have no more misunderstandings. Come on, Brother Xiao, I will teach you alchemy."
Zou Shuniang's tone was very cold, and even her title changed. Brother Xiao became Brother Xiao.
"Thank you, little..., thank you, little sister Zou."
Xiao Hua also took a step back and added his surname before the younger sister.
Zou Shuniang's cave is much larger than Xiao Hua's, and it is located halfway up the mountain on the sunny side of this active volcano.
It is also a cave left by ancient builders. There are traces of old artificial excavations in many places.
This cave was divided into several different areas by Zou Shuniang with some leaves and vines.
There is also a man-made passage at the innermost end of the cave that leads to the depths of the volcano.
"Hey, little..., uh, little sister Zou, why is there a secret passage in your cave?".
Xiao Hua was curious.
"This is not a secret passage. It is a stone room with earth fire inside. It should be the alchemy room left by ancient cultivators."
"It was already there when I discovered it. I used to spend time here and improve my alchemy skills."
Zou Shuniang thought for a while after saying this.
"Actually, I have reached the critical point of forming pills. If it weren't for the spirit wood alcohol liquid and Tanglihua, I would have formed pills and left the mountain long ago."
"Have you cultivated to the critical point of forming pills? Oh, that's it."
Xiao Hua felt lost again.
After walking through the passage for about a cup of tea, they arrived at a stone room at the end of the passage.
"This is the alchemy room? What about the earth fire? Didn't you say there is earth fire here?".
Xiao Hua was slightly stunned.
He found that there was only a formation pattern on the floor of this stone room, plus a few alchemy furnaces of different sizes and some bottles and jars, without any flames.
"Brother Xiao, are you really ignorant or are you pretending not to know? Are you really just a casual cultivator who doesn't understand anything?"
Zou Shuniang frowned, she still didn't believe that Xiao Hua was a casual cultivator.
"Little sister Zou, let me tell you again, I am really a casual cultivator and I don't understand many things."
"If you don't want to say it, you don't have to say it, but please don't doubt my identity anymore, and there is no need to discriminate against casual practitioners."
"I..., I'm sorry, I don't look down on casual cultivators, I just think your identity is very mysterious, well, that's actually the case...".
Seeing Xiao Hua's face looking ugly, Zou Shuniang changed the topic.
"The spiritual fire used to refine elixirs, whether it is heavenly fire, earthly fire or elixir fire, cannot be used directly."
"The fire control array must be used to control the size and duration of the fire, so no open flames can be seen."
"Why don't you do this? I still have some alchemy materials for the Qi refining period here. I'll demonstrate them directly for you."
After finishing speaking, Zou Shuniang walked to the formation pattern on the ground and sat cross-legged. Then she took out several piles of common alchemy materials from her storage bag and placed them in front of her.
"The first step is to heat up the furnace."
Zou Shuniang shot a green light towards the fire control array on the ground.
As this green light fell into the fire control array, the entire array began to flash slightly, and several streams of flames shot up from the ground.
Zou Shuniang waved her hand and summoned an alchemy furnace on the ground to the top of the formation.
After the alchemy furnace rotated and heated up in the fierce flames, Zou Shuniang waved her hand again and summoned one of the materials she had taken out before into the alchemy furnace.
The lid of the alchemy furnace opens by itself in the air and closes automatically after the materials are put into the furnace.
"The second step is material purification. This is a very critical step. You must be familiar with the properties of each material, understand the purification time of each material, and master the heat."
"Otherwise, the material is either not fully excited, or it is over-excited, resulting in weakened properties or direct failure."
Zou Shuniang introduced it while carefully controlling the heat.
About half an hour later, Zou Shuniang drove the alchemy furnace and poured the purified material into a small pot next to it, and then put another material into the furnace.
After the second material was purified, Zou Shuniang poured the material into another small jar and continued.
After all six materials were purified and poured into different small jars, Zou Shuniang began the third step.
"The next step is the third step, which is called material synthesis."
"Brother Xiao, please read carefully, this step is very critical, because each material has different properties and needs to be added separately at a specific time."
"What I am refining now is the Huanglong Dan used in the Qi refining period. I must first put in the purified main ingredient Rehmannia glutinosa essence."
"Wait until the properties of the material are stimulated to 70%, then add Malong root, wait until the properties of the two are combined to be stimulated to 90%, and then quickly add other auxiliary materials."
Zou Shuniang said as she began to add other auxiliary ingredients.
