In front of the secret room door, Xu Zuo took a few steps with a food box in hand. After he stood still, he asked softly: "Junior sister, it's been a whole day. Do you want to open the door and see what's going on?"
In order not to reveal the location of this secret room, there were no lights in the passage. Xu Zuo approached the wall that was integrated with the stone door. After confirming the location of the door opener, he raised his hand and pressed it.
Bai Jiahe reached out to hold him, shook his head and said, "There are breath fluctuations in the secret room. Master and the others should be fine."
Xu Zuo sighed and said worriedly: "The presence of aura fluctuations does not mean anything. If spiritual materials like earth spirit roots are not placed in special containers, there will be no aura fluctuations."
Bai Jiahe's slender eyebrows furrowed, but he still shook his head, "Master said that the process of refining the alchemy cannot be disturbed in any way, otherwise it is likely to fail."
Although Xu Zuo is the senior brother, he actually listens to her junior sister on some important matters. He removed his hand from the mechanism and gently lifted the food box twice with his other hand, "It has been almost half an hour since the food was delivered. Alchemy is a laborious job. Master and the others will not be exhausted in it. "
"How is this possible? Don't forget they have the elixir..."
Bai Jiahe paused, and Shaoyao said that refining the Wanhua Dan does not take more than half a day after the furnace is opened, not counting all the preparations in the early stage. In order to save the Valley Master's uncle, the masters and the others have already prepared everything and will not waste time on preparations before starting the furnace. The difficulty of refining the elixir this time is much greater than refining the Wanhua Dan.
With a comparison in his mind, Bai Jiahe tilted his head and muttered: "How long did it take Master and Senior Sister to use it last time?"
Xu Zuo understood why Junior Sister asked, shook his head and said: "How could I know something you don't know, Junior Sister? We were all still in Huangsong Valley at that time. I didn't think of asking about this after we came back."
"But it's been more than a full day since the door closed."
Xu Zuo opened the lid of the food box, but did not feel the heat of the food with the back of his hand. He frowned and said, "The last time we heard the master's voice was at dawn. The lunch delivered now is cold. What's wrong with that?" You haven’t heard Master’s voice for several hours, right?”
It's almost five hours...
It was another sunny day in the Mengxia season outside. Everything was calm and there was no disturbance. The two senior brothers and sisters felt that they had not gone out, so starting from last night, one of them would come to the door of the secret room every once in a while to make sure. Is there any movement in the secret room? If there is anything they need to do, it would be best.
Bai Jiahe sighed softly and leaned sideways against the wall, "There are so many of them inside, and Senior Brother Mu Qing is so powerful, nothing should happen... Maybe they just don't dare to relax at all, so they are all silent." .”
Xu Zuo looked down at the food in the food box, feeling a little regretful that the food Lu Fanrou specially prepared for everyone was wasted, but he was also really worried that something bad had happened inside.
Bai Jiahe leaned his back against the wall, carefully feeling the breath fluctuations behind the wall, and said softly: "If there is still this kind of movement tonight, then even if it may disturb the master and the others, they should open it and take a look."
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In the secret room, the elixir fire was boiling, the elixir was broken, and various sounds in the medicine cauldron collided wantonly in the cauldron. They would have spread out with the fluctuation of spiritual energy, but the sounds were sealed by the layers of restrictions at the mouth of the cauldron. .
Mu Qing was sitting cross-legged in the corner. Although he had not moved his position, he had stopped concentrating his energy.
His gaze crossed Zhang Shaoyao's shoulder and landed on the medicine cauldron, never moving away.
The seventh cycle of Dan Fire had ended not long ago, but the voice of Huai Cao Shi did not sound again. While nodding to Lu Fanrou to indicate that the eighth dose of medicine could be started, he had already formed a hand seal in front of him.
Zhang Shaoyao and Senior Sister Ning changed their previous composure, raised their slender eyebrows and looked solemn. They moved their hands at the same time, and the elixir fire in the medicine cauldron instantly reached the eighth level with a "boom". Lu Fanrou, who was standing behind him, struck. He cheered up and put all the medicinal materials except the earth spirit root into the medicine cauldron.
Almost instantly, the various collisions within the medicine cauldron reached their peak.
The medicine cauldron has three legs, which is a very stable support method. However, when the various spiritual substances in the cauldron collided with the cauldron wall, it actually caused the medicine cauldron to dance on the ground.
It is now the eighth level of the elixir fire, but the elixir fire has not stopped yet. This continuous "adding fire" method, although the spiritual essence in various elixirs is quickly extracted, has also created the current medicine cauldron. extremely unstable state.
The previous worries slowly turned into reality before his eyes, but Mu Qing was no longer as nervous as he was at the beginning. He moved his eyes away from the layers of restrictions in front of the medicine cauldron and saw Huai Cao Shi's eyebrows slightly condensed, although his face was expressionless. He was dignified, but there was no trace of panic in his expression, and he felt more at peace in an instant.
This situation was obviously expected by the uncle, and he was just an amateur worrying about it.
While this thought came to Mu Qing's mind to calm his mind, the medicine cauldron was still "squeaking" on the floor of the secret room.
But when the medicine cauldron "danced" and reached the most frenzied state, as if it was about to fall to the ground in the next moment, Huai Cao Shi made a clean move. She stood in front of the medicine cauldron, surrounded by Ningchu Shaoyao and the others in a "pin" shape. Holding the medicine cauldron, he hummed softly, and placed the handprints he had made a little harder on the medicine cauldron.
Buzz——
The medicine cauldron suddenly stabilized and no longer shifted at all on the ground.
Between this movement and silence, a breath full of medicinal fragrance spread in the secret room, blowing everyone's temples and hair flying.
"This is the last prohibition."
After Huai Caoshi stopped his hand, his arms naturally hung by his side, his chest rose and fell and he let out a long breath.
After hearing her words, Shaoyao and Ningchu both nodded at the same time, a trace of urgency flashed in their eyes, but the movements of their hands were even more meticulous.
There are few reference objects in the secret room for the passage of time, so everyone's eyes are focused on the medicine cauldron.
Mu Qing's expression became nervous again in the silent silence.
He sat cross-legged behind Shaoyao and couldn't see Shaoyao's face, but he could see Ning Chu.
Refining alchemy is not a battle, nor is it a sudden sudden attack after getting close. It is about slow work and careful work, and the use of true energy does not consume a lot.
Mu Qing had never worried about this problem before, but after turning eight pill fires, Ning Chu's complexion was weakening at a speed visible to the naked eye, which was a state where the consumption of his own energy was about to reach its limit.
He withdrew his gaze and fell on the delicate back of the girl in front of him. Sure enough, he found that the threads on the girl's thin shoulders were also undulating. He had not noticed this before because all his attention was on the medicine cauldron.
"Uncle Master!"
Mu Qing spoke out for the first time after starting the alchemy process.
Lu Fanrou, who was on the side, obviously felt his worries. She turned around and took back a small porcelain bottle from the shelf nearby, and poured out two white pills.
Huai Caoshi's face was extremely calm, and his eyes swept over the faces of the two people next to the medicine cauldron, and landed on Zhang Shaoyao's face, with some hesitation in his eyes.
Because I have obtained a lot of earth spirit roots, this time the alchemy is much richer than the last time based on the principle of equal proportions. By the eighth turn of the alchemy fire, the total amount of medicine has almost doubled. Double.
And the most important thing is that she joined last time...
But joining hastily now will only immediately upset the already fragile balance.
Zhang Shaoyao's oval face was completely ruined at this moment. Cold sweat was hanging from her forehead on her long eyelashes when she lay down. She could hear the concern in the voice of brother A Liang behind her. She wanted to smile to show that she could still persist. , but he was afraid that the boy would look bad if he couldn't take it back, so he quickly blinked his big eyes to show that he could still hold on.
With her last alchemy experience, the girl believed that her senior sister and she were both prepared for long-term consumption.
Huai Cao Shi's eyes showed admiration and said softly: "Now is really not the time to replenish the energy, and this extreme consumption is also a very good experience for Shaoyao."
The voice of Huai Cao Shi is soft and gentle, with a calming power.
Mu Qing was afraid that the alchemy would fail in the end, but he was also afraid that Shaoyao and Senior Sister Ning would suffer backlash due to exhaustion, causing them to be emotionally confused and worry about gains and losses.
But the voice of Huai Cao Shi is soft and gentle, with a calming power.
He temporarily suppressed the inexplicable chaos of emotions since he woke up. His heart skipped a beat, and he realized that he had probably begun to be affected by the borrowed force. Negative emotions could easily take over and affect his thinking and actions.
The light from the elixir fire illuminated the secret room, but due to the backlight, the outline of the girl's back was somewhat blurry.
Mu Qing's chest hurt and he let out a breath of turbid air. He looked around and saw that although the girl's shoulders were shaking, it was still too early for her to lose control. It was only at this moment that he began to understand the content of Huai Cao Shi's words.
Although the inheritance of Wanhuadan has been almost cut off over the years and has to take shelter under the influence of the Hidden Valley, Shaoyaozhi has become a being who cares about its growth since it was brought back to the sparsely populated Wanhua Valley.
Whether it is Huai Fenghua or Ning Chu, they are doing their best to create a happy and relaxed environment for girls to practice and grow.
Huai Cao Shi obviously discovered this problem. Although Shaoyao was very talented in both refining medicine and practicing cultivation, except for the battle not long ago, the usual sparring with Ning Chu ended up being the same. A beautiful picture of big and small beauties having fun together.
Cultivation is like building a tall building. If the foundation and the floors below are not solid, even building to the top will be in danger. Zhang Shaoyao's practice lacks the understanding of herself at her own limit.
Zhang Shaoyao's small face had bulging cheeks. He suddenly thought that the eyes on him could not see his small face, so he let go of himself, grinning, one side of his slender eyebrows raised, and the other Her slender eyebrows dropped, trying her best to endure the itching after the burning pain in her meridians.
Mu Qing found that the girl's trembling shoulders had magically stabilized, and a strange look suddenly appeared on Senior Sister Ning's pale and pretty face. He couldn't help but want to lean forward to see what was wrong with the girl.
"very good!"
Huai Cao Shi suddenly praised the girl: "If you persist like this for a while, it will have a very obvious effect on sharpening you."
