Lu Zuichang sealed his six senses, so naturally, he couldn't hear Zi Linling's sarcastic remarks.
"Calm down! Calm down! Calm down..."
He kept telling himself, and the anger simmering within him gradually dissipated.
Zi Linling cursed a few more times before realizing that Lu Zuichang had no reaction.
Sealed his six senses?
What a pity!
If he could be angered to death, it would save a lot of trouble.
Zi Linling shook her head and sat down to rest with her eyes closed.
She wasn't in a hurry to refine pills; there were still three days.
Moreover, she had just discovered that the medicinal ingredients Lu Zuichang had taken out were for refining quasi-Emperor grade pills.
Quasi-Emperor grade?
Could it be...
Zi Linling had a guess in her heart.
However, she remained outwardly calm.
Half an hour passed in the blink of an eye.
Lu Zuichang let out a long sigh and began to arrange the medicinal ingredients in his hands.
Zi Linling still hadn't made a move, and her closed eyes didn't even twitch.
"Hmph! Putting on a show!"
Lu Zuichang glanced at Zi Linling inadvertently, a hint of disdain appearing on his lips.
He had learned his lesson this time and only mocked her internally, not speaking aloud.
After organizing the medicinal ingredients, Lu Zuichang began to preheat the furnace.
Any pill furnace, regardless of its quality, must undergo the process of preheating before refining.
This can raise the internal temperature of the furnace evenly, preventing the rapid loss of medicinal properties due to low or uneven temperatures when the herbs are introduced into the furnace.
Of course, preheating has another function: awakening.
It awakens the state of the pill furnace and also awakens the dormant medicinal properties within the herbs.
It's like warming a cup and a pot before brewing tea.
Lu Zuichang finished preheating the furnace and glanced at Zi Linling again, only to find that she still hadn't moved.
"Hmph! I hope it stays this way until the end of the refining process!"
He muttered in his heart and began to extract the medicinal ingredients.
The pill Lu Zuichang intended to refine today was the quasi-Emperor grade pill, the Purple Sunflower Breaking Calamity Pill.
This pill was quite niche, mainly used to break illusions and illusion formations.
The reason Lu Zuichang chose to refine this pill was that before the competition, his grandfather, Lu Bingcheng, had given him a Purple Sunflower Breaking Calamity Pill.
Of course, with his skill, refining Master-grade pills was already his limit.
Therefore, when refining the Purple Sunflower Breaking Calamity Pill, he was just going through the motions. At the crucial moment, he would send the real Purple Sunflower Breaking Calamity Pill into the Imperial Artifact Skyfire Furnace, and the rest would take care of itself.
Of course, he wasn't worried about losing.
Firstly, Zi Linling didn't have the medicinal ingredients to refine the Purple Sunflower Breaking Calamity Pill.
Secondly, Lu Bingcheng had a backup plan and would never allow Zi Linling to refine a pill.
A day passed.
Lu Zuichang had refined one-third of all the medicinal ingredients.
In contrast, Zi Linling had remained motionless.
"She knows she's going to lose, so she's given up?"
The smug look on Lu Zuichang's face became even more pronounced.
He rested briefly, and after his soul force recovered somewhat, he continued to refine the remaining medicinal ingredients.
Another night passed, and only a few dozen medicinal ingredients remained in front of Lu Zuichang.
His face was pale, clearly indicating that his soul force had been overused.
But he had to grit his teeth and persist, finishing the extraction of the remaining dozens of medicinal ingredients.
This way, when his soul force recovered again, he could directly proceed to the pill melting stage.
Zi Linling finally opened her eyes and stood up, stretching her limbs as she said, "I slept so comfortably!"
The crowd erupted in murmurs.
So, Zi Linling had been sleeping for this entire day and night!
Many people shook their heads and began to lose hope for Zi Linling.
Zi Linling didn't care. She looked at Lu Zuichang and said, "I've waited for you for a day and a night, and you still have twenty-three medicinal ingredients left to refine! Your speed is so slow it insults even a turtle!"
Fortunately, after recovering his composure, Lu Zuichang had released his six senses but still blocked his hearing. Otherwise, he might have burned the herbs he was refining to ashes.
Zi Linling shook her head and continued, "Never mind! Since you want to be like a turtle, I won't wait for you anymore!"
"..."
The onlookers didn't know what to say.
Zi Linling stretched lazily and said, "Little donkey, I'm going to get serious!"
With that, a wisp of flame shot from her fingertip, and she began to preheat the furnace.
At the same time, a pile of medicinal ingredients appeared beside her, identical to those Lu Zuichang had.
"She's going to refine the Purple Sunflower Breaking Calamity Pill too?"
Nian Youyu and Feng Mo were shocked.
They knew that even they couldn't refine this quasi-Emperor grade pill.
Yet now, on the arena, both Lu Zuichang and Zi Linling were going to refine it!
"Can she refine it?" Nian Youyu transmitted to Feng Mo.
Feng Mo looked at Lu Bingcheng, then at Lu Zuichang, and finally his gaze fell on Zi Linling, saying, "Maybe!"
Lu Bingchang looked at the medicinal ingredients in Zi Linling's hand and was greatly surprised.
He had clearly instructed them to empty the treasury of high-quality medicinal ingredients, so how could Zi Linling still have these ingredients?
However, a mocking smile soon appeared on his lips.
She dreams of refining the Purple Sunflower Breaking Calamity Pill!
To everyone's astonishment, Zi Linling grabbed a handful of medicinal ingredients and threw them into the Nine Extremes Qiankun Cauldron.
"What a waste!"
"A desecration of heavenly resources!"
"What a pity for those medicinal ingredients!"
Among the onlookers, some alchemists reprimanded with great grief.
As for the others, even though they didn't understand alchemy, they were even less optimistic about Zi Linling.
Let alone anything else, Lu Zuichang spent nearly two quarters of an hour preheating the furnace, while Zi Linling only took two breaths. The difference in skill was obvious!
Furthermore, when refining medicinal ingredients, which alchemist didn't extract them one by one?
But Zi Linling, with a handful at a time, and carelessly at that, even grabbing herbs with conflicting properties.
How could they know that Zi Linling's soul force was incredibly powerful, allowing her to refine more than a dozen herbs simultaneously?
Coupled with the Nine Extremes Qiankun Cauldron and the Phoenix True Fire of Huang Yi as cheat devices, there was no way the situation they feared would occur. Su Dan Novel Network.
Zi Linling's speed in refining medicinal ingredients was extremely fast, almost a handful every two or three breaths.
This speed made Nian Youyu and Feng Mo gasp in admiration.
The eyes of the onlookers seemed to have fallen out.
They watched with their own eyes as Zi Linling put the extracted medicinal powder into a prepared porcelain bottle.
Moreover, judging by the color of the powder, it was not a failed product.
Zi Linling finished refining all the medicinal ingredients that Lu Zuichang had spent a day and a night on in less than a quarter of an hour.
The crowd looked at the calm and relaxed Zi Linling, and then at the exhausted Lu Zuichang. They immediately understood why Zi Linling had called Lu Zuichang a turtle just now.