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The attendant with deep blue eyes retreated a few steps, he glanced at Ouyang Yuqing beside him, then glanced at the surrounding trees and caressed the Storage Ring s, following that, he took out the igniting talismans one by one.

However, the volume of the detonator was extremely small. It was only a tenth of the size of an ordinary detonator and was the size of a thumb.

The attendant with deep blue eyes immediately held the talisman tightly in his hand, and then poured some of his own magic power into it. He threw it on the ground, but when it fell on the ground, the talisman had turned transparent, and if one didn't look carefully, they wouldn't even notice it.

At the same time, a cool breeze blew past. In the next moment, the translucent detonating talismans were blown up, causing them to scatter around the trees.

After doing that, the attendant stood there quietly with his hands behind his back. He thought that what he had done was very obscure and no one had noticed him. Unexpectedly, Xu Ye and the beautiful lady on the tree had already seen through his every move.

At this time, the beautiful woman asked Xu Ye who was beside her, "It seems that the little girl from Ouyang Family also had her moments of confusion, allowing a spy to lurk beside her without her noticing anything."

Xu Ye laughed, because he had already drank a lot of alcohol, causing his face to turn red, he wiped the corner of his mouth with one hand, then said: "How do you know that the girl from Ouyang Family doesn't know that there's a spy around her?"

The seductive woman shrugged and said, "I don't care if she knows or not. It has nothing to do with me."

Xu Ye chuckled a few more times and stopped talking. However, his gaze was locked onto Shi Ling who was on the stage.

As time passed, Ouyang Yuqing and Shi Ling's cauldron had already extracted the medicinal liquid from the herbs. After that, the two of them carefully controlled the flames to fuse the extracted medicinal liquid.

The liquid had initially been about the size of an apple, but as the temperature of the flame increased, its volume began to be compressed. Soon after, it became smaller and smaller, until it was the size of an egg.

When it was the size of an apple, it was still liquid, but when it was compressed to the size of an egg, it began to turn into an oily shape.

Shi Ling and Ouyang Yuqing were both veterans in the alchemy world, and their control over fire was something that went without saying. However, Shi Ling seemed to be one step ahead of them.

Soon, the amount of medicinal liquid in Shi Ling's pill furnace shrunk to the size of a walnut, and its shape changed from an oily substance to a paste. It looked like a meteorite, and its surface was full of potholes.

At this stage, the pill could already be considered as an elementary one, and could even be called a "nascent core".

However, there was still a long way to go before the finished product could be refined. That was because there was only one step left, "Purification"!

As he controlled the temperature of the fire, he channeled the spiritual energy from the world into the pills, causing the size of the pills to decrease again. However, it would be very difficult to compress the pills at this stage, so much so that this last step was ten times more difficult than all the previous steps combined.

Shi Ling was not flustered, but he was more focused. On the other side, Ouyang Yuqing, like Shi Ling, had reached the final step of purification and was only able to channel the Qi from the outside into her prototype core.

In a short moment, the two sides had actually created two small tornadoes, causing the spirit energy within a hundred meter radius around them to rapidly dry up.

However, the effects of the compression of the medicinal pills in their pill furnaces were very obvious. On Shi Ling's side, his initial pill had already been compressed to the size of a thumb and a medicinal fragrance began to seep out. At the same time, a layer of purple began to slowly wrap around it.

As long as that layer of violet light completely enveloped the infant core, the pill would be officially announced as complete.

At this time, a drop of sweat started to roll down Shi Ling's forehead. He muttered: "Floral Pupil, open!"

Following that, during the last step of refining pills, Shi Ling's control over the fire also needed to be controlled more and more meticulously. As a result, with the help of the Floral Pupil's powerful observation skills, they were able to clearly see the changes between the fire and the pill, thus ensuring the success rate of the pill.

At the same time, Ouyang Yuqing's pill furnace began to emit a medicinal fragrance. The medicinal fragrance of the two of them was very similar, and without the presence of a special alchemist, it was impossible to determine which of the two pills was of a higher grade.

As the medicinal fragrance spread outwards, the roars of wild beasts could be heard from the surrounding forests. The roars were filled with excitement, as if a hungry wolf that had been starved for several days had smelled fragrant food.

Soon after, the people protecting Shi Ling and Ouyang Yuqing felt the ground start to tremble slightly. Ji Wutian's ears twitched and he looked around coldly, cursing silently, "Damn it, something is coming this way!"

At this moment, Qian Hee said with a frown, "It should be the medicinal fragrance refined by the two of them that lured that group of beasts here."

Ji Wutian took out his heavy sword and said to Qian Hee, "You guys continue watching here. I'll go get rid of those animals first, then I'll come back."

Saying that, he wanted to rush out, but Qian Hee suddenly said: "No need to go through so much trouble."

Ji Wutian asked with a puzzled expression: "Do you have a good idea?"

Qian Hee did not make a sound, and only lightly took out a jade box from his Storage Ring. He immediately channeled his mana into the jade box, and immediately, the jade box began to shine with a dazzling light.

When Qian Hee saw that the light was almost gone, he directly threw it into the sky. The jade box floated in the air, and under Qian Hee's perception, it floated to the center of the field. Then, an invisible suction force came from the jade box and started to gather the water in the air.

Very soon, when the absorption of the water was almost done, it suddenly bent down, as if wanting to give up all the water it had absorbed. However, it did not pour down as expected, on the contrary, all the water that had been absorbed by the jade box turned into a wall of water. From afar, it looked like a huge protective barrier that protected everyone inside.

Ji Wutian looked at the jade box and could not help but chuckle. He immediately sheathed his sword and said, "It seems that your Forging Hall still has a lot of treasures."

Qian Hee was slightly pleased as he said: "This Water Obsidian Box was originally made by my father using a dead water Demonic Beast, Dragon Flame Shark's Inner Core, and was jointly refined by more than twenty Forging Masters in the Forging Hall at that time. Although it did not have a very strong attack power in itself, it could control the water within ten miles of its own body to form a huge protective barrier, and no one under the Life Soul Stage can penetrate it. The only drawback is that it will only last for a short period of time. Furthermore, each time it is used up, it needs up to ten days to cool down before it can be used again. "

Ji Wutian couldn't help but silently nod his head when he heard this. He looked up at the Water Obsidian Box floating in midair and said, "I hope it can last until Shi Ling and the others finish refining the pill."

However, Qian Hee smiled confidently: "Then don't worry, as long as there's water around here, this protective shield will not disappear. And this patch of water in the Demonic Beast forest will definitely be enough to last until they finish concocting pills."

At the same time, the beasts in the distance had already charged over. It seemed that it was because the pills Shi Ling and the others had refined were too strong, so much so that these Demonic Beast were frantically trying to break through the Water Escape Barrier.

However, just as Qian Hee had said, as a third grade enchanted tool, even if a strong expert at the peak of Bone Melting Stage were to come, they would still be unable to break through the defense of the Water Obsidian Box, let alone these few small Demonic Beast.

When Ji Wutian saw that the Demonic Beast were unable to break through the water escape defense, he did not care about them anymore.

As Shi Ling's pill refinement neared the end, the medicinal fragrance in the furnace became increasingly stronger. It was gradually spreading to over ten miles away.

However, this would cause the number of Demonic Beast that surrounded them to increase.

At the same time, on Ouyang Yuqing's side, Ouyang Yuqing's pills were about to be taken care of. However, the blue-eyed attendant beside her suddenly smiled evilly. He looked at the water escape barrier and the ferocious beasts outside and could not help but laugh even more happily.

At this moment, the other servant by his side patted his shoulder and said: "What are you laughing at?"

The blue-eyed attendant shook his head and said, "Nothing."

The other person looked on with a baffled expression.

Immediately, a hand was placed on the Storage Ring, and following that, he took out a silver needle. However, with the support of his Fa Li, the silver needle started to soften, turning into a snake-like object, and burrowed into the ground.

Then, at this moment, the pellet on Shi Ling's side turned completely purple, which also meant that the pellet had been successfully refined.

With one hand, Shi Ling slammed the Time Divine Furnace onto the ground and shouted: "Dancheng, out!"

After she finished speaking, a purple pill slowly floated out from the pill furnace. On the other side, Ouyang Yuqing also slammed her palm on the pill furnace as she muttered: "Rise!"

With that, a finished pill flew out from her furnace.

For a moment, the two were speechless as they had both refined the pill at the same time. Now, they needed to determine who would be the final winner based on the quality of the pills they had concocted.

However, at that moment, the blue-eyed attendant in the distance suddenly whispered, "Explode!"

With that, the surrounding trees suddenly exploded. The violent explosion instantly created a cloud of dust.

Suddenly, everyone present, including Shi Ling and Ouyang Yuqing, were dumbfounded. They didn't know what was happening except for Qian Hee who shouted, "Everyone be careful!"

When these words were spoken, Shi Ling, Ji Wutian, and Qiu Rann all became vigilant. Ouyang Yuqing was even more panicked as she looked around, but because the dust had blocked her vision, she had no idea what was happening!

At this moment, the attendant with blue eyes suddenly rushed towards Qiu Rann. However, as he ran, his body started to become illusory, as if he was about to disappear at any time.

Very quickly, he had already rushed forward. Just as he was about to grab Qiu Rann, a figure suddenly appeared in front of him.

Shi Ling's blue eyes that had three petals stared coldly at him at this moment, the Black Wood Sword in his hands had already hacked towards him.

Seeing that, the attendant with deep blue eyes was first alarmed, but he did not stop moving. At this moment, he actually directly rushed towards Shi Ling's Black Wood Sword.

In the next moment, the other party directly rushed in front of Qiu Rann. Qiu Rann did not possess a powerful eyesight like Shi Ling, who possessed a Floral Pupil like Shi Ling, hence, he was deeply entrapped in this smoky environment, causing him to directly become blind. However, as a cultivator, his other senses were still very keen.

When Qiu Rann heard that something was approaching him, he instinctively retreated. At the same time, he also sent a palm towards the other party.

However, this time, the opponent did not feign invisibility. Instead, he threw a palm attack towards Qiu Rann.

With a light bang, Qiu Rann was directly struck, then his body flew back. At the same time, the Soul Accumulating Stone in Qiu Rann's hand was also caught by the person who ambushed him.

Although this person didn't dare to fight face to face with Shi Ling, he was confident that he could beat Qiu Rann, who was such a small fry.

Once the Soul Accumulating Stone was in his possession, he did not linger any longer. He immediately flipped a few times in the air, and actually wanted to escape from the water escape barrier.

At the same time, Shi Ling also chased after the other party. From the moment the other party attacked, Shi Ling could already tell that his strength should also be at the peak of the Blood Coagulation, and was almost at the level of half a step into the Bone Melting Stage.

As a result, while Shi Ling chased after the other party, he did not let down his guard and held the Black Wood Sword tightly in his hands.

However, what made Shi Ling even more stupefied was that when he was forced into a corner, he thought that he had nowhere to run. But who would have thought that the other party would actually once again turn illusory and directly pass through the water escape barrier.

When Shi Ling rushed to where he was previously, he was blocked by the water escape barrier. Shi Ling could only watch as that bastard ran further and further away.

At this moment, Qian Hee walked over and said to Shi Ling, "He won't be able to leave!"

As he said that, he raised his hand. There was a small tray in his hand, and it was facing the direction that the person had escaped to.