In the end, Xiao Baidao lightly admonished Feng Xi with a few words. The general meaning was, although your intentions are good, don't refine pills anymore in the future.
After he left, Jun Wen said sourly, "Little Junior Sister, Master is way too biased!"
Feng Xi burst out laughing, "Master is strict with you because he loves you deeply and places high expectations on you.
I'm different, Master thinks I'm a small useless trash, so of course he pampers me."
Jun Wen instantly straightened up!
So I really am Master's most treasured disciple!
Just as he was feeling smug, he heard Feng Xi say, "Fifth Senior Brother, come with me to the back mountain! I'll refine pills there, then I shouldn't disturb anyone."
Jun Wen: "...Little Junior Sister, let's forget it!"
Other people needs money to refine pills, little junior sister needs lives refine pills!
Unfortunately, he couldn't persuade her and still followed her to the back mountain.
This time, Feng Xi had learned her lesson. Before refining pills, she released the little black ball.
"If black smoke comes out later, you can absorb it all for me!"
Little black ball: "..."
Are you even fucking speaking like a human?!
I, a dignified Spirit of Chaos have to do this kind of work?
It didn't want to, but… it couldn't resist and had no choice but to comply.
Feng Xi refined dozens of furnaces in a row, all ended in failures.
The little black ball had turned into a little smoke ball!
Whenever it spoke, smoke puffed out.
Even Jun Wen felt a bit sorry for the little black ball.
But what puzzled him more was how could Little Junior Sister's spiritual qi be so abundant? Even Elder Ji couldn't refine so many furnaces in one go!
Then he thought again, maybe Little Junior Sister's refining method was wrong, so the spiritual qi consumption was low.
Feng Xi was frustrated. Every step was correct, so why did it still fail? Where exactly was the problem?
The little black ball finally had enough, "The problem is that you don't have alchemy talent! Stop torturing yourself!
Once my cultivation recovers, you can sell the spiritual plants from the secret realm, you won't worry about money at all."
Feng Xi didn't want to give up so easily. Relying on mountains makes them collapse; relying on people makes them leave. Only oneself is truly reliable.
After thinking it over, she finally realized what the problem was.
She had water, fire, and wood spiritual roots. She was already unsuitable to be an alchemist, let alone the fact that the three spiritual roots in her dantian didn't get along.
When she mobilized the fire spiritual root to refine pills, the wood and water spiritual roots not only didn't help, they actively caused trouble. It would be strange if the pill could be refined.
Feng Xi asked the little black ball, "If I didn't have a dantian anymore, do you have demonic cultivation techniques suitable for me?"
"Yes! Of course I do! Several kinds! All of them are stronger than your trash technique!"
Feng Xi nodded, "Fifth Senior Brother, lend me a dagger. I'm going to cut myself open and remove my dantian to use as a footstool!"
Jun Wen: "..."
But when he saw Feng Xi signal him with her eyes, he trembled and handed over a dagger.
Feng Xi gestured at her dantian area, then told Jun Wen to turn away. She lifted her clothes and cut down. Instantly, blood dyed her abdomen red.
The little black ball was completely terrified!
It thought Feng Xi was just scaring the three damned things in her dantian, but she actually did it for real!
The three spiritual roots were also terrified, "kneeling" inside the dantian.
Feng Xi faintly sensed their begging and sneered, "This is your last chance. If you dare cause trouble again, I won't mind discarding this dantian entirely!"
The three spiritual roots desperately "nodded."
Only then did Feng Xi sprinkle hemostatic powder on the wound and swallow a Hemostasis Pill.
If you're acting, you have to fully commit to the bit. If you can't even fool yourself, how can you fool others?!
The little black ball shrank its nearly nonexistent neck. Too scary!
Scared the ball to death!
When this damn brat went crazy, she was even more like a demon than the demons from the Demon Realm.
In the future, it'd better behave well. If she was pushed too far, there's nothing she wouldn't dare do.
After dealing with the wound, Feng Xi let Jun Wen turn around.
Seeing the blood on the dagger, Jun Wen's face turned pale.
"Little Junior Sister, you, you…"
Feng Xi smiled, "Fifth Senior Brother, there are some things I can't tell you. But don't worry, I won't do anything stupid, and I won't do anything that harms you or Master."
Jun Wen suddenly thought that Little Junior Sister looked a little sad. For the first time, he felt like his mouth didn't belong to him, he actually had no idea what to say to comfort her.
In the end, he performed a… monkey climbing a tree.
Feng Xi was amused.
In her previous life, she was an orphan. Although her bank account later held several small fortunes, she had never truly felt love.
So she sponsored many impoverished students.
If she couldn't feel love herself, then she would let others feel it.
But since transmigrating into this book, both Xiao Baidao and Jun Wen had let her experience care and concern. Perhaps this was the greatest gain of her transmigration.
After finishing a rant in her heart, Feng Xi began refining pills again.
Jun Wen originally wanted to stop her, but seeing the little black ball frantically signaling him, he could only shut his mouth.
The little black ball thought, you second-rate fool!
The female demon's mood is bad right now. If you provoke her, she might take it out on me.
The humble little black ball now only had one wish, that Feng Xi would successfully refine a pill as soon as possible.
Perhaps its wish came true. This furnace produced no black smoke at all, and there's even a faint medicinal fragrance.
Feng Xi took a deep breath and lifted the lid of the alchemy furnace.
A strange medicinal scent rushed toward her.
Inside the furnace lay ten plump pills, each with a ring of golden patterns.
Feng Xi frowned, "Fifth Senior Brother, I think I still refined it incorrectly. The pills Elder Ji refined don't have these strange patterns."
Jun Wen's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets!
"L-Little Junior Sister, th-these, these are top-grade pills!"
Feng Xi had only listened to one lecture from Elder Ji and observed one lesson, so her alchemy knowledge was extremely shallow.
She only knew pill quality was divided into high, middle, and low grades. From Jun Wen's reaction, there were also top-grade pills?
The little black ball shot Jun Wen a glare.
"Look at you, so ignorant and uncultured!
My master is astonishingly talented and exceptionally clever, what's so strange about refining top-grade pills?!"
Jun Wen: "..."
Were you smoked stupid by all that black smoke?!
Otherwise, how did you suddenly become this sycophantic?
Two silent tears streamed down the little black ball's heart. I don't want to be like this either!
But the female demon is too terrifying!
If I don't say nice things, I'm really afraid she'll torment me someday!