"So, the elixir is ruined?"
Chu Lingwei chimed in.
"Not entirely, only two came out," Nangong said with some embarrassment. This time, he had added two ten-thousand-year-old spirit herbs to the elixir.
"That's not bad, two are still there." Hearing that there were two, Chu Lingwei felt it was acceptable.
"Aren't you angry?"
As Nangong Luo breathed a sigh of relief, he was also a little surprised. His junior sister was truly generous.
"Having a twenty percent chance isn't that bad." When she was in the Xuan Xin Sect, some disciples who were just starting to refine elixirs couldn't even guarantee a twenty percent success rate.
"If the mountain protection formation hadn't suddenly activated, I could have definitely produced six."
Nangong Luo felt he was quite unlucky. If he had known, he wouldn't have been in such a hurry to refine the elixir.
Chu Lingwei nodded, then suddenly felt something was amiss. Her expression turned cold, and she glared at her second senior brother.
"Second Senior Brother, you're not tricking me, are you? You took the spirit herbs back last night, and you could refine an elixir in less than one night?"
For high-grade elixirs like this, it took at least ten days, and at most several months. For the spirit herbs her second senior brother had just taken back to yield an elixir so quickly.
Nangong Luo smiled somewhat guiltily, "Of course, I didn't start refining as soon as I got the spirit herbs. I actually started a while ago, I just added two spirit herbs."
Chu Lingwei: "..."
There was even a saying about adding spirit herbs midway through refining. Chu Lingwei looked at her second senior brother seriously. If he wasn't lying to her, then he was truly a genius alchemist. At least, she had never seen an alchemist who added spirit herbs halfway through and still managed to succeed.
"Here, this is the Barrier Breaking Elixir we just refined." Nangong Luo took out a jade bottle and placed it in Chu Lingwei's hand. "Don't underestimate this small Barrier Breaking Elixir. If you consume it, within a month, you will be immune to any poisonous miasma in the world."
"Thank you, Second Senior Brother."
Chu Lingwei took the jade bottle and opened the lid. A rich spiritual energy gushed out. "This is actually an eighth-grade elixir."
"Of course," Nangong Luo's face showed a small measure of comfort. A common fourth-grade elixir, refined by him into an eighth-grade one, its effectiveness was unimaginable.
"Second Senior Brother, you are truly amazing."
Chu Lingwei couldn't help but sigh. Her second senior brother was indeed a genius alchemist.
Hearing Chu Lingwei's praise, Nangong Luo burst into laughter. These words were very comforting to him.
"Second Senior Brother, have you noticed that Mount Wuhui is unusually quiet?"
Chu Lingwei looked at the swirling immortal clouds of Mount Wuhui. It was the same as usual, yet also very different.
Nangong Luo sighed softly and nodded, "It's not good for us to know certain things. Junior Sister, you should go back to your cave dwelling and cultivate diligently."
Chu Lingwei watched Nangong Luo leave and returned to her cave dwelling, closing her eyes to cultivate.
One month later.
Chu Lingwei emerged from her cave dwelling again. Mount Wuhui was calm and peaceful; nothing had happened.
"Weiwei, are we going out?"
Feng Ming came before Chu Lingwei. Ever since the incident in the sea of flowers that day, Feng Ming had returned to her side and had not left her for a moment.
"We've been back for so long and haven't been out of Mount Wuhui. Let's go see Xie Lian."
Chu Lingwei didn't know what measures the Cultivation Academy would take due to the lost treasure.
"Didn't Senior Brother say we're not allowed to leave for now?" Feng Ming stood on Chu Lingwei's shoulder, cautiously looking outside. It was as quiet as ever.
"So much time has passed, whatever was going to happen has already happened. Besides, we're not leaving the Xiu Fa Academy."
The voice of the Phantom Cat came, speaking indignantly.
"You..." Feng Ming clenched his small paws and raised a fist at the Phantom Cat.
"Alright, you two, stop arguing." Chu Lingwei couldn't help but frown slightly. The Phantom Cat always seemed to pick on Feng Ming for some reason.
"Weiwei, let's have Feng Ming cultivate in the cave dwelling." The Phantom Cat snorted, completely ignoring Feng Ming.
"No, no, I want to follow Weiwei." Feng Ming panicked, tightly hugging Chu Lingwei's neck. "Maomao, you're too mean."
Chu Lingwei frowned and used a surge of spiritual energy to seal the two of them in the courtyard. "You two argue here slowly."
With that said, she directly stepped onto her flying sword and left.
Arriving at the foot of Tian Fu Peak, Chu Lingwei sent a communication talisman to Xie Lian and then began to stroll around.
She was currently at the foot of Tian Fu Peak, and it was very lively. Everywhere, disciples from Fu Peak had set up small stalls, selling mostly talismans they had made.
Many disciples from other divisions who needed talismans would purchase them here. It had become a small market.
"Weiwei, you're finally back."
Xie Lian, having received Chu Lingwei's communication talisman, rushed over immediately. Seeing Chu Lingwei, he was extremely excited. "You..."
Chu Lingwei had gone to the Spiritual Domain, and their list was known to the world. Xie Lian already knew her identity.
"Yes, I'm back."
"Your cultivation?" Xie Lian looked at Chu Lingwei as she walked to a secluded spot, asking with concern. All disciples who entered the Spiritual Domain had their cultivation greatly reduced, and it was said that their cultivation recovered much slower than others.
"My cultivation hasn't dropped much." Chu Lingwei was Bei Chen Feng's disciple, and she received treatment immediately.
Xie Lian breathed a sigh of relief. "That's good. I never expected such a thing to happen in the Spiritual Domain."
Chu Lingwei smiled. The Spiritual Domain's self-destruction, the damage to the cultivation of all disciples who entered it, was known throughout the entire Xuan Tian Continent.
"Xie Lian, has anything happened in the academy recently?" It was very lively at the foot of Tian Fu Peak just now, not like something major had occurred.
"Nothing has happened in the academy, but something happened in Xiu Ling City." Xie Lian led Chu Lingwei towards the plaza of their Xiu Ling Academy.
The plaza of the Xiu Ling Academy had all the facilities for their food, clothing, housing, and transportation, and it was also a place for Xiu Ling Academy disciples to rest and relax.
"What happened in Xiu Ling City?"
"Half of Xiu Ling City was destroyed, and it's said that the sea of flowers was also directly destroyed." Xie Lian looked regretful. Currently, all disciples were not allowed to go out.
It seemed that the fight that day had indeed affected Xiu Ling City.
"I heard many people died." When great powers fight, it's only the minor disciples who suffer. They die for nothing.
"Oh, right." Xie Lian suddenly remembered something and grabbed Chu Lingwei's shoulder. "Ye Bingcheng has been out on a mission since then. It's said he died."
Ye Bingcheng was formerly a disciple of the Xuan Xin Sect, close to Chu Xi Yin, and had tried to curry favor with her by betraying her. Now, he was dead.
Chu Lingwei was silent. The death of cultivators in the Xiu Ling Continent was a common occurrence.
Chu Lingwei and Xie Lian spent the entire day strolling around the Xiu Ling Academy's plaza. Everything in the Xiu Ling Academy was normal, with no anomalies.
It seemed that no one else knew about the precious treasure lost by the Xiu Ling Academy.
Xie Lian and the others didn't even know that the mountain protection formation of the Xiu Ling Academy had been activated.
Returning to her cave dwelling, Chu Lingwei warned the two of them not to quarrel and to continue cultivating. Cautiously, she had not checked her spatial dimension.