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Inside Jishetang.

Jiang Feng stood in the center of the lobby, his gaze sweeping over the empty counter before finally landing on Lin Youwei.

He frowned slightly and asked in a deep voice, "Sister Youwei, what's going on? Why has the shop's business become so bad?"

Lin Youwei's expression froze.

She opened her mouth, as if to say something, but then stopped, her fingers unconsciously twisting together.

During this period, Jishetang was subjected to fierce suppression by the Qinglong Society.

Upstream medicinal herb suppliers have cut off supplies one after another, and the materials for refining the Golden Foundation Pill are becoming increasingly scarce.

Even more ruthless, the Azure Dragon Society declared that anyone who dared to buy Jishetang's pills would be going against the Azure Dragon Society.

Linchuan City is only so big, who would dare to gamble with their life and fortune?

But the people got scared and ran away, so the signboard was smashed.

In just half a month, Jishetang's revenue plummeted to its lowest point since its opening.

She didn't tell Jiang Feng any of these things.

Jiang Feng was attending an exchange meeting.

This matter is more important to him.

So Lin Youwei gritted her teeth and endured it all.

But now, meeting Jiang Feng's gaze, the words that had been suppressed in her heart could no longer be hidden.

She whispered and told the whole story.

"I didn't mean to hide it from you, it's just that this exchange is too important for you, and I didn't want to distract you..."

Jiang Feng's face gradually darkened.

Damn the Azure Dragon Society!

It seems the lesson we taught them before didn't really hurt them!

Just then, footsteps sounded on the stairs.

Two men dressed in pharmacist robes came down from upstairs one after the other, carrying suitcases, seemingly about to leave.

Lin Youwei's expression changed, and she quickly stepped forward to stop the two: "Master Qin, Master Meng, what are you doing...?"

The older one is Qin Bochuan, a highly respected senior pharmacist in the industry.

His improved formula for "Huichun San" has been registered with the National Pharmacist Association.

Another one, Meng Huaiyuan, was younger, but came from a family of pharmacists and possessed unparalleled mastery of fire control techniques.

These two were brought into Jishetang by Lin Youwei at a high price.

The refining of the Golden Foundation Building Powder now rests entirely in the hands of these two.

With their departure, no one was able to refine the Golden Foundation Building Powder anymore, and Jishetang was essentially crippled.

"Miss Lin, I'm so sorry."

Qin Bochuan stopped, slowly shook his head, and sighed, "It's not that we want to leave, but the Azure Dragon Society... has already sent a death notice to my family."

His voice trembled slightly: "My wife was followed for three blocks when she picked up the kids from school yesterday."

"If I stay any longer, they will kill my whole family."

"Ms. Lin, the salary you're offering is high, but no matter how good the money is, you have to be alive to spend it."

Lin Youwei's lips moved, but she couldn't utter a single word to persuade him to stay.

She couldn't bring herself to gamble with the lives of someone's entire family to persuade them to stay.

"And what about you?"

She looked at Meng Huaiyuan, "Master Meng, are you leaving too?"

Meng Huaiyuan's eyes darted around, and he stammered, "I... Miss Lin, to be honest, the Azure Dragon Society offered me double the salary, and I'm thinking of going there to give it a try."

Lin Youwei's expression changed drastically, and her voice suddenly rose: "You want to aid and abet evil?! Go work for the Azure Dragon Society?!"

"No!"

Meng Huaiyuan quickly shook his head and explained, "I...I don't plan to stay there for long. After I finish this busy period, I plan to leave Linchuan City...to avoid the limelight."

He himself didn't believe those words.

Lin Youwei tried to persuade them for a long time, using both gentle and harsh words, but the two were determined to leave and eventually carried their suitcases out of the Jishetang gate.

Jiang Feng stood still the whole time, without saying a word.

No matter how much you try to persuade someone who wants to leave, you can't keep them.

However, his expression was even more unpleasant than before.

"Where are Lu Zhantian and Bai Yuhe?"

He asked the question.

"Junior Brother Yuhe has been refining pills all this time."

Lin Youwei quickly replied, "Ever since you brought back those two pill formulas last time, he has been refining them day and night, eating and sleeping in the backyard."

"Fortunately, we prepared a batch of materials in advance, which is enough for now."

"As for Zhan Tian, ​​he went to the abyss."

"The raw materials in the shop are monopolized by the Azure Dragon Society. He took a list of materials to the Abyss Black Mist and has been gone for almost three or four days."

Jiang Feng clenched his fist.

With the medicinal herbs running out, Lu Zhantian ventured into the abyss to gather more.

The white crane had been refining elixirs.

My good brothers are all working hard.

But he himself knew nothing about it!

Without saying a word, he turned and walked towards the backyard.

The alchemy room in the backyard was renovated later; a transparent glass panel was installed on the side facing the corridor, so that one could see clearly inside from the outside.

Jiang Feng walked up to the glass and suddenly stopped in his tracks.

Inside the alchemy room.

Bai Yuhe, dressed in an alchemist's robe, sat cross-legged in front of a seventh-grade Wind and Flame Pill Furnace.

The fire blazed fiercely beneath the stove, and the indoor temperature was frighteningly high.

His fair face was flushed red from the heat, and sweat dripped down his chin.

But his gaze remained fixed on the alchemy furnace, unwavering and resolute.

Jiang Feng stood outside the glass, feeling as if something had clenched his heart.

That silly boy...

Why are you working so hard?!

……

Inside the alchemy room, Bai Yuhe was completely unaware of everything happening around him.

Dozens of medicinal materials were neatly arranged on the medicine cabinet next to him.

All the ingredients for the fourth-grade elixir, the Limit-Breaking Pill.

The Limit-Breaking Pill helps people break through limits and reach new heights.

The refining of this elixir involves three steps, each more dangerous than the last.

Step 1: Purification and Refining.

Bai Yuhe slightly closed his eyes, and strands of spiritual energy, like silkworm threads, probed into the alchemy furnace, reflecting the situation inside the furnace in his sea of ​​consciousness in great detail.

He raised his hand and summoned a purple-veined spirit herb into the furnace. The spirit fire roared and instantly transformed the herb into a ball of emerald liquid.

Then came the second plant, the third plant...

One after another, the medicinal herbs were put into the furnace, and the medicinal liquid inside surged and the various medicinal powers converged like rivers.

Purification aims to enhance the purity of the medicinal properties and remove impurities.

Any remaining impurity will be magnified in the next two steps, eventually leading to an explosion.

This is the most painstaking and time-consuming process.

Bai Yuhe's spiritual power was divided into dozens of fine threads, each thread wrapping a ball of medicinal liquid. He carefully ground and slowly filtered it, forcing out the impurities one by one.

He was drenched in sweat, but remained completely still.

Half an hour later, all the dozens of clumps of medicinal liquid in the furnace were clear as jade, without any impurities.

Step one, done.

Without taking a breath, Bai Yuhe changed his hand seals, and the spiritual fire under the furnace suddenly subsided, changing from a powerful fire to a gentle fire.

The second step is [Refining].

Under the guidance of his mental power, dozens of clumps of liquid medicine slowly converged, merging together and condensing into three fist-sized clumps of liquid medicine.

The medicinal liquid spun around, solidifying a little more with each rotation and shrinking in volume.

This is the process of pressing the immense medicinal power inch by inch into the pill blank.

The difficulty in condensing lies in controlling the heat.

If the heat is too high, the medicine will burn and dry; if the heat is too low, the medicinal effect will dissipate.