Chapter 71

Meixue was very satisfied with this alchemy session. He could even say without any hesitation that this was the best time he had ever refined the Spirit Qi Soup.

The freshly refined Spirit Qi Soup appeared as a translucent milky white, almost allowing one to see through to the bottom of the soup. The impurities had automatically settled into the layered sections of the cauldron, leaving no residue behind.

Taking a whiff, the aroma that entered his nostrils was soothing to both body and mind, along with the unique fragrance of the Spirit Qi Soup.

Looking at it, the clear and impurity-free soup gave a flawless impression, making one's fingers itch to taste it.

Tasting it, the slightly sweet and refreshing flavor was the exquisite taste that only the best Spirit Qi Soup could possess.

The three elements that determined the quality and price of the Spirit Qi Soup—color, aroma, and taste—were all present, and even surpassed what Meixue had imagined.

Indeed, this was a perfect Spirit Qi Soup, a rare treasure priced over ten times that of ordinary Spirit Qi Soup. It was the first time in his life that Meixue had refined a perfect Spirit Qi Soup.

"Good." Meixue sprinkled some white powder, and the Spirit Qi Soup in the cauldron immediately began to contract and condense, eventually turning into a transparent gel block.

This was the final product of the Spirit Qi Soup. The last powder added was "Ming Powder," which could lock the taste and quality of the Spirit Qi Soup in its optimal state and preserve it in a gel form for easy sale.

After buying these gel-like blocks of Spirit Qi Soup, one only needed to heat them slightly to have a finished product. This was a must-have in the homes of people with some means, an essential medicinal dish for entertaining guests.

And this aroma that filled the air, enticing the appetite, was a characteristic unique to the best Spirit Qi Soup.

After refining the perfect Spirit Qi Soup, Meixue's mood was exceptionally good. The quality of the Double-Winged Square Cauldron was much higher than he had imagined; otherwise, he would never have been able to refine such a perfect Spirit Qi Soup.

From this, he deduced that although Xiaoliu's alchemy skills were a bit lacking, she should still be able to refine a decent Spirit Qi Soup.

"Xiaoliu, how's it going on your side?" Meixue put away the Spirit Qi Soup he had refined and began to pay attention to Xiaoliu's results.

"Done!" Xiaoliu puffed out her small chest, her face full of pride.

"Good, that's good." Meixue, curious, walked over to Xiaoliu's cauldron and saw the Spirit Qi Soup she had refined.

The soup was a bright red, like blood, emitting a sweet aroma that made one feel as if they were about to ascend to immortality. It must be of top-notch quality, befitting the output of the Double-Winged Square Cauldron...

Wait! Bright red like blood? Meixue rubbed his eyes and found that the Spirit Qi Soup in the cauldron was indeed this bright red color, as clear and transparent as a blood-red gemstone.

Was there a Spirit Qi Soup with this color? Meixue searched through all the recipes he knew. They were either clear or white, and he had never heard of a red Spirit Qi Soup, especially one with this bright, blood-red, transparent hue.

"Xiaoliu, what secret recipe did you use?" Meixue could only guess.

"No, the same herbs as you, Meixue?" Xiaoliu blinked her big eyes, looking innocent.

The same herbs? Meixue looked at the herbs he and Xiaoliu had sorted, and indeed, he saw no other herbs.

But the herbs he had collected in the wild were all ordinary herbs with mild properties, good for strengthening the body. What kind of alchemy technique could turn these ordinary herbs into a Spirit Qi Soup that looked so extraordinary?

"The taste is good." Seeing Meixue's doubtful expression, Xiaoliu took a spoon and tasted her Spirit Qi Soup, looking satisfied.

Meixue breathed a slight sigh of relief; at least it wasn't a completely undrinkable failure.

Then, he also took a small spoonful, preparing to taste this strange Spirit Qi Soup he had never seen before.

Just as Meixue was about to drink the spoonful of Spirit Qi Soup under Xiaoliu's happy gaze, he suddenly paused and looked puzzled.

It was the intuition of an alchemist. He instinctively sensed that something was wrong.

Then, he carefully put down the spoon and took out a仙石 (immortal stone) that every alchemist must have.

This was an immortal stone used to check the properties of medicines. Meixue felt it was necessary to test the components of this Spirit Qi Soup.

A drop of the bright red Spirit Qi Soup fell onto the transparent immortal stone, and in an instant, the entire stone changed color, turning from a translucent crystal to a shocking bright red, the same color as the Spirit Qi Soup.

Meixue's mouth opened wide, and he was speechless for a long time.

The immortal stone he used was certainly not a high-quality one, only capable of testing some basic medicinal properties. However, Meixue knew under what circumstances the stone would turn blood red.

That was when the toxicity of the tested spirit medicine exceeded the stone's upper limit, causing the stone to display a red warning, indicating that the danger level of the spirit medicine was beyond its testing range.

This was just a basic, low-level immortal stone, but it could test toxicity up to a thousand human doses.

In other words, the tiny drop of Spirit Qi Soup Xiaoliu had made contained enough toxins to easily kill a thousand people (definitely more), and it would cause them to bleed from all seven orifices and die a gruesome death.

Then, Meixue looked at the small spoonful of bright red Spirit Qi Soup he had almost drunk and at the entire cauldron of soup in the Double-Winged Square Cauldron, and cold sweat trickled down his back.

He finally realized his mistake, a huge mistake.

The alchemy skills of a celestial maiden like Xiaoliu were far beyond what a half-trained, low-level alchemist like him could judge. He couldn't even imagine a method that could refine ordinary Spirit Qi Soup into such a heaven-shaking, earth-shaking level.

The perfect Spirit Qi Soup he had refined was completely insignificant compared to the Spirit Qi Soup Xiaoliu had refined. They were not in the same league.

Just a moment ago, he thought Xiaoliu was not only unskilled in alchemy but also hopelessly wrong in the basics. Without the suspected Shen Nong Cauldron, he believed Xiaoliu would never be able to refine a single Seven-Transforming Fish-Dragon Grass in her lifetime.

But now he knew he was completely wrong. The alchemy talent Xiaoliu possessed was far beyond what a mere Seven-Transforming Fish-Dragon Grass could demonstrate.

Without mentioning anything else, this cauldron of mysterious Spirit Qi Soup far surpassed the realm of the Seven-Transforming Fish-Dragon Grass, already possessing the shadow of a divine medicine.

This cauldron of mysterious Spirit Qi Soup was worth at least a hundred or a thousand times more than his perfect Spirit Qi Soup. One cauldron could easily kill a million people. This god-like alchemy skill was probably the most miraculous talent he had ever seen in his life.

"You are truly remarkable." Meixue had to admit that there were geniuses in this world, and they were the kind of geniuses whose talent surpassed all ordinary people from birth.

In front of him was a genius girl with unparalleled talent in refining poisonous medicines.