Female lead: No, it's me again??

The plan of the day is in the morning.

From Chen Shi (7-9 AM) to Wei Shi (1-3 PM), one should study alchemical texts and pharmacology to broaden one's knowledge.

From Shen Shi (3-5 PM) to Hai Shi (9-11 PM), strengthen your physical body and enhance your combat experience.

From midnight to dawn, practice meditation.

Cultivators don't actually need to sleep; they can remain refreshed after a whole day of cultivation. So she now uses her sleep time for cultivation, making the most of every moment.

Their dwelling was a relatively secluded cave on the northern outskirts of the Thorn Demon Forest.

The cave was overgrown with weeds, and tall bushes and wild grasses completely blocked the cave. No one would notice it unless they used their spiritual sense to explore.

At three quarters past Chen hour, Feng Siyue stood ready, watching the bubbling alchemy furnace.

She silently prayed that the pot wouldn't explode.

The next second, "Bang!"

Thick white smoke billowed from the cave.

Xuan Li slammed the sketchbook onto the stone bed, accusingly saying, "Feng Siyue, this is the fourth batch you've fried today! Do you even want my nose to live?!"

She had endured all the strange smells—stinky, bitter, pungent, and so on—all morning, but now she simply couldn't take it anymore.

Feng Siyue was engrossed in thought, paying little attention to Xuan Li's complaints.

"Wait...wait a little longer..."

Xuan Li was so annoyed by her perfunctory attitude that he kicked the air a few times to express his dissatisfaction, then pinched his nose and continued reading the storybook.

where is the problem?

I followed the instructions in the book!

Feng Siyue lifted the lid of the alchemy furnace, used her spiritual power to scoop out a tiny bit, put it in her mouth, sipped it, then frowned and spat it out.

"They're all burnt. Could it be a problem with the heat?"

She closed her eyes and carefully recalled the process of refining it.

Extraction, smelting, fusion...

Feng Siyue analyzed every step in her mind, but in the end she still couldn't find the problem.

She followed the recipe exactly every step of the alchemy process. Unless there was something wrong with the recipe, it was impossible for her to fail!

However, the most basic Gu Yuan Dan (a type of elixir) shouldn't have a wrong formula, right?

After much thought, Feng Siyue could only conclude that it was a matter of timing and temperature.

Refining medicine with firewood is difficult to control; it cannot be controlled at will like the spiritual fire of a cultivator with a fire elemental root.

It seems we'll have to wait a little longer.

Feng Siyue dumped the waste residue from the failed elixir in a corner of the cave, then walked out of the cave and picked up the stone that had been placed outside.

You heard right, it's a stone.

She polished a stone into a smooth shape, wrapped it with a lot of cloth, and started running on the outskirts of the forest.

She traversed jungles, streams, and piles of rocks, constantly improving her resilience and willpower, in her own words.

During this period, he initially supported himself with his physical body, but when he could no longer support himself, he poured spiritual energy into his entire body, constantly flushing and expanding his spiritual meridians until he was completely exhausted. Then he climbed back into the cave and began a night of cultivation.

This method is tiring, but the benefits are huge.

Each night she absorbs much more spiritual energy than the day before, her spiritual energy circulates and is stored faster, and her body feels stronger.

And so, through day after day of rigorous training, Feng Siyue's cultivation level improved rapidly.

At the beginning of the third month, Feng Siyue successfully raised her cultivation level to the first rank of Great Spirit Master.

This also means that the moment for her to refine pills with spiritual fire has finally arrived!

Orange flames burst forth from beneath the black alchemy furnace. Feng Siyue controlled the heat with one hand while methodically adding Spirit-Stabilizing Grass with the other. Today, it was still a first-grade Qi-Stabilizing Pill.

The Spirit-Solidifying Grass slowly burned into a green liquid in the alchemy furnace. Then, Feng Siyue tried to isolate it with her mental power and began to refine other medicinal materials.

Unexpectedly, halfway through the refining process, another ball of green liquid was burned to ashes because the heat was too intense.

She finally realized that if she couldn't refine several medicinal herbs at the same time, there was a high chance that the herbs would be wasted during the later stages of alchemy.

In other words, she must learn to control multiple medicinal herbs in the refining process, which requires her to have extremely strong control over her mental and spiritual power.

A classic question: draw a circle with one hand and a square with the other.

This puts Feng Siyue in a bit of a predicament.

Then she started doing something that Xuan Li found very puzzling: she stared at the wooden stick on the ground for most of the day, and later she used the stick to draw circles with one hand and squares with the other.

As the morning passed, Feng Siyue didn't seem to have made any progress, so she could only begin the next stage of her practical training.

The two headed south, and as they walked, Feng Siyue suddenly smelled a bloody odor.

She pulled Xuan Li, who was walking forward, and put her index finger to her lips.

Xuan Li nodded, then hid behind a nearby tree and quietly peeked through the leaves.

Feng Siyue tried to conceal her aura as much as possible and looked over the bushes in front of her. Three young men and women wearing the same white uniforms were confronting a wild boar covered in flames!

Judging from the aura emanating from that wild boar, it was probably at the peak of the third tier, similar to a peak human spirit master.