After that, no matter how much the others coaxed and cajoled, Zhao Shuning remained silent.
What exactly was the show she was talking about? It was believed that the result would be out in no more than ten days. By then, the roles they were going to play would be crucial.
Ten days was also enough time for them to gather enough herbs.
Now, Zhao Shuning could already ignite flames in the palm of her hand. She had been promoted to a third - rank alchemist. When refining spiritual pills, there wouldn't be as many mishaps as the first time.
Fortunately, these second - year students didn't think much of the spiritual herbs at the First Height. Their targets were all spiritual beasts.
Well, since their ranks had reached the second level, these low - rank spiritual herbs were indeed of little use to them.
But for Zhao Shuning, it was completely different.
For those spiritual herb masters who couldn't refine pills, herbs could only be used for bathing to temper their bodies.
Thanks to this, these herbs were left untouched.
Every evening, Shuang'er, Se Se and the others always managed to bring back seven or eight plants.
Zhao Shuning wasn't idle either. During these idle days, she had studied the terrain of the First Height carefully.
In a place like the Dark Swamp Land, since there was such an abundant water source, it meant that there must be cold pools nearby, and there should be quite a few of them. She chose a place close to their bamboo hut. Every night, Zhao Shuning would drive the others to the cold pool, then throw the spiritual herbs that couldn't be used to refine pills into the pool. After that, she would let them soak in it for an hour.
Actually, half an hour would have been enough. By then, the medicinal properties would have almost entered their bodies. But Zhao Shuning didn't agree. She came up with some strange reasons and forced everyone to soak for a full hour before getting out. She even lied to them, saying that she had been promoted to a second - rank spiritual herb master in this way.
The others were skeptical, but they still did as she said.
As for Zhao Shuning, she took advantage of this time to focus on refining pills in the bamboo hut.
Since there were a large number of herbs, Zhao Shuning used a generous amount when refining pills. The main pill she was refining this time was called the Taiyi Spiritual Restoration Pill.
The Taiyi Spiritual Restoration Pill could greatly increase the spiritual power of a spiritual herb master in a short period of time. With the remaining power of this pill, one could even break through to the second - rank spiritual herb master level.
However, the specific efficacy of the pill still depended on each person's physical constitution and absorption ability.
Zhao Shuning refined a total of fifteen pills and planned to distribute three pills to each person.
Thinking back to when she was in Qinghui Town, not to mention pills like this, even a single spiritual herb would cost her little uncle half his life to obtain. She never thought that the Misty Rain Tower would have so many rare medicinal materials. If she had had such a good spiritual herb field back then, she would surely have reached the third rank by now.
"Although these herbs are of little use to me, it would be a waste to just let them go to waste," Zhao Shuning said with a smile as she looked at the remaining spiritual herbs in the corner.
A strange idea suddenly popped into her mind.
Why not? Try to combine all these first - rank spiritual herbs and see what kind of pill could be refined?
Without hesitation, Zhao Shuning immediately put her idea into action.
But when she closed her eyes, she didn't notice that under the pile of herbs, there was a purple herb. There were faint glimmers of light flashing at its root.
It took Zhao Shuning almost half an hour to finish for the time being.
Even so, the pills refined from the remaining herbs still hadn't been successfully made. Judging from the current situation, at least four or five more rounds of refining were needed. But the others in the team were about to come back. Not wanting to expose her identity, Zhao Shuning quickly put away the unfinished pills.
"How strange," she murmured.
It only took her half an hour to refine a Taiyi Spiritual Restoration Pill, but for the pill she had just been refining, half an hour had passed and it hadn't even taken shape.
Although it was unexpected, it also piqued Zhao Shuning's sense of challenge.
She was determined to see what kind of pill could be refined from these messy spiritual herbs.