Ning Shu’s career in alchemy was very bumpy. It had been more than ten days since she started working with the furnace, but she actually still hadn’t managed to make a single pill.

  The biggest reason for this was that the pill wasn’t able to take form. It was always a pile of goo. Ning Shu felt crushed. How come when other people refined pills, their pills always popped out of the furnace shining with golden light?

  Qing Yue looked on from the side and finally shook his head. He said, “This furnace is a divine artifact among furnaces and can help people refine pills. However, even this can’t seem to save you.”


  Ning Shu was annoyed. She shot a sidelong glance at Qing Yue. “Then how long did it take you to refine your first pill?”


  Qing Yue took a while to think about it. “It took about a thousand or so years.”


  “The frick? You still dare to laugh at me when you yourself took a thousand years? At least, I won’t take a thousand years.” Ning Shu curled her lips in disdain.

  Qing Yue said, “The human race’s things were too complex for me. I had to waste countless hours in the beginning in order to figure out just what alchemy was.”


  Ning Shu felt a little guilty. “I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have laughed at you for being retarded.”


  Qing Yue: ……

  Ning Shu felt lightheaded from struggling to learn alchemy. Like Qing Yue said, it was very complex. The spiritual grasses and spiritual fruits had to be put in in a certain order and there also had to be a certain amount of time between putting each in.

  She couldn’t just mash everything up and doze off by the side after having dumped all the materials in the furnace at once.

  “Let’s put aside refining pills for now. Let’s learn setting formations first,” said Ning Shu, changing the subject.

  Qing Yue looked at Ning Shu. “The spell formations are equally complex. There’s the Hidden Stems of the Strange Gates with the Strange containing the sun, the moon, and the stars. The Gates includes rest, life, pain, limit, view, fear, death, and open. The Stems, the sixty-year cycle, which includes the rat (first year), the dog (eleventh year), the monkey (twenty-first year), the horse (thirty-first year), the dragon (forty-first year), and the tiger (fifty-first year), are hidden beneath the six main decades. The six main decades also include……”


  “.……” Just like a retard.

  Ning Shu laughed hollowly. “Tell me slowly.”


  Ning Shu began the life of reciting the ten Heavenly Stems and twelve Earthly Branches, as well as all kinds of complicated pairings. Ning Shu smiled. She frickin’ might as well just practice martial arts.

  Ning Shu felt like she was about to fall apart.

  But no matter how difficult it was, she still had to learn. These things could turn out to be useful one day.

  She had depended on her basic medical knowledge to get through many worlds.

  Once she learned these things, even if she was in a difficult situation in a task world, she could still at the very least set up a roadside stall to give out divinations.

  It was all for the sake of being able to complete tasks easily.

  Ning Shu burned these things into her brain while Qing Yue guided her from the side.

  Whenever she was tired, she’d cultivate. When she had cultivated enough, she would again start learning how to refine pills and make formations.

  After learning slowly but constantly like this, Ning Shu felt like her spiritual consciousness was much stronger than before. Now when she refined pills, she could even sense all the changes happening in the spiritual grasses and fruits.

  Almost three months later, Ning Shu finally managed to refine a furnace-full of fasting pills. However, they were all of different shapes and sizes, and not at all smooth and round. They were too lacking compared to the fasting pills she exchanged from the system mall.

  They looked really ugly.

  Ning Shu tried one of the pills. Even though it looked ugly, it still worked.

  Just being able to condense the pills was already a very good start. If she practiced more, her pills could become smooth and round.

  As for making pills with auspicious cloud markings, Ning Shu decided to simply treat them as myths. It was already hard enough to make them smooth and round.

  In addition to alchemy, Ning Shu had also placed a few formations around the yard. However, they were very simple and Qing Yue could spot them with a glance.

  Ning Shu actually wanted to make them more complex, but these things had to be laid according to the rules. The success of a formation depended on the time and place, heaven’s will, and various other factors.

  Every time she set down a formation, she would use up all the treasures in her pocket. Every key point of the formation needed something at its center to hold it down.

  But, they were all destroyed by Qing Yue every time. Her spell formations were completely useless.

  Ning Shu wasn’t discouraged. They might not be useful against Qing Yue, but they were still very effective against ordinary people.

  Translator: Lili

  Editor: Emi

  TLC: Kaho