Lu Li didn't dare to delay. He quickly left his cave dwelling and stopped to take a look. Only then did he find that the door of the adjacent alchemy room was already open. He immediately tidied up his clothes and walked in.

"Close the door." Xiao Jue said while cleaning the alchemy furnace when he saw Lu Li coming in.

Lu Li took a look at the mechanism button beside the door and tentatively pressed it. After a crisp click, the door began to slide down slowly.

"How's your memorization of the medicinal herbs I asked you to remember?" Xiao Jue asked casually, without showing any emotion on his face.

Lu Li quickly took out the "Spiritual Herb Treasury" from his arms and handed it over. "Reporting to the Elder, I've already memorized it all."

"Already memorized it all?" Xiao Jue raised his eyebrows, took the "Spiritual Herb Treasury", and casually summoned a plant with eight long leaves, which was dark blue all over but had red roots. "What's this?"

Seeing this, Lu Li's pupils immediately contracted, and his breathing became a bit rapid. This... This was the Thunderfire Orchid used for refining the Piercing Acupoint Pill!

Seeing Lu Li's expression, Xiao Jue thought that Lu Li was nervous because he hadn't memorized the book well, and his face turned cold. "Speak!"

Only then did Lu Li react. "It's the Thunderfire Orchid. It takes a hundred years to reach the first rank and can grow up to the second rank at most. It prefers sunlight and dislikes shade. It grows in open areas. No other spiritual herbs can survive within ten zhang around where the Thunderfire Orchid grows..."

"You've even memorized the properties and growth environment?" Xiao Jue couldn't help showing a surprised look on his face when he heard this.

Then he took out another spiritual herb that was similar in shape to the previous one but bright red all over. "What about this one?"

"Blood Crystal Grass. It takes a hundred years to reach the first rank and can only reach the first rank at most. It suits both yin and yang and grows in places with rich spiritual energy..."

Hearing this, Xiao Jue was even more astonished.

He took out several more spiritual herbs and asked Lu Li to answer. Lu Li had no difficulty at all. The moment the spiritual herbs appeared, he immediately gave the answers. By the end, Xiao Jue was completely dumbfounded.

He still couldn't believe that there was someone in the world who could memorize the entire "Spiritual Herb Treasury" within seven days.

After all, there were more than six thousand kinds of spiritual herbs recorded in it.

So he directly opened the "Spiritual Herb Treasury" to a place closer to the back, found a spiritual herb that he himself had never seen before, and said, "Tell me the annotation of the Soul Infant Fruit."

"Soul Infant Fruit."

After thinking for a moment, an image of a gray fruit that looked like a baby suddenly appeared in Lu Li's mind, and he said, "The Soul Infant Fruit starts at the fourth rank, and its rank increases by one every thousand years. It belongs to the yin attribute and fears the yang attribute. It mostly grows in the places where the powerful beings in ancient battlefields were buried. It's a peerless spiritual herb for enhancing the strength of the divine soul..."

"You... You!" Xiao Jue widened his eyes. After comparing, he found that Lu Li's words were exactly the same as those in the book. For a moment, he was so shocked that he couldn't say a word.

After taking a deep breath, he sighed with emotion all over his face, "I have to say, your memory is terrifying. I felt dizzy and couldn't read on after just looking at the first thousand kinds of medicinal herbs in this 'Spiritual Herb Treasury'. I didn't expect that you..."

Lu Li naturally wouldn't tell him that he had read it for more than two months. He said respectfully, "Your disciple has just been a bit more diligent."

"Diligent? Are you implying that I'm not diligent enough?"

"Ah?" Lu Li was stunned and didn't know how to answer.

"Just kidding with you. Look how scared you are. Alright, since you've already memorized it, I won't make things difficult for you anymore. From now on, just work hard here. I won't treat you unfairly."

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After saying that, he asked Lu Li to start sorting out the medicinal herbs.

After sorting them out, Xiao Jue started refining pills again. Lu Li quietly waited for his instructions. When he saw that Xiao Jue was sweating on his forehead, he carefully walked over to wipe his sweat and then went back to his original position to continue waiting.

"This kid."

Xiao Jue thought he had a thick skin, but he didn't expect that this kid had an even thicker skin. Feeling soft-hearted, he said a few more words about alchemy knowledge while refining pills.

Lu Li was extremely happy and secretly remembered what the other party said in his heart.

After refining one spiritual herb, Xiao Jue asked Lu Li to put in the second one. Lu Li remembered that Deng Qingsheng was scolded last time, so of course he wouldn't use his hand to open the lid of the furnace. With a turn of his eyes, he found a special rag on the alchemy platform before Xiao Jue could say anything.

He used the rag to lift the lid of the furnace a little, quickly threw the spiritual herb in, and immediately covered it back. According to Xiao Jue's instructions, the liquid medicine in the alchemy furnace was extremely sensitive to temperature changes after being refined, so it was necessary to minimize the temperature changes as much as possible.

In fact, Lu Li had tempered his body, and the temperature of the furnace lid couldn't do anything to him. He did this just because he didn't want Xiao Jue to scold him for being forgetful.

Xiao Jue nodded approvingly when he saw this.

The two of them were busy in the alchemy room, while Deng Qingsheng in a cave dwelling on the cliff in the back mountain of Tianjue Peak was so angry that he punched the rock wall. Considering that he was a genius with three spiritual roots and had reached the fourth level of Qi Refining only six years after entering the sect, he couldn't believe that he was so ignored.

"It's all your fault, all your fault!"

Deng Qingsheng clenched his fists until they made cracking sounds, and his eyes shot out cold rays. "Just you wait. I definitely won't let you off easily!"

Dong! Dong! Dong!

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door of the cave dwelling.

"Push it in." Deng Qingsheng's face was as gloomy as water. He opened a gap and said in a deep voice to the lame fat man outside.

There was a restriction on this iron door. Once it was closed, only Xiao Jue's token could open it from the outside. After he came in, he could only obediently wait for Xiao Jue to come and let him out six months later. However, Xiao Jue wouldn't let him starve, and he would ask Min He to bring him meals every day.

Min He was the lame fat man in the cafeteria.

Hearing this, Min He slid the tray through the gap in the door.

Just as he was about to leave, Deng Qingsheng suddenly stopped him. "Wait, do me a favor, and I'll give you a reward."

"I'm very busy recently." Min He said indifferently and turned around to leave directly.

It was Deng Qingsheng who had broken his leg. If he were strong enough, he would definitely kill this bastard, let alone help him do anything.

"A bottle of True Qi Condensing Pill!" Deng Qingsheng's eyes were filled with murderous intent, and he shouted loudly.

"True Qi Condensing Pill?" Min He stopped and said indifferently, "What's the matter?"

As the name suggests, the True Qi Condensing Pill was a pill that could transform spiritual energy into true qi. It could help people quickly refine spiritual energy and was a pill that Qi Refining stage cultivators were eager to get. Even in a place like the Qingyang Sect, an ordinary formal disciple could only get one bottle a month.

As for the servant disciples, they shouldn't even think about it.

If they really wanted it, they had to exchange it with contributions. One pill cost one hundred contributions, and one bottle cost one thousand contributions.

So when Min He heard the words "True Qi Condensing Pill", he immediately stopped. The spiritual energy on Tianjue Peak was quite rich. If he had the help of the True Qi Condensing Pill, he would surely be able to break through to the third level quickly.

"Help me kill someone." Deng Qingsheng saw that Min He had stopped and couldn't help showing a mocking smile, thinking to himself that a dog would always be a dog, only remembering food but not beatings.

"Impossible!"

Min He turned around and took a look at Deng Qingsheng. He didn't think it was a good deal to kill someone just for a bottle of True Qi Condensing Pill.

"Two bottles. Two bottles should be okay, right?"

Seeing Min He leaving directly, Deng Qingsheng pounded on the iron door crazily.

"Three bottles, or no deal!" Min He was ultimately tempted and walked back.

How dare you haggle with me! Deng Qingsheng hesitated several times, then gritted his teeth and said, "Fine, three bottles it is!"

"Who to kill?"

"That new medicine boy. He's only at the consummation of the first level. You're at the early stage of the second level. It'll be easy for you to kill him."

"New one?" Min He frowned and immediately knew who the other party wanted to kill. He said indifferently, "He's my brother. Don't you think this request is ridiculous?"

"Brother? Where the hell did you get a brother? Stop talking nonsense. Are you going to do it or not?"

"More rewards!"

"Hehe, you... How dare you play with me. Four bottles at most. Take it or leave it!" Min He was directly angered into laughter. With a flash in his eyes, he said, "Bring his head to see me within seven days. Payment upon delivery!"

That's what he said, but Deng Qingsheng didn't intend to give Min He the True Qi Condensing Pills at all. He thought in his heart that once you kill that kid, I'll expose you. Killing two birds with one stone, wouldn't that be wonderful.

"That won't work. Do you think I'm stupid? What if you renege on your promise?" Who knew that Min He wouldn't fall for it at all.

"What do you want?" Deng Qingsheng couldn't help but look at Min He with new eyes.

"At least pay two bottles as a deposit first!" Min He stretched out his palm and looked at Deng Qingsheng indifferently. "After it's done, pay the remaining balance. Payment upon delivery."

Hearing this, Deng Qingsheng clenched his fists until they made cracking sounds. After hesitating for a long time, he took out two jade bottles and threw them out. "I hope you don't play tricks on me. Otherwise... You know the consequences."