“Yes, Eldest Lady.”

　　Elder Li joined his fists and bowed with reverence. His eyes then turned to look at Gu Ruoyun who was heading towards the middle of the plaza.

　　“Little girl, are you certain that you want to refine the pill?” Elder Feng squinted his eyes, “Let me give you a piece of advice, don’t cause hardships for yourself! Even I had needed others to help me in the pill  refining process ¹. Based on your powers, you won’t be able to succeed at all! When that time comes and you embarrass yourself in front of this large audience, don’t blame me for not bringing it up earlier.”

　　Gu Ruoyun paused in her steps and turned towards Elder Feng. She smiled as she said, “Embarrass myself? Had you not done exactly that just moments ago? Oh, right, I’ve forgotten. You had pushed the reason for your failure in the refining process onto my Master! You then absolved yourself from the blame. This is why I want you to understand that your failure was really due to your own inability and had nothing to do with my Master at all!”

　　Gu Ruoyun had never intended to refine the pill in the beginning! However, she has no other choice but to do so now!

　　She knows that if she does not do this, her Master’s reputation will be dragged through the mud. Many would then push the blame for the failed pill refinement process onto her Master’s head!

　　Even though her Master was not too concerned about this, she refused to allow anyone to humiliate him!

　　“Hmph!”

　　Elder Feng scoffed icily and spoke in a voice filled with ridicule, “I’d like to see if you can succeed! If you succeed, not only will I no longer ask you to be my disciple in the future, I’ll even ask you to be my master!”

　　She won’t be successful anyway! Therefore, my promise does not count for much.

　　Under a shady tree not too far away, a man dressed in peach blossom pink robes gently fanned himself with his impish features raised into a smile. His eyes twinkled with a peculiar light just like a peach blossom.

　　“Elder Feng is far too savage.”

　　He then shook his head as his smile became even more impish until it was unimaginably beautiful.

　　“He has already lost by making that vow in front of Xiao Yun’er!”

　　Refining pills?

　　This may be something which was particularly difficult for others but for Gu Ruoyun, it was just as simple as eating a bowl of rice or drinking water!

　　One could compete against her in almost anything except for two things.

　　Spiritual beasts, and… Refining pills!

　　Otherwise, it would only result in angering oneself to death!

　　…

　　“Gu girl.”

　　Gao Lin nearly spouted careless words at the sight of Gu Ruoyun who was walking towards the center of the plaza. In the end, he had swallowed those words and was left with, “If you need any assistance, I’ll do everything I can to help you.”

　　Gu Ruoyun gently stroked her chin as she glanced at the medicine cauldron which had been blown to smithereens. She then replied calmly, “You don’t need to do anything else, just prepare the medicine cauldron for me.”

　　“Alright, I’ll send someone to do that.”

　　The result of a failed pill refinement process was an exploded medicine cauldron!

　　Therefore, prior to this, Gao Lin had already prepared a few other medicine cauldrons! He then issued the order and, very soon, a Medicine Sect disciple brought a new medicine cauldron over and placed it in front of Gu Ruoyun.

　　“Little girl, can you do it?”

　　Bai Zhongtian moved closer to Gu Ruoyun and spoke softly to her, “If it’s not possible, we should just concede now. Many have already failed on the mainland so there’s nothing to be embarrassed about if you fail.”

　　Gu Ruoyun did not respond to Bai Zhongtian. Instead, she only smiled at him before she turned away and took the pill formula from Gao Lin’s hand.

　　“This… This is…”

　　However, once she read the contents of the pill formula, Gu Ruoyun became stunned.