Chapter 54: Energy Liquid

Although Luo Bi didn't particularly care about joining the combat team, being rejected still left her feeling somewhat displeased; however, she had no heart to dwell on it now.

After several consecutive days of furnace explosions, Luo Bi had had enough. Early in the morning, she glared unkindly at the remaining spiritual plants. The spiritual plants Feng Ling had bought her could refine a total of ten bottles of Hemostatic Powder, but half had already been wasted. Was she supposed to keep refining the remaining half like this?

Luo Bi knew in her heart that something was wrong; if she continued refining this way, the result would still be a furnace explosion.

Feeling discouraged, Luo Bi didn't want to do anything. She paced around her room, grabbed a red fruit from the refrigerator, and munched on it with a crunching sound. As she ate, her gaze fell upon that First-Grade Crimson Jade Stone. Having used it five times, she wondered how much fire crystal energy was left inside.

Given how much she had been tossing it around, there probably wasn't much left.

Luo Bi completely lost interest in refining medicine. Since it was going to explode anyway, she tossed the spiritual plants into the cauldron and began refining while munching on the red fruit. She first released her mental strength to guide and control the fire source. Since her mind wasn't on the medicine, she found the bright red Crimson Jade Stone quite beautiful to look at.

Luo Bi was refining medicine purely for fun. Her manipulation of the fire source didn't follow the video tutorials at all; her mental strength barged violently into the Crimson Jade Stone, pulling out whatever it encountered that was a fire source.

The raging flames nearly singed her, giving Luo Bi a fright. *Damn it, this time it's definitely going to explode.*

Once the fire source was guided out, Luo Bi had the leisure to explore other things. Her mental strength dove deep into the Crimson Jade Stone, crashing blindly left and right. *Huh?* Luo Bi strangely discovered that the internal structure of the Crimson Jade Stone held a whole different world, filled with dense, various patterns. Driven by curiosity, she focused on the flowing red liquid that scurried along the patterns.

As she played, her obsessive-compulsive tendencies kicked in. Whenever she saw the red liquid, she pushed it toward a single spot. Those countless patterns were like a maze; if a path was blocked, she would seek another route. Luo Bi found this phenomenon very novel, and a faint urge for perfectionism took hold—she was determined to drive all the red liquid into one place.

When Luo Bi was finally at her wit's end from the headache, she succeeded in driving all the red liquid into a single space. Suddenly, her pupils shrank, and she was stunned. The condensed mass of red liquid actually escaped from the Crimson Jade Stone.

What on earth is this???

Her mind raced. Luo Bi stared at the red liquid in disbelief. It couldn't be what she was thinking, could it? It shouldn't be; that would be impossible. She was currently refining spiritual medicine; even though she was multitasking, she hadn't neglected her actual task. How could she have produced something else?!

After a moment of daze, Luo Bi cautiously withdrew the fire source, terminating the refining process.

Since they didn't hear the expected sound of a furnace explosion on time, everyone was wondering what happened. Feng Ling, who was in the middle of a meeting, received a call from Luo Bi. He stood up and walked aside, only to hear Luo Bi say, "You should come back for a moment."

Not hearing the explosion, Feng Ling was also feeling somewhat worried. Hearing her words, he didn't ask for the reason; he simply said goodbye to the captain, Qin Yilang, and immediately headed home.

Upon entering the house, Feng Ling went straight to the second bedroom. As soon as the door opened, Luo Bi used her mental strength to control the red liquid and said to him, "Feng Ling, look, is this energy liquid?"

Feng Ling looked over and was shocked—it really was energy liquid. He walked over quickly, taking out a liquid bottle from his storage ring to collect it. "What happened? Weren't you refining spiritual medicine the whole time?"

For someone who had never even come into contact with energy knowledge to suddenly extract energy liquid while refining medicine—even with Feng Ling's sharp mind, he was somewhat bewildered at this moment.

(End of Chapter)