Liquid medicine

  At this moment, the flames under the medicine cauldron have been completely extinguished. On top of the medicine cauldron, all kinds of medicinal materials have also disappeared one after another. Instead, a green liquid has appeared, and these liquids are now rotating drop by drop in the medicine cauldron.

  As for the legendary elixir, I haven't even seen half a pill.

  "What's going on here?"

  Du Fei's facial muscles twitched slightly, his gaze fixed on that drop of **.

  "Could this be the legendary Dan medicine? But it doesn't quite look like it..." After muttering to himself for a moment, Du Fei took a deep breath and said, "System, what's going on here?"

  "Beep—question clear, system searching... Answer: due to an irreversible error, the alchemy process has failed!"

  A cold electronic sound echoed calmly in Du Fei's mind, causing his mouth to twitch again.

  This is over a thousand gold coins! Just like that, it's gone?

  For a moment, Du Fei was at a loss for words, but he still sighed and said: "What is called an irreversible mistake!?"

  "Buzz! According to the alchemy formula, when taking in true energy and refining fire to refine the elixir, it can only be successful at the last step. If not, then the refinement of the elixir will fail!"

  "You knew it but didn't remind me!"

  "The host has no command, the system cannot start automatically!"

  Under the system's unreliable complaints, Du Fei was speechless for a moment, but according to what the system said, alchemy required true energy to refine fire. At this moment, he didn't have true energy, so it meant that this time's alchemy was completely failed.

  "It's really not easy being a master alchemist!" With a sigh, Du Fei slightly shook his head and his gaze fell back onto the medicine cauldron.

  "I just don't know... if I take this defective product, what kind of effect will it have?"

  The thought flashed through his mind, and even Du Fei himself was startled, but after hesitating for a moment, he still slowly stretched out his hand to pick up the liquid medicine.

  It's strange to say, but when Du Fei's fingers touched the liquid medicine, a part of it turned into water droplets the size of rice grains and stuck to his fingertips. The feeling was icy cold, making him shiver uncontrollably.

  "Give it a try!"

  Ideas kept popping up from somewhere, and although Du Fei also knew that doing so was extremely unreliable, the desire to become stronger continued to expand in his heart...

  At a certain moment, Du Fei finally gritted his teeth and quickly stuffed the drop of medicine into his mouth, without thinking, he swallowed it in one gulp.

  "Boom——"

  In less than a moment after the medicine entered his mouth, Du Fei only felt an explosion in his mind, and then, a bone-piercing chill suddenly spread from his lower abdomen to his whole body through his meridians. Almost in just one breath, a thin layer of frost had condensed all over his body, and even the temperature inside the entire room dropped sharply in an instant.

  "This...this time it's gone too far!" In his heart, Du Fei let out a bitter smile and sighed with a hint of helplessness. However, the moment he let out that sigh, it instantly condensed into frost in front of him.

  "Beep - Low-level crisis detected. System friendly reminder: Tai Chi Fist can resolve this crisis. Will the system auto-start?"

  When Du Fei was unable to calm down, the system once again calmly reminded him.

  "This unreliable system, has finally worked once!?" Du Fei was overjoyed and instantly negated the self-starting command. His body, which had originally started to tremble, slowly unfolded its posture under his willpower.

  "Bang——bang bang bang——"

  As he followed the trend, his stiff and numb fists had slowly swung out. At first, with every movement, the icy chill on his limbs made him feel a sharp pain all over his body. However, as his movements continued, although the feeling of coldness remained, the sharp pain gradually subsided. After completing one set of fist movements, the sharp pain almost disappeared, but the piercing coldness still lingered.

  Du Fei let out a slight breath, just as he was about to retract his stance, but in the instant that he retracted it, another wave of piercing coldness emanated from his dantian once again.

  "What's going on?!"

  Du Fei cursed in a low voice, but had no choice but to quickly deploy his Mianquan once again...

  Soft moonlight pours in from the window and falls on the frost-covered ground, reflecting an eerie glow.

  In the room, Du Fei's upper body was bare, standing in the center of the house, his hands constantly changing movements, and with the movement of his hands, his feet moved back and forth, appearing ethereal and mysterious to the extreme.

  As he moved, in the brief moments of stillness, a layer of frost would spread across his skin, but when his next movement appeared, the ice would also quickly fall off from him.

  It's like shedding skin, one time after another, until it reaches an extreme level of weirdness.

  And these frost are not pure white, in the frost, there is a hint of dark grey, only this dark grey is very light, if not intentionally noticed, no one would find out.

  "Drink——"

  With a low shout, Du Fei's figure slightly shrunk, and immediately punched forward. Along with this punch, the air in the house was all mobilized, forming a spiral airflow that violently struck out towards the front.

  After this blow, the frost that was originally falling slowly fell off instantly, and Du Fei's skin also flashed with a few unusual glows in an instant. At the same time, a burst of cracking sounds continued to echo.

  But when he finished his last move, another layer of frost appeared, only this time the frost seemed to have decreased a lot compared to the previous one.

  Du Fei seemed to smile wryly, but he didn't hesitate, and another set of tempered fist techniques were unleashed, causing the temperature in the entire room to drop by a few degrees instantly.

  "Hmm..."

  The last punch was thrown, but this time there was no longer a chill of ice from Du Fei's dantian, he took a slight breath before slowly opening his eyes, and after scanning the surroundings with his gaze, he couldn't help but let out a bitter laugh.

  Just then, Du Fei's face suddenly lit up with joy, and he muttered to himself: "This medicine looks like it has a violent nature, but...it actually seems to have some amazing effects......just by taking one drop, I can already break through the fifth level of Body Tempering?"

  After that, Du Fei's gaze fell on the medicine cauldron in the room covered with frost, looking at the remaining few drops of medicine liquid, and a strange color flashed in his eyes.

  Not to mention anything else, just the fact that after taking the medicine, I cultivated this whole room full of ice frost... Ordinary ninth-grade elixirs shouldn't have such an effect, maybe I inadvertently created something extraordinary!

  From the inner room, a crystal bottle was found, and the remaining medicine liquid was carefully poured into it. Looking at the bottle still having more than half of the medicine liquid, Du Fei's heart felt a slight joy.

  If one's luck isn't bad, then taking all these medicinal liquids should allow them to reach the seventh level of Body Tempering, right?

  Tempering Body Seventh Layer!

  This is the current goal, only when I reach the seventh level of Body Tempering, will I have the strength to compete with Du Qing!

  Du Fei firmly believed that if he reached the seventh level of Body Tempering, even without practicing any martial skills, he would still have an extremely high chance of defeating Du Qing!

  "What's next is to continue cultivating!"

  Du Fei took a deep breath, quickly tidied up the inner chamber, and only after the ice and snow had mostly melted did he find a set of clothes to replace the ones that were mostly shattered during his cultivation. He then slowly walked out of the inner chamber.

  "Master, you've finally come out! If you hadn't, I would have burst in!"

  As soon as she stepped out of the inner chamber, Xiao Ai sat in the middle of the room with a worried face. Her expression relaxed for a moment before she couldn't help but say.

  Du Fei walked a few steps forward, reached out and rubbed Xiao Ai's head, smiling: "What? You're worried just after a short while?"

  "Wait a minute!?" Little Ai's face was shocked, "Young Master, have you been practicing alchemy to the point of stupidity?! You've been in there for half a month! If I hadn't been able to feel your breath all along, I would have burst in long ago! By the way, Young Master, when did you become a monster? Fifteen days without eating or drinking, and yet you're still so spirited?"

  "Half a month?" Du Fei was slightly stunned, and his face also flashed with a few shades of shock.

  The most time it takes to refine the elixir is only half a day, which means that for the rest of the time, you are cultivating yourself?

  The medicinal power of that liquid is incredibly overbearing! It took him half a month to fully refine that single drop of liquid!

  It's no wonder, I somehow have a feeling that I'm about to break through to the fifth layer of Body Tempering!

  For a moment, Du Fei sighed inexplicably and once again deeply realized that he seemed to have picked up a treasure.

  "Speaking of which, young master, have you successfully cultivated that elixir?" Little Ai looked up with a puzzled face.

  "It's probably practiced enough," Du Fei hesitated after some thought, the medicinal properties of that liquid were too intense, he didn't dare bring it out for Xiao Ai to take, "But maybe we'll need to practice a few more times before she can use it."

  "It's all right as long as you're safe, Master!" Little Ai said in a low voice.

  "If it's really a successful elixir, I'll definitely let you try it first to see the effect!" Du Fei rubbed his nose, looking rather embarrassed. "Speaking of which, has anyone come to cause trouble in the past half month?"

  "It's not that there isn't, it's just that what happened at the market that day seems to have spread back to the family. The elder sent someone to pass on a message, asking if I'm interested in becoming his disciple and continuing my cultivation." Little Ai hesitated for a moment before speaking in a low voice.

  Upon hearing this, Du Fei's eyebrows slightly rose. The great elder of the Du family, Du Zhenshan, was said to have already entered the 8th rank of martial arts for many years and probably had the strength of a mid-8th rank martial artist. Such a strong person would actually take an interest in Little Ai? However, after thinking for a moment, Du Fei felt somewhat enlightened. Someone like Little Ai, who was only in her teens but already had the strength of the 9th level of Body Tempering, would be considered a top genius anywhere, and it was natural that the family would care so much about her.

  And this great elder takes in disciples, probably it's not just as simple as taking in disciples, right?

  Du Fei sneered and said indifferently, "Xiao Ai, you handle this matter, after all, we are under someone else's roof. Whether we accept or refuse, it will probably cause trouble. At this time, both of us still need to endure... But believe me, soon you won't have to bear it anymore!"

  Upon hearing this, Xiao Ai also revealed a slightly surprised expression.