On stage, there were refining workstations made of transparent crystal. Yan Lingqing was in one of them, currently arranging her things.
She looked up when Li Luo walked in. "You really can't get away from that girl no matter where you go."
She had spotted him walking around with Lu Qing'er.
"Coincidence," Li Luo clarified.
"I think she's a little interested in you," Yan Lingqing said.
"No way! I won't let you sully our pure and platonic friendship!" Li Luo objected.
She coughed once dryly. "Well, it's none of my business, but the girl has standards. Still, I wonder if you will be able to hold back the queens over at the Astral Sage College."
"It's getting out of hand now. Queens? Then what am I? A king?" Li Luo countered.
"You wish."
Yan Lingqing scoffed. She handed him a formula. "This is the spirit liquid I'm going to refine. Familiarize yourself with it."
Li Luo carefully read it. The fourth-grade spirit liquid was called Cyanobacteria. It was a rather difficult spirit liquid to get right, as fourth-grade liquids went. Evidently, Yan Lingqing was holding nothing back against Song Qiuyu.
He scanned the list of ingredients and then inhaled sharply. There were more than 400 of them. Processing each one perfectly would be quite a test of one's refining skill.
"This is the formula for a fourth-grade spirit liquid? Incredible." Li Luo marveled. He could only refine second-grade spirit liquids for now, for which he had to handle at most 100 types of ingredients. That was nothing compared to a fourth-grade spirit liquid.
Besides, the fusions between the fourth-grade ingredients were even more complicated. For second-grade ingredients, at most a fusion of two ingredients was required. But for fourth-grade ingredients, up to six ingredients needed to be fused. It was a huge leap in difficulty.
Staff members were starting to deliver refining ingredients, and they were soon neatly piled up nearby. As the assistant, Li Luo went to inspect them.
Yan Lingqing smiled approvingly at Li Luo's meticulousness.
Time ticked on, and soon the various head resonance artificers of the villas in the Tianshu Province were all in their own refining workshops. Li Luo spotted Song Qiuyu entering the Pine Nut Villa's as well.
The moment she stepped on stage, her eyes met Yan Lingqing's. Electricity sizzled between them.
Yan Lingqing showed a blank face, but veins could be seen popping from her clenched fist.
"Why do I get the sense that you hate her a lot?" Li Luo asked curiously. Yan Lingqing was one who rarely cared about anything besides spirit liquids and purifying lights. And yet she reacted strongly to Song Qiuyu.
Yan Lingqing fell silent for a moment. "We used to be on pretty good terms. I even forced a recommendation to get her into my teacher's refining group. But in one crucial competition, her error caused our group to lose. Our teacher was furious and kicked her out.
"That wouldn't be anything major, but later on she entered another refining group. Specifically, the one that beat us in the last competition because of her error."
"That's mean." Li Luo agreed.
Yan Lingqing was silent. It was not hard to guess that Song Qiuyu had probably been bought out by that team.
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