Heaven, Earth, Me-Chapter 1156. Concocting The Ointment.

Kali’s work was meticulous and delicate. While purifying, macerating, and cooking the medicine, her hands didn’t stop for a second. Slowly but surely, the medicine for the man took shape not in the form of a pill but as an ointment.

To create a high-level ointment, the Alchemy Cauldron was only used at the last step to boil all the materials into a paste. The Alchemy Masters kept a close eye on Kali’s working process and couldn’t help but become immersed in it. The fox woman’s mastery was truly exceedingly high, far beyond what someone of her age should have.

The wife felt tired after giving out a drop of her Blood Essence. However, she didn’t collapse and continued looking almost without blinking. By her side, one of her friends who knew Alchemy was asking with a frown. “Don’t you think you’ve gone too far this time around? How could you entrust your Blood Essence to a stranger?”

The woman didn’t change expressions and asked flatly. “Do you have any other solution?”

“I… But-”

“His time is running out!” The wife looked at her friend, her expression full of sadness and pain. “How many years has it been? How many years since he became nothing but a cripple!? I wouldn’t mind if he lost his strength. At most, I would just take care of him! However, look at him! He is rotting away!”

The woman’s eyes shone with unshed tears but full of determination. “We promised to be together in sickness and health. To cross mountains of swords and seas of fires together. Now, that girl is my last choice. Even if she asks for my soul, as long as I can remain clear, I will give it to her!”

The people around the woman couldn’t help but look on with admiration. ‘Such mutual loyalty… what an impressive couple.’

Yasenia was not that far away from that woman, so she heard her words. However, she didn’t find it strange. On the contrary, they resonated deeply with her. If she was in a similar situation, she would’ve most likely done the same. Her gaze turned toward her Honey and smiled faintly. ‘I know you can do it, love.’

Meanwhile, Kali’s forehead was glistening with sweat. The mental fortitude and energy control needed to manipulate Transcendence-Ranked herbs were incomparable to Heaven Ranked ones and below. Once a Herb crossed into the Sixth realm, they gained a faint spiritual intelligence. Therefore, they were resistant to being manipulated.

The Alchemist would need to suppress the will of the Alchemy material and grind it into usable medicine. After all, if there was any hint of lingering consciousness and it awakened mid-concocting, the entire batch of pills could go berserk. Don’t underestimate the energy inside an Alchemy Cauldron while using Transcendence Ranked materials and above. If the explosion was too violent, it could kill mortal alchemists with easy and heavily injure Transcendence Realm ones!

Thankfully, Kali was not crafting a Transcendence-Ranked ointment. Otherwise, she might’ve been in some trouble energy-wise. She would be exhausted even with her ridiculous reserves if she wasn’t careful.

Kali’s process was neither fast nor slow. Among the competitions, she was right in the middle. Others finished quickly because they knew the answer to the ailment lingering in their patients, and the opposite happened as well.

Master Xian and Master Fu, the top two Alchemists, had finished long ago. Master Xian was looking at Kali, her usually cold eyes shining with appreciation. For her, anything that wasn’t related to Alchemy was uninteresting and superfluous.

Of course, Master Fu, who was trying to court Master Xian, was not like her. “Master Xian, what do you think of that junior?”

Master Fu began the conversation with something that he knew Master Xian would want to talk about. They had known each other for a very long time, so he knew what the woman was thinking. As he expected, Master Xian’s cold and calm voice reached his ears. “Talented. Her movements are slightly stiff when dealing with Transcendence Ranked materials. However, that’s normal due to the gap between their realms. Even then, she is able to extract around 90% of the herb’s medical properties. She is even better than some other participants.”

Master Fu had spoken casually, not paying attention to Kali at all. However, after hearing Master Xian, his eyes flashed with surprise, and he started observing Kali more closely. First, he couldn’t help but analyze her appearance.

Neither tall nor short, the fox woman stood at 170 centimeters tall without counting her large and fluffy fox ears. Her body was covered with a relatively loose green and pink robe, but her curvy and motherly figure couldn’t be hidden by it. Wide hips, naturally large and full breasts, and a slim waist that could be hugged easily. The skin on her hands was smeared with the medical fluids, but that gave the perfectly slender and white hands a tempting aura.

Once his gaze landed on Kali’s serious and focused face, he almost couldn’t hold back a sigh of admiration. ‘Such a beautiful, gentle, and attractive face.’

Kali’s eyebrows were gently curved, and her foxy green eyes were tilted gently, giving the usual seductive glance a touch of elegance and tenderness. Her pink and smooth lips and perfectly smooth white skin contrasted with her thick chestnut-colored hair. Moreover, the fox's ears added a cute edge to her mature beauty, making those looking at Kali want to hug her and take care of her.

‘She does not lose out compared to Xian’er… I almost didn’t notice her because that dragon woman in her group sucked my attention away.’

Thinking of the dragoness, his gaze couldn’t help but look into the crowd, quickly spotting her. ‘... Beautiful beyond words.’

Master Xian’s voice snapped him out of his daze. “Oh, she is going to concoct the ointment now. Good speed, neither rushed nor too relaxed. The more I look, the more I like her.”

Master Fu blinked and looked at Xian. “You really took interest in her, eh?”

Master Xian’s indifferent face gained a smile. “Yes. I’ll ask her after the competition. Once I see her pill-making strength, I’ll know if I really want to accept her or not.”

Master Fu chuckled. “Is Xian’er finally going to pay attention to something else other than Alchemy? I am jealous that it is that woman who did it and not me.”

Master Xian blinked, confused, and looked at the man by her side. He has been following her for almost a millennium already. The comments he usually made hinted that the man had some interest in her becoming Dao Companions. However, he never truly made a move, so she always thought he was just teasing. Honestly, she didn’t mind that much because he was a talented Alchemist close to her own talent.

However, she didn’t take the first step herself because she heard a few of her good friends tell her that he was somewhat lecherous. Even though he was following behind her, it wasn’t as if he didn’t go on dates with other women. ‘... Well, whatever. I’ll just wait until the day he honestly confesses. It is also not logical to keep him prude because he is interested in me… or is it?’

Master Xian was a complete dork in romance, and she didn’t plan to study it, so she quickly looked at Kali’s concocting process.

Master Fu hummed. “Quasi-Transcendent?” Master Xian similarly hummed. “Can she really heal that man’s affliction with such a low-level medicine?”

“We’ll see when she finishes.”

Kali continued the concoction, and before the end of the boiling process, she dropped the Blood Essence into the cauldron. Many opened their eyes in disbelief, and some people even jumped backward.

“Is she crazy!?”

“A drop of Blood Essence from a Transcendence Realm senior has too much energy to throw it in raw!”

“The cauldron will explode! Run!”

Kali closed the lid and then sat cross-legged in front of the cauldron. Then, the Blood Essence touched the mix inside the cauldron.

BOOM!

A terrifying aura soared to the sky, creating a pillar of light that spilled from the sides of the cauldron’s lid. Kali expanded her energy into a giant sphere and then spread her own arms.

Her eyes focused, and she made a compressing motion. “Condense!”

Clankclankclank!

The lid and cauldron trembled like crazy as if they were a pressure bomb about to go off. However, Kali’s face showed no trace of fear, and her soul pressed upon the berserk aura, compressing it.

The trembling became more violent, and the cauldron almost jumped out of the fire-pill. Master Xian and Master Fu’s expressions became solemn as well. ‘Isn’t she afraid? The energy there is enough to kill her many times over!’

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Kali’s green eyes flashed with an incomparable solemn light, and her aura burst, clashing against the medicine inside the cauldron.

BOOM!

“Form, Medicine!”

The giant sphere shrunk in an instant, becoming the size of the cauldron, and the trembling completely stopped.

It was an instant, a single gesture. And yet, the process that looked about to fail succeeded.

“Huh?”

“How is this possible!?”

Kali breathed out and smiled. “Great success.”

After cleaning her sweat and her hands, Kali approached the cauldron and opened the lid. A thick black smoke soared upward, full of impurities that Kali had extracted. The formations around Kali activated, sucking up the black smoke and cleansing the air. The judges couldn’t help but approach, and the grandma asked softly. “Junior Kali, can we take a look at the ointment?”

Kali was about to scoop it into a jar, but hearing her words, she stopped and smiled. “Of course. Please, take a look.”

The five judges curiously leaned over and looked inside the cauldron. Their eyes widened when they saw a dense and light pink substance at the bottom of the cauldron. The scent from it was not too good, having a hint of blood. However, it was not revolting.

The quality was Quasi-Transcendence, as Kali had said. However, it was infinitely closer to a Transcendence-Ranked medicine. The only reason it didn’t break through was that Kali didn’t allow it to. This made the judges curious. The grandma asked confusedly. “Little girl, why didn’t you allow it to reach Transcendence Rank? Wouldn’t it be more powerful that way?”

Kali smiled. “Indeed. If it reached the Transcendence Rank, the potency would be more than twenty times stronger. However, what Senior needs is not an invasive and powerful medicine. Senior needs a mild and soothing substance that slowly reverses the damage he has suffered over the years. Transcendence Ranked medicine would be like drinking numbing poison to heal an injury.”

The eyes of the people listening flashed with understanding. Kali moved forward, waving her hand to scoop everything up with telekinetic powers and poured it into a jar. She tightly closed the lid of the 4-liter jar and nodded. “This should be enough to treat Senior. He needs to apply it all over his body once a month for ten years. Then, he will be completely cured.”

The judges were supposed to wait until later, but they were too curious. “Little girl, what was the cause of his ailment?”

Kali looked at the man’s wife and smiled. “Her.”

Everyone froze, and the wife also widened her eyes in incomprehension. “Ha?”