On the empty land, as time passed by, Tang Xuan's refining on that side was unexpectedly approaching its end.

  After all, with his senior fourth-grade Qu Xiang master's strength, refining a third-grade spiritual water and strange light is not a particularly difficult task.

  Another incense stick later, in Tang Yun's refining room, there was a clear metallic sound, and rays of light shot out, then Tang Yun was seen holding a crystal bottle with a smile on his face.

  Inside the crystal bottle was a pale red liquid, which was exactly his successfully refined "Hongni Ling Shui".

  There were some sighs of admiration around, and as expected, Tang Yun refined the "Hongni Ling Shui" at the fastest speed.

  Their eyes turned to the refining room opposite, where Li Luo was still frowning and continuously merging various materials, apparently his refining process had not yet been completed.

  In terms of speed, Tang Yue obviously has an absolute advantage.

  If this assessment is about the speed of refining spiritual water, Li Luo has probably lost miserably.

  But even so, the headquarters of those refining masters already had a worried look in their eyes, because they really didn't know how Li Luo, this newly promoted third-grade refining master, could compare with Tang Yun, this fourth-grade refining master.

  Is this third assessment going to be lost?

  After that, headquarters had to provide Xiling County Branch with the source of secret method water unconditionally, which was simply aiding the enemy.

  Some gazes turned to Jiang Qing'e, only to find that the girl who was now in Luolan Prefecture and had a reputation that even surpassed Li Luo's, had an absolutely beautiful face, a tranquil expression, golden eyes that shone like the morning dew, making people unknowingly calm down the anxiety in their hearts.

  The murmurs in the field gradually subsided, and everyone looked at Li Luo's refining room, waiting for him to finish his refining.

  And this wait was exactly one hour.

  During this time, Li Luo's refining also had several mistakes, resulting in the loss of some materials. Fortunately, it did not affect the overall refining process, only prolonging the refining time.

  Finally, when a red liquid appeared in Li Luo's crystal tube, a burst of applause erupted from the scene.

  Li Luo's refining process ended without incident.

  In the refining room, Li Luo also wiped the sweat from his forehead. He had thought that this refinement would fail and had made preparations to restart it, but fortunately those mistakes did not affect the refinement.

  He held the crystal bottle in his hand and walked out of the refining room.

  He and Tang Yun both walked to the center of the two refining rooms, with everyone watching in bated breath.

  "The Shaofu master's innate talent is truly astonishing." Tang Yun gazed at Li Luo, his words sincere and admiring. Although Li Luo's speed in refining the third-grade spiritual water was relatively slow, he had ultimately succeeded nonetheless.

  It's worth noting that Li Luo has just advanced to the third rank of Qu Xiang Master, and generally speaking, his success rate in refining three-rank spiritual water is not high. However, Li Luo managed to steady himself despite some danger earlier and successfully refined "Hong Ni Ling Shui".

  Such means, can be seen as innate talent.

  Li Luo smiled and didn't say much more. He beckoned with his hand, and a servant brought over two testing needles.

  "Tang Yuanchang, let's begin this final step, shall we? Also, is there anything else to check?" Li Luo smiled and gestured.

  Tang Xuan fell silent for a moment, took over a testing needle, but did not check it. Instead, he sighed and said, "The young master's heart is as vast as the sea. Why should I be petty?"

  He immediately inserted the needle into the "Hongni Ling Shui" in his hand with a serious expression.

  Many tense gazes were cast over.

  Then everyone saw that the verification needle in Tang Xuan's hand, which represented the degree of refinement power, climbed to a certain value.

  Fifty-seven percent.

  For this tempering power, all the tempering masters nodded slightly, because the formula of "Hongni Ling Shui" is only a two-star formula, so its tempering power is also barely around 60%, while Tang Yun can reach 57% of the tempering power. Although it's not top-notch, it's still an above-average result.

  Especially for Li Luo, who had just advanced to a third-grade Quenching Master.

  It is worth noting that most of the three-product quenching masters who have just started to refine their products can hardly exceed 52% of the quenching force.

  Li Luo glanced at Tang Yun's refining power, and didn't say much either. Under the gaze of many eyes, he also put the Refining Needle in.

  After counting his breaths, he looked at the scale on the acupuncture needle and suddenly smiled.

  "Is this... fifty-eight percent?"

  "It seems I'm quite lucky, just a little bit taller than Tang Yun after all..."

  He raised the thermometer in his hand, and everyone's eyes could clearly see the scale on it, then the atmosphere became a bit stagnant at this moment.

  Everyone's face was filled with incredulity.

  Li Luoluo's "Hongni Ling Shui" actually has a refining power that is slightly higher than Tang Yun's?!

  How is this possible!

  Wow!

  The whispers burst out at this moment, and everyone was shocked. Fortunately, the impression Li Luo had given everyone during this period of time was that he was gentle in character, sincere to others, and a talented genius, so although the result was extremely shocking, no one suspected for the time being whether Li Luo had done anything behind the scenes.

  Tang Yun was also somewhat distracted, staring at the verification needle in Li Luo's hand, silent for a few seconds before a bitter smile finally appeared on his face: "Young Master Li, your innate talent for Quenching is also too terrifying."

  Both parties' materials were exactly the same, and they had already done many checks on this before. Moreover, both parties' refining processes were also conducted in full view of everyone, so he really couldn't think of any place where Li Luo could have cheated.

  Rather than cheating, it can only be true.

  Tang Yun could only believe that Li Luo's innate talent for alchemy had reached a rather frightening level. He had heard of the existence of such geniuses, who were born with extremely keen senses and could grasp the subtle changes in various materials during repeated fusions, giving them an absolute advantage when refining spiritual water and strange lights.

  In the absence of any other reason, Tang Xuan could only think that Li Luo was one of those rare geniuses.

  Looking at Tang Yun's bitter smile, Li Luo also felt a bit embarrassed. In fact, if he were to refine normally, he would probably not be able to compare with Tang Yun. After all, he had just advanced to the third rank and was still not familiar with refining the third-rank spiritual water of Qiguan. However, once he spent more time at this level, surpassing Tang Yun wouldn't be a problem.

  As for being able to surpass now, it is completely due to his own special water light condensation secret method source water.

  But strictly speaking, this thing is not considered cheating, because the source of the secret method is Li Luo's own force condensed and refined, which is his unique innate talent.

  Of course, Li Luo does not intend to make any explanations about this for now.

  Among the many voices, Li Luo's gaze also turned to those branch refining masters. At this time, the latter's expression looked a bit dazed because Tang Yun had also lost this assessment, which means that they had failed all three assessments.

  As agreed upon earlier, they will also leave the headquarters and return to Xiling County. At the same time, the headquarters will no longer provide them with the Secret Origin Water.

  Their time at headquarters has come to an end.

  At the thought of this, a sense of unease rose up in their hearts. After getting used to better conditions and prospects, who would want to go back to that unremarkable branch in Xiling County?

  There's nothing but a miserable existence there, but here at headquarters, they can go further with the help of the headquarters in their cultivation of Quanzhen Taoism.

  They don't want to leave.

  But they're from the Bai Huang faction!

  Before leaving Xiling County, it was still Pei Hang's instigation that made them feel resentful and came to the headquarters to make trouble.

  At that time, Pei Huan also gave them a farewell wine and said that he would definitely fight for their fairness.

  In such circumstances, can headquarters still accommodate them?

  Just as the branch division cultivators were looking at each other in dismay, Li Luo stood up. He gazed at everyone with a warm smile and said, "If all of you want to stay at the Qingyang House headquarters, then I will represent the entire Luolan Prefecture in welcoming you."

  "You don't have to mind anything that happened before, even if you followed Pei Hang's orders and did some things. I can promise you that we will let bygones be bygones. On this point, you should also have communicated with the masters from headquarters during this period."

  Looking at the warm smile on Li Luo's face, Tang Yun and Lu Xiao Feng both secretly sighed. This young master of the Ministry of War had finally revealed his ambition after all these days of brewing.

  He obviously wants to swallow these departmental tempering masters.

  But can they stop it?

  The two of them exchanged a glance at the expectant and nervous eyes of those branch division cultivators, let out a bitter laugh, this young master's methods were truly formidable. They had clearly come to cause trouble, but in the end, he had unexpectedly won over their hearts instead?

  Such means, indeed worthy of being the children of the two masters.

  However, although others might choose to stay, Tang Yun and Lu Xiao Feng did not plan on doing so, after all Pei Huan had shown them some kindness.

  So at this time, both of them stood up.

  "Director Shaofu, your magnanimity is like the ocean. We've all felt it during this period of time. If these brothers from the branch can gain a better future at headquarters, please let them stay here." The two men said with clasped fists.

  Li Luo looked at them and heard the intention of parting in their words, sighed: "Don't you want to stay?"

  Tang Yun let out a bitter laugh and shook his head slightly, then also didn't want to say more, and was about to take his leave.

  Clang!

  And just then, in the distance, a strange bell sound seemed to ring out, with waves rippling and echoing above the Qingyang Building headquarters.

  The moment the bell rang, Tang Xuan and Lu Xiao Feng suddenly felt a little wet in the corner of their eyes. They touched it in confusion, only to see their hands full of fresh blood.

  Li Luo's pupils also suddenly contracted at this moment, because he was standing opposite the two of them and clearly saw that the corners of their eyes, nostrils, and ears all had black blood flowing out.

  Seven orifices bleeding.

  In an instant, Li Luo's mind was racing with thoughts. He turned his head expressionlessly towards the cultivators of the various branches, and indeed discovered that all of them had black blood flowing out of their seven apertures.

  It was a sweltering summer day, and the sunlight on his body made Li Luo feel wave after wave of chill.

  Surroundings were in chaos, terrified voices burst out, and his eyes also became extremely cold.

  It turns out this is Pei Hang's trump card.

  He brought a batch of poisonous gift packages.