Upon receiving the news, Jing Feng and Dong Fang Wu Ji arrived in the courtyard.
"Miss Bai, are you going to refine the Three-Pattern Pure Spirit Pill?" Jing Feng stepped forward, placing all the spirit herbs on the table in the alchemy room.
Bai Ran nodded slightly. In five months, not only had her strength grown, but her alchemist level had also advanced to the Emperor rank.
Long Jin Han's cold illness was acting up at increasingly shorter intervals. It was time to refine the pill and cure his cold affliction permanently.
"Refining pills will attract rainbow-colored heavenly tribulations. Has Long Jin Han arrived?"
As soon as Bai Ran's words fell, the space around her was torn open by a rift. With Long Jin Han came Long Yu as well.
Long Yu stepped forward and circled Bai Ran, his face full of concern. "Look, look, you've lost so much weight! How can this be?"
He had heard that Bai Yatou was here as soon as he returned to the Demon Realm and had eagerly come to find her. He hadn't expected that Bai Yatou would be in secluded cultivation and that no one could disturb her.
He had waited for five months.
Bai Ran chuckled softly, looking at Long Yu and shaking her head slightly. "Uncle Long, it's alright."
"Go and instruct the kitchen to prepare more nourishing medicinal meals," Long Jin Han said, looking up and giving instructions to Dong Fang Wu Ji.
"Yes, I'll go now."
Long Yu looked at the spirit herbs in the alchemy room, his brows furrowed. "Bai Yatou, are you really going to refine the Three-Pattern Pure Spirit Pill? Do you know what the consequences will be if you fail?"
Hearing this, Long Jin Han couldn't help but speak up, "You don't need to worry about me; you are more important."
"Yes, if this kid is in pain, let him be. You can't risk your life because of it," Long Yu urged earnestly, hoping to change Bai Ran's mind.
After all, rainbow-colored heavenly tribulations were no laughing matter. Since ancient times, when the Three-Pattern Pure Spirit Pill was successfully refined, a celestial phenomenon would occur, and rainbow-colored tribulations would descend with the pill's completion.
The terrifying intensity of it was enough to obliterate a prosperous city in an instant, let alone Bai Yatou alone.
"Uncle Long, you don't need to worry. Since I want to refine the Three-Pattern Pure Spirit Pill, I must have come prepared."
Bai Ran was not lying. To understand the rainbow-colored heavenly tribulations, she had specifically read through all the ancient books carefully.
"But..." Long Yu still wanted to say something, but he was interrupted by Bai Ran's gaze.
Her dark eyes were filled with arrogance, confidence, and a sense of ease and calmness in the face of all unknowns.
Meeting such eyes, all the words Long Yu wanted to say were choked in his throat, and he could no longer utter a single word of refusal.
Bai Ran looked at Long Jin Han and smiled. "Do you trust me?"
"Of course, I do," he replied without hesitation.
Bai Ran smiled deeply and put all the spirit herbs into her spatial dimension.
She knew that refining pills within the spatial dimension would not allow her to evade the rainbow-colored heavenly tribulations. No matter how long she hid in the dimension, the tribulations would descend the moment she exited.
However, it also made Bai Ran realize that the rainbow-colored heavenly tribulations would only descend once and in only one plane.
"Take me to that small world," Bai Ran said, and Long Jin Han knew what she was thinking.
He nodded slightly, slung an arm around Bai Ran's shoulders, and the next moment, he tore open space.
"You brat, if Bai Yatou gets hurt, don't come to see me again! Do you hear me!" Long Yu's shouts echoed as the two headed towards the spatial rift.
The small world the two were heading to was the same place Long Jin Han had brought her to when he formally proposed.
The sky was filled with brilliant sunset clouds, and the ground was covered with an endless expanse of pink daisies, rippling like waves with the gentle breeze, exquisitely beautiful.
"It's really a bit heartbreaking to think that this place will be destroyed by the heavenly tribulations," Bai Ran gazed at the small world for a long time, seeming reluctant to leave.
Long Jin Han extended his slender fingers, hooking a strand of Bai Ran's hair that had been blown out of place by the wind, and tucked it behind her ear. "Nothing is more important than your safety."
Long Jin Han didn't say he would create another one for Bai Ran because he knew that the reason Bai Ran was reluctant to leave this place wasn't because of its beauty.
It was because of the unique memories here, which could not be replaced by creating an identical world.
Bai Ran smiled, her ring on her hand shining brightly under the warm sun. "Then let's begin."
Long Jin Han released his arm from her shoulder and stepped back a certain distance.
Bai Ran raised her hand, and Fen Tian from her spatial dimension was released, transforming into a massive cauldron.
The rainbow-colored heavenly tribulations would only descend once. As long as the tribulations were lured out when the pill was formed, and Long Jin Han brought her out of this world, she could avoid danger.
However, it sounded extremely easy but was almost impossible to achieve. The speed of lightning was millions of times faster than human reaction.
If they failed, she and Long Jin Han would perish along with this small world, never to return to the side of everyone.
Bai Ran clenched her fist, took a deep breath, and slowly picked up the spirit herbs to begin melting them.
Her nerves were highly strung. Although the formula for the Three-Pattern Pure Spirit Pill was already memorized, facing a life-and-death situation meant that one wrong step would lead to an abyss, and there were no extra ingredients for her to try again.
Sunfall Grass, Sacred Dew, the thorax of a Responsive Worm...
As the spirit herbs were gradually integrated into the cauldron, the sky of the small world began to gather swirling masses of colorful thunderclouds.
The thunderclouds emitted terrifying crackles of electricity, accumulating and spreading, until finally, thick layers of clouds gathered over the entire small world.
Long Jin Han behind her also frowned, his spiritual energy swirling around him, constantly paying attention to Bai Ran's movements.
"Rumble—" A muffled thunderclap sounded, but Bai Ran's hands remained extremely steady, completely unfazed.
However, fine beads of sweat began to form on her forehead, and the spiritual energy within her body gradually dissipated.
Time ticked by, and golden-red flames leaped up, churning and roaring within the cauldron.
The final step... forming the pill...
Bai Ran gritted her teeth, glancing at the sky, ready to escape at any moment.
Steam rose from the top of the cauldron, and the aroma of the Three-Pattern Pure Spirit Pill wafted out. Bai Ran's heart pounded like a drum; it was the final moment...
Within the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, the Three-Pattern Pure Spirit Pill would be formed...
"Rumble, rumble—!" The thunder grew louder, and rainbow-colored lightning darted within the clouds, as if roaring and challenging Bai Ran.
Ten, nine, eight...
Bai Ran counted down the time for the pill to form in her mind, her palms sweating nervously.
Three, two...
"BOOM—!!" The rainbow-colored lightning suddenly descended, and immense spiritual energy surged towards Bai Ran and Fen Tian!
"One! Go!!!"
The moment the pill was formed, Fen Tian was thrown into her spatial dimension, and Bai Ran sprinted towards Long Jin Han.
The rainbow-colored heavenly tribulation descended directly, with world-destroying heat. Before it even touched her, the scorching sensation had already curled Bai Ran's hair!