Junior Sister must ascend this time!

Seeing that the person had disappeared, the toad opened its big eyes and searched everywhere for Yun Qing's figure.

The next second, Yun Qing appeared above the toad's head, her spirit sword aimed at its tongue and slashed down. In an instant, sword light flashed everywhere...

"Clatter—"

The toad's tongue was completely cut off and fell to the ground. It let out a mournful cry and its body convulsed violently.

Yun Qing didn't give it a chance to continue attacking. She twisted her wrist, and the tip of the sword pointed straight at the top of the head, stabbing it in fiercely.

"Pfft—"

The toad's massive body stiffened abruptly, then deflated like a punctured balloon, slowly collapsing to the ground with a "thud" and remaining completely still.

During this process, Chen Zheng and the others were busy performing cleansing spells, their hands forming hand seals almost blurring into afterimages. Only after they had mostly cleaned the slime off their bodies did they hide to the side and watch the show.

This is a Foundation Establishment stage demon beast; Yun Qing has no chance of defeating it. Even if she were lucky enough to kill it, it would completely deplete her spiritual energy, at which point she would naturally be begging them for mercy, hehehehe…

As the toad collapsed, the mouths of the group gaped wider and wider.

"She...she, a Qi Refining stage cultivator, killed a Foundation Establishment stage demon beast?"

"Completely unharmed? She really didn't hide her true strength?"

Yun Qing sheathed her sword, dusted off her hands, and walked up to Chen Zheng and the others. "Gentlemen, how about we discuss a collaboration?"

"Cooperate? Who wants to cooperate with a piece of trash like you?" Chen Zheng placed his hand on the scabbard. "Enough nonsense! Draw your sword!"

Yun Qing stared at Chen Zheng's face. "If I remember correctly, you all got covered in the slime of the toad. If you don't get detoxified in time, you'll get covered in bumps like it, and eventually, it will ooze yellow slime."

She pointed to the toad lying on the ground and continued, "I know you're thinking that once you get out, a doctor will naturally detoxify you, but by then the scars on your faces won't be gone."

Unfortunately, I know how to make this antidote. Here are three numbers for you; decide whether you want to cooperate.

"three……"

Chen Zheng didn't believe Yun Qing could refine pills. "Why should I believe what you say? How dare you, a sword cultivator, spout such nonsense as claiming you can refine antidote pills?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Zheng suddenly felt an unbearable itch on his face and body, as did the others.

"two……"

Chen Zheng glanced at the toad lying on the ground, closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and asked, "What are your conditions?"

"Why didn't you agree earlier?" Yun Qing said with a smile, "If you want me to help you detoxify, you'll come with me to find the flag and the spiritual plants. I'll give you seven parts of everything we find, and you can have three."

Chen Zheng: "We're four, you're six."

Yun Qing: "I'll take eight, you two will take two."

Chen Zheng thought for a while and agreed. Anyway, once she finished refining the antidote pill, she would be useless. At that time, they could just eliminate her and all the flags and spiritual plants would be theirs.

Yun Qing thought so too; once they found all the flags in the Misty Forest, they would be useless to them.

So, the group, each with their own ulterior motives, came together.

To be fair, Chen Zheng and his companions were quite lucky. In just one day, they found a number of flags and mid-level spiritual plants, and they were only missing one ingredient to refine the antidote pill.

The next day they encountered quite a few demonic beasts, and every time this happened, Yun Qing would say, "Senior Brother Chen Zheng, hurry up! My hands are still needed for alchemy, I can't get injured..."

So, Chen Zheng and Wang Jin huffed and puffed as they killed the monsters, while Yun Qing happily picked up flags and spiritual plants in the back.

It wasn't until the morning of the third day that Yun Qing and the others found the last medicinal herb.

Chen Zheng looked at the small bumps on his body and said to Yun Qing, "The medicinal herbs are all ready. Can we start refining the pills now?"

Yun Qing thought for a moment and nodded, "That's fine, you guys stay away from each other."

With a skeptical attitude, Chen Zheng and the others retreated further and further away, vaguely feeling that something was not quite right.

After they had walked for a while, Yun Qing took out the alchemy furnace from her storage bag and then frantically tried to recall the ancient books she had read in the library.

She muttered to herself, "Should I put the Paris polyphylla first?"

"No, no. Let's put in the half-branch lotus first..."

Looking at her dilapidated alchemy furnace and the unreliable order in which she added the medicinal herbs, Chen Zheng and the others felt even more uncertain.

Wang Jin swallowed hard. "Senior Brother Chen Zheng, could she poison us?"

Chen Zheng nudged him with his elbow. "Shut up! What other choice do we have now but to believe her?"

Then the group saw Yun Qing quickly form hand seals, recite some incantation, and a small flame appeared in her hands.

How could she...create fire out of thin air? Is she a monster?

Yun Qing wasn't just experimenting blindly. She had read in ancient books that in the absence of earth fire, one could activate the wood spirit root within the body to generate pill fire using the "wood generates fire" method. Although not as stable as earth fire, it was convenient and could be obtained anytime, anywhere.

After completing all the preparations, Yun Qing's spiritual energy was somewhat depleted. She took out a spiritual fruit from her storage bag and started crunching on it.

Chen Zheng and the others were drooling at the sight, but seeing that Yun Qing had no intention of giving it to them, they could only secretly turn away and swallow their saliva.

Half an hour later, the lid of the alchemy furnace flew off, and then a fragrant aroma of medicine wafted out.

Chen Zheng was a little unsure: had it succeeded, or had it failed?

Although he wasn't a pill refiner, he knew that the pill lid wouldn't fly off after the refining process was complete. But the medicinal fragrance was incredibly strong…

He pushed Wang Jin out, saying, "Go and take a look."

Wang Jin really didn't want to go, but he couldn't beat Chen Zheng, so he had no choice but to walk to the alchemy furnace.

Then, he fell silent.

Chen Zheng frowned. She really was lying to me! I won't let her get away with this!

As he was thinking this, Wang Jin suddenly shouted, "Senior Brother Chen Zheng, it really is an antidote!"

Chen Zheng walked over with a skeptical attitude, and then he fell silent...

Ten perfectly round pills lay at the bottom of the alchemy furnace, a 100% success rate!

Is she really a monster?!

On the elder's platform, Linxu grabbed Mingyuan's clothes and shook her vigorously: "Look! This little girl doesn't seem to have high cultivation, but she actually refined pills under those conditions, and with a 100% success rate! A genius!"

"I see it! I see it!" Mingyuan was dizzy from being shaken so much. "None of our current batch of disciples knows how to refine pills. If she gets first place, our disciple lineup will be invincible!"

As he spoke, his gaze fell on the sword at her waist. Why did it look a bit like the one that Cen Ning had forged?

Xuanwei nodded approvingly, "Her swordplay when she killed the toad was fast, accurate, and unpredictable. Her understanding of swordsmanship is unmatched by other disciples."

Yuehua leaned lazily to one side, unusually agreeing with the other elders. She always felt that this child was capable of more than just this.

They were all secretly thinking that once the trial was over, they would be the first to rush over and take her as their disciple!

Yun Qing tossed the pills to them, then leaned against a tree trunk. "Here are the antidote pills. Whether you take them or not is up to you."

Chen Zheng hesitated for a moment. He couldn't completely trust Yun Qing, so he said to Wang Jin, "You eat first."

Wang Jingan chuckled twice, "Senior brother, you should eat first."

Chen Zheng glanced at him, then grabbed the pill from his hand and stuffed it into his mouth. Wang Jin had no choice but to swallow it.

He had already prepared his last words, but fortunately, a quarter of an hour later, not only was he alright, but even the bumps on his body disappeared.

Seeing this, Chen Zheng and the others also swallowed the pills. Soon, they were all cured of the poison.

Seeing that Yun Qing's attention was not on the two of them, Chen Zheng and Wang Jin exchanged a glance: Kill Yun Qing! Seize the flag!