Chapter 307: Big Baby Bai Bai Mengmeng

However, what Li Luo didn't expect was that this awkwardness came faster than he had imagined.

Early the next morning, while he was still asleep, he was jolted awake by a frantic knocking on the door. He hurriedly got up to open it, blinking sleepily at the girl standing at the doorway.

It was Bai Bai Mengmeng.

At this moment, she was sporting dark circles under her eyes, but her pure, lovely little face was full of excitement and thrill. She looked at Li Luo, who had opened the door, and said eagerly, "C-Captain... I-I did it!"

Li Luo didn't react at first, still a bit groggy: "What did you do?"

"A four-star Spirit Water Wonder Light formula!" Bai Bai Mengmeng's little face flushed red.

Li Luo gave a sudden start, the last traces of sleepiness swept clean away in an instant. He stared at Bai Bai Mengmeng in shock: "You succeeded?!"

"Mm!"

Bai Bai Mengmeng nodded vigorously.

"Wait while I change my clothes." Li Luo was overjoyed, then yanked the somewhat caught-off-guard Bai Bai Mengmeng into the room and shut the door behind them.

Meanwhile, on the balcony, Student Xin Fu, who had been sunbathing, watched this scene with slightly narrowed eyes, and suddenly felt another surge of creative inspiration.

Bang!

But the tightly shut room door was quickly pulled open again, and Bai Bai Mengmeng, her little face flushed red, poked her head out. This time, the redness had spread all the way to the roots of her ears.

Her little face burning hot, she muttered, "Honestly, Captain, why drag me in just to change clothes..."

"Although..."

"The Captain's figure is actually pretty nice."

The room door was opened once more, and Li Luo, now changed, stepped out. He gave Bai Bai Mengmeng at the door a somewhat awkward smile and said, "Sorry about that, I got too excited just now."

The understanding girl shook her head, because she was just as excited, and Li Luo's excitement could only be greater than hers.

"Let's go, to the refining room, we'll try refining it ourselves." Li Luo couldn't wait any longer. He grabbed Bai Bai Mengmeng and hurried toward the basement downstairs, and when his gaze swept past the balcony, he spotted Student Xin Fu, who had been watching them all along.

Student Xin Fu gave him a gentle smile.

Looking at that smile, Li Luo felt that this kid was showing signs of stirring up trouble. But right now he really had no mind to deal with him, so he could only hope this teammate wouldn't keep walking further and further down the path of seeking death.

Li Luo pulled Bai Bai Mengmeng all the way to the refining room.

Then Bai Bai Mengmeng took out a sheet of paper made of special material, a kind of paper impervious to water and fire, the most durable for preservation. On the paper, many elegant, delicate characters were carefully recorded.

Bai Bai Mengmeng handed it to Li Luo with solemn reverence, saying somewhat proudly, "Captain, this is a four-star Third Rank Spirit Water formula."

Li Luo carefully took this absurdly valuable formula, his gaze sweeping over it carefully. It detailed the fusion processes and reactions of numerous materials, involving the deduction and variation of many intricate details.

The more Li Luo read, the more amazed he became. After all, he was now a Third Rank Refiner himself, and had seen no shortage of Spirit Water Wonder Light formulas, so he could tell at a glance just how rare and ingenious Bai Bai Mengmeng's formula was.

And each of these fusion processes required countless attempts, as well as an extremely profound understanding of the properties of those countless materials, in order to strip out their characteristics and fuse them through multiple variations, ultimately obtaining the desired products.

"Worthy of a four-star formula..."

Li Luo sighed. In the Great Xia, Spirit Water Wonder Light formulas were divided into five star grades. The higher the star grade, the rarer and more powerful the formula. Simply put, the higher the star grade of the formula, the higher the upper limit of the refining power of its finished product.

For example, for the same Third Rank Spirit Water, the Spirit Water produced from a two-star formula could reach a refining power limit of sixty percent.

A three-star formula could push the upper limit of refining power to sixty-five percent.

A four-star formula would see another boost, with the limit of refining power reaching an astonishing seventy percent!

In other words, the grade of a Spirit Water Wonder Light formula would determine the upper limit of the refining power of its finished product.

If it was a low-star formula, even if a high-rank Refiner personally took action, aided by Mi Fa Source Water of extremely high purity, it would likely be very difficult to exceed its limit.

This was a case of even the cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice.

No matter how strong your ability, no matter how high the purity of your Mi Fa Source Water, the grade of the formula limits your performance, so what difference could the final result make?

This was also the fundamental reason why all the major Spirit Water Wonder Light houses attached such importance to the grade of their formulas.

Of course, reaching the limit refining power of a formula was not that easy either. Previously at Xi Yang House, when Li Luo competed with Tang Yun in refining Hong Ni Spirit Water, that was only a two-star Third Rank Spirit Water, whose limit refining power should have been sixty percent, but even with the aid of his own Mi Fa Source Water, Li Luo's finished product only reached fifty-eight percent.

Although this was partly because Li Luo had just been promoted to Third Rank Refiner, it still showed that reaching the limit of a formula was no simple matter, even for a mere two-star formula.

"This is a Third Rank Spirit Water formula, and I'm now exactly a Third Rank Refiner, so I can refine it and see." Li Luo was somewhat impatient.

Bai Bai Mengmeng nodded. Her ability lay more in researching formulas; her own actual refining skills weren't that high, so after this formula was developed, she had never actually refined it herself.

To put it simply... the formula taking shape was only theoretical; it still lacked the final practical test.

Of course, once a formula reached this stage, it was already ninety percent successful.

The refining room had quite a few materials stored in it, leftovers from Bai Bai Mengmeng's earlier research, and among them happened to be exactly what this four-star Spirit Water formula required.

So Li Luo immediately began refining.

However, once he started, his expression gradually grew solemn. Their Xi Yang House was not without Third Rank Spirit Water formulas, but the complexity of those formulas was more than one tier lower than the one Bai Bai Mengmeng had developed.

It could only be said, worthy of a four-star formula.

So at the very beginning, Li Luo unsurprisingly failed over a dozen times.

Failing so many times made Li Luo's expression turn a bit unsightly. He then gave an awkward smile to Bai Bai Mengmeng, who had been watching him eagerly the whole time: "It's my first time handling such a high-star formula, bear with me."

It sounded so pitiful one could cry—after all, he was the young master of Luo Lan Mansion, how could he be this miserable?

"Go, Captain!" the girl offered encouragement.

Li Luo nodded firmly, then gathered his focus, suppressing his nervousness and restlessness, and continued to throw himself into battling this four-star formula.

And this time, things finally went much more smoothly.

After a full hour of layer upon layer of fusion, Li Luo had nearly burned through all the materials in the refining room, and his refining finally reached its final stage.

Before him stood eighteen crystal tubes in silence, each one condensed with hundreds of material crystals.

Li Luo took a deep breath, let out a low shout, raised both palms, and channeled his phase force.

He saw the materials in the eighteen crystal tubes shoot out, converging in midair before him, as if forming a water vortex.

The vortex swirled, phase force rose and fell.

After roughly several minutes like this, the vortex began to dissipate, and drops of liquid shimmering with faint starlight quickly dripped down, falling into a crystal bottle in front of Li Luo.

As the last drop fell, Li Luo snatched up the crystal bottle, and an irrepressible look of wild joy surfaced on his face.

"Success!"

Bai Bai Mengmeng beside him was equally thrilled, and quickly handed over a quenching-testing needle.

Li Luo inserted it into the crystal bottle.

Both of them watched with extreme nervousness.

Then they saw the needle's pointer instantly jump to the sixty-percent mark.

Li Luo sucked in a cold breath — this terrifying? Just the first refinement, and its quenching force had already reached the limit of Xiyang House's Crimson Mud Spirit Water!

Once he grew more skilled at refining, wouldn't the quenching force be even higher?

This explosive result could completely confirm that the formula Bai Bai Mengmeng had researched was absolutely a genuine four-star grade!

"Wow! I did it!"

Bai Bai Mengmeng excitedly grabbed both of Li Luo's hands, unable to resist cheering and jumping for joy, because this was also the first time she had ever researched a four-star grade formula.

Li Luo gazed at the delighted girl before him and swallowed hard.

What a real treasure she is!