Chapter 307: The Great Treasure, Bai Mengmeng

However, what Li Luo did not expect was that this awkwardness would arrive sooner than he had imagined.

The next morning, while he was still in his dreams, he was startled awake by a rapid knocking on the door. He hurriedly got up to open it, looking at the young girl at the door with sleepy eyes.

It was Bai Meng.

At this moment, she had dark circles under her eyes, but her pure and moving little face was full of excitement and thrill. Looking at Li Luo who had opened the door, she said excitedly, "Cap, Captain... I, I succeeded!"

Li Luo didn't react at first, feeling a bit dazed: "What succeeded?"

"The four-star Spirit Water and Light formula!" Bai Meng's little face was flushed red.

Li Luo gave a sudden jolt, the remaining sleepiness swept away completely. He looked at Bai Meng in shock: "Succeeded?!"

"Mm!"

Bai Meng nodded vigorously.

"Wait for me to change my clothes." Li Luo was ecstatic, then pulled the somewhat caught-off-guard Bai Meng into the room and closed the door behind him.

At the same time, on the balcony, Xin Fu, who was sunbathing, watched this scene with narrowed eyes, suddenly inspired with creative ideas once again.

Bang!

However, the tightly closed door was soon pulled open again, and Bai Meng, with a flushed face, scurried out. This time, the redness had burned all the way to her earlobes.

Her face was burning hot, and she muttered: "Captain is really something, why did he pull me in just to change clothes..."

"But..."

"Captain actually has a pretty good physique."

The door was opened again, and Li Luo, having changed his clothes, walked out. He gave a somewhat awkward smile to Bai Meng at the door and said, "Sorry, I was too excited just now."

The understanding young girl shook her head, because she was equally excited, and Li Luo's excitement would only be greater than hers.

"Let's go, to the refining room, let's try refining it." Li Luo was impatient, pulling Bai Meng as he walked quickly toward the basement downstairs. As his gaze swept over the balcony, he saw Xin Fu, who had been watching them the whole time.

Xin Fu gave him a gentle smile.

Looking at this smile, Li Luo felt that this kid was showing signs of making trouble, but he really had no heart to deal with him right now, so he could only hope this teammate wouldn't walk further and further down the road of courting death.

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

Then Bai Meng took out a piece of paper made of special material; this paper was impervious to water and fire, highly durable, and on the paper, many delicate characters were carefully recorded.

Bai Meng handed it to Li Luo preciously and said with some pride: "Captain, this is a four-star, third-grade Spirit Water formula."

Li Luo carefully took this incredibly valuable formula and looked at it closely. It contained the fusion process and reactions of various materials, involving many detailed deductions and changes.

The more Li Luo looked, the more he marveled. After all, he was now a third-grade Refiner, and he had come into contact with many Spirit Water and Light formulas, so he could see at a glance the rarity and ingenuity of this formula of Bai Meng's.

And every one of these fusion processes required countless attempts, as well as a profound understanding of the properties of countless materials, in order to strip away their characteristics and perform multiple complex fusions to finally obtain the desired product.

"As expected of a four-star formula..."

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

For example, for the same third-grade Spirit Water, a two-star formula could produce Spirit Water with a maximum refining power of sixty percent.

A three-star formula could reach a maximum refining power of sixty-five percent.

A four-star formula had another improvement, with a maximum refining power reaching an astonishing seventy percent!

In other words, the level of a Spirit Water and Light formula determined the limit of its finished product's refining power.

If it were a low-star formula, even if a high-grade Refiner were to take action personally, supplemented by high-purity Secret Method Source Water, it would likely be difficult to exceed its limit.

This was the case of a clever housewife unable to cook without rice.

No matter how strong your ability was, or how high the purity of your Secret Method Source Water and Light was, the level of the formula limited your performance; what change could there be in the final result?

This was the fundamental reason why all major Spirit Water and Light houses regarded the level of formulas as so important.

Of course, the maximum refining power of a formula was not so easily achieved. Previously, when Li Luo and Tang Yun competed in refining Hongni Spirit Water at Xiyang House, that was only a two-star, third-grade Spirit Water, and its maximum refining power should have been sixty percent. But even with Li Luo using his own Secret Method Source Water, the final product was only fifty-eight percent.

Although this was also due to Li Luo being a newly promoted third-grade Refiner, it showed that reaching the limit of a formula was not a simple matter, even if it was only a two-star formula.

"This is a third-grade Spirit Water formula. I am currently a third-grade Refiner, so I can refine it and see." Li Luo was impatient.

Bai Meng nodded. Her ability was more in researching formulas; in fact, her own refining skills were not very high, so after this formula was researched, she had never actually refined it herself.

To put it simply... the formation of a formula was only theoretical; it still lacked the final practice.

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

In the refining room, there were many materials left over from Bai Meng's previous research, and among them were exactly what was needed for this four-star Spirit Water formula.

So Li Luo started refining immediately.

However, as soon as he started, his expression gradually became solemn. It wasn't that their Xiyang House didn't have third-grade Spirit Water formulas, but the complexity of those formulas was at least a grade weaker than the one Bai Meng had researched.

One could only say, it was worthy of being a four-star formula.

Therefore, at the beginning, Li Luo failed more than ten times, as expected.

Failing so many times made Li Luo's face look a bit unpleasant, and he gave an awkward smile to Bai Meng, who had been staring at him eagerly: "First time coming into contact with such a high-star formula, please understand."

It was heartbreaking to say; he was the Young Master of Luolan Mansion, how could he be so miserable?

"Captain, keep it up." The young girl offered encouragement.

Li Luo nodded vigorously, then gathered his focus, suppressed his nervousness and restlessness, and continued to bury himself in hard work with this four-star formula.

And this time, it was finally much smoother.

After a full hour of complex fusions, Li Luo had almost burned through all the materials in the refining room, and his refining finally reached its end.

In front of him, eighteen crystal tubes stood quietly, each containing hundreds of material crystals condensed within.

Li Luo took a deep breath, let out a low shout, raised both palms, and his resonant power surged.

The materials in the eighteen crystal tubes flew out, converging in the air in front of him, seemingly forming a water vortex.

The vortex swirled, and resonant power rose and fell.

After about a few minutes, the vortex began to dissipate, and drops of liquid shimmering with faint starlight dripped down rapidly, falling into a crystal bottle in front of Li Luo.

As the last drop of liquid fell, Li Luo grabbed the crystal bottle, an unconcealable, ecstatic look appearing on his face.

"Succeeded!"

Bai Meng, who was on the side, was also full of excitement and quickly handed over a refining test needle.

Li Luo inserted it into the crystal bottle.

The two of them looked on with extreme nervousness.

Then they saw the needle of the refining test needle instantly rise to the sixty percent mark.

Li Luo gasped. Was it this terrifying? Just the first attempt at refining, and its refining power reached the limit of Xiyang House's Hongni Spirit Water!

Once he became proficient in refining it in the future, wouldn't the refining power be even higher?

This explosive result could fully confirm that this formula Bai Meng had researched was definitely a genuine four-star!

"Wow! I succeeded!"

Bai Meng grabbed Li Luo's hands in extreme excitement and couldn't help but cheer, because this was also the first time she had researched a four-star formula.

Li Luo looked at the joyful young girl in front of him and swallowed.

This really was a great treasure!