Absolute Resonance

;er was alarmed to hear this.
The Song family must have been planning to make their move at this festival.

Their goal? To surpass the Suncreek Villa and dominate the spirit liquids and purifying lights market in the Tianshu Province.

Over at House Luolan's side, Cai Wei felt a tingle of excitement upon seeing Yan Lingqing rally herself.
She knew of the grudge between the two.
If she lost here, it would be a big mental blow.

Still, she was very anxious.
She did not understand how Yan Lingqing could possibly turn this around.

Soon enough, another bell rang out, reminding participants that the time limit was approaching.

Song Qiuyu folded her arms across her chest, resting her head against the crystal wall at an angle.
She cocked an eye towards a fully-focused Yan Lingqing, watching her struggle with pleasure.

“Yan Lingqing, how helpless! It will not save you,” she hissed.

Ding!

Another bell.

Yan Lingqing put down her hands.
Her face was pouring with fragrant sweat, her chin tucked in.
Close to 1,000 ingredients had been prepared, and the toil on her had been incredible.

However, the preparations were all done.

It had gone much more smoothly than she had ever done before.

But the final step was to refine the watersource and then fuse all of the prepared mixtures together to form the final spirit liquid.

It was an equally important step.

Yan Lingqing took a deep breath and picked up a polymerization crystal.

Li Luo put his hand on hers.

Yan Lingqing looked at him, puzzled.
If not for the gravity of the situation, she would have thought he was hitting on her.

“Sister Lingqing, let's do this together.” Li Luo gave her a sunny smile that dazzled her for a moment.

Recovering, she nodded.
Although she did not really understand what he was doing, she trusted him.

Both used their resonant powers together, infusing the polymerization crystal.

A pure light settled within the crystal.
Next, droplets of watersource began to condense and drip down into a crystal vial.

Li Luo's face was pale.
He had used up virtually all of his resonant power.
Although he was much weaker than she was, the purity of the watersource that he could produce was a cut above Yan Lingqing's.

With the two working together, the result would have to be better than a watersource that Yan Lingqing produced alone.

Holding the vial up, Yan Lingqing looked at the purest watersource she had ever produced.

It was all thanks to Li Luo.

She again turned to stare at him, and he grinned at her weakly, his face pale.

“Sister Lingqing, the show's yours.”

With a slight incline of her head in acknowledgement, she started to bring the ingredients together, adding test tubes to the bottle of watersource.

When they injected the watersource, the test tube solutions glowed, filled with lifeforms fusing together and creating new possibilities.

The changes would take the better part of a minute before subsiding.

Within the crystal vial, the liquid bubbled and quietened, and its color gradually faded away.
At the same time, beams of light danced merrily within.

“Hua!”

The crowd was getting excited now.
The resonance artificers were even more astonished.
From the dancing lights, they could tell that this was more than a fourth-grade spirit liquid.
It had to be a fifth-grade spirit liquid!

Yan Lingqing stared at the crystal vial, lost in thought.
Finally, she stretched out a trembling hand and inserted the tempering measurement needle.

It climbed to 58!

Her eyes lit up like the sun.

The crowd roared, led by the commentator.

“Suncreek Villa! Yan Lingqing! Fifth-grade Heavenward spirit liquid, SUCCESS! Tempering strength, FIFTTTYYYY EIGHT!”  

ROAR!

After a stunned silence, the crowd exploded with excitement.
The Suncreek Villa had barely finished in time, but they had managed to produce a fifth-grade spirit liquid!

And it was even higher than Song Qiuyu's!

Incredible!

Amidst the cheers, the smirk on Song Qiuyu's face was frozen in time.