The puppet's face always had a smiling look on it.

It's just a stiff expression that doesn't change in the slightest, no matter what happens, and any way you look at it, it's a look of being in need of a beating.

Li Mu said in a bad mood, "Why don't you go, wait for me which, then you mustn't be in a hurry, I'm a person who likes to work slowly, you wait patiently!"

Saying that, he placed those materials on the ground and carefully speculated on them one by one.

The others gathered around, looking at the materials and fretting.

Shen Xingyue asked worriedly, "Brother Mu, do you know how to make pills?"

"No way!" Reimu replied painfully.

"So what do you take it all down for?"

"Study it, you won't be able to do it left or right, so you might as well see what you understand first."

"See anything in the way?"

"More or less see, look, this is the dan furnace, this is the pot, this is the grinding mortar and pestle, this is the charcoal stove, flint, charcoal, pretty much everything, that's pretty much it."

What kind?

The crowd felt a little scared when they saw his confidence.

Lin Wan asked worriedly, "Hubby, are you serious?"

Li Mu replied in a serious manner, "Yeah, I really intend to refine pills."

"Don't be ridiculous, you don't know how to concoct pills at all, can you eat what you concoct?"

"It's not like you're allowed to eat it, so what are you afraid of?"

"I'm not scared, I'm thinking this, if the pills you refine don't meet the requirements, it might activate the punishment organ and put us in danger again."

"It doesn't matter, we are strong enough to protect ourselves, even if we touch the organ, it won't be hard for us."

Lin Wan laughed bitterly, ''Then have you ever thought that we've been very lucky and haven't encountered flying sands and streams of fire.

Once we encounter those two types of organs, even if our skills are great, we can hardly escape death, do you dare to take such a risk?"

Li Mu didn't say anything, you don't say, Lin Wan kind of asked the key point.

No matter how great the ability is, it can't carry sand burial and fire, if he really encounters those two types of organs, even if he is him, he can only wait for death with his hands.

He Xiaoyu said from the side, "Sister Wan, what you said is certainly reasonable, but if you don't let Senior Brother try, are you going to be trapped here alive?"

Little Brother Li immediately chimed in, "Right, it's a dead end anyway, why don't we take our chances, in case I'm right, won't we get away with it."

"How do you want to take your chances?" Lin Wan asked apprehensively.

Li Mu thought for a long time before he replied, "I'll analyze it first, and you guys judge if it's correct."

"Okay, go ahead!"

"I do, this level is like an exam, and since it is an exam, there may be more than one chance, and as the ancients used to say, once again, twice, never again, which means that we may have three chances."

The three men mulled it over for a while, thinking that there was some truth to his words, and that there might be more than one chance at this level for them.

He Xiaoyu asked, "Senior brother, what are you going to do, refine the dan three times?"

"Then it's a dead giveaway that it's only refined twice, the first time to feel the set and the second time to break the barrier."

The three women didn't understand and looked at him curiously.

Li Mu smiled and explained, "The first time you get a finished product haphazardly, feel out the other side of the bottom, the key is to verify the process, from which to find out the cracks, this is called know your enemy and know yourself, a hundred battles are not dangerous."

Lin Wan and the others all agreed, and we all agreed that messing around was definitely not an option, and doing nothing was even more so, and for the time being, this approach was the most prudent.

Say it and do it.

Little Brother Li began to pound the medicine, mixing those herbs together and pounding them into powder in a medicine jar.

He didn't know exactly what the ratios were, but anyway, I pounded as much as you gave me and didn't waste any of it.

Shen Xingyue stood by the side, not understanding what rhythm this one was going to perform, and asked curiously, "Brother Mu, does alchemy require this step?"

Li Mu said seriously, "You don't understand, alchemy and dumpling making are one and the same, both need to make the raw materials into a filling first.

The only difference is that dumplings have skins and come in all shapes and sizes, pills don't have skins and they are all pills.

Lao Tzu said it well, refining pills is like cooking dumplings, this is the unity of the Great Dao in the underworld."

The words coaxed the crowd into a daze, and Shen Xingyue asked in a small voice, "Are you talking nonsense?"

"It must be nonsense, how would I know what to do, mash it up first."

Little Brother Li spouted a bunch of nonsense and prepared to begin formal alchemy.

I just saw Chef Lee, no, Dan Lee, start to make the filling.

He poured some water into the pot of medicine and stirred it repeatedly with a mortar and pestle, mixing the powder into a wet dough.

When it's done, pick it out with your hand and put it under your nose and smell it.

You don't say, it smells good!

Little Brother Li said proudly, "See, that's half the battle, maybe I really got it right."

None of the three women said anything, covering their mouths and snickering.

Reimu ignored them and continued his own creation.

He puts the dough in his hands and kneads it repeatedly.

After kneading well, pull out a dosage with your hands and roll it into a round ball.

The women had fun watching and helping out together.

After the balls were rolled, Li Mu picked up one and said to the puppet, "What flavor does Lao Tie like, spicy or original, do you want chili cumin, and do you need to add a bunch of large cashews?"

The puppet smirked and eyed forward, unresponsive to his question.

Li Mu nodded and said to himself, "Old Iron isn't fussy, any flavor will do, so let's go with the original!"

From within the pile of pills, he picked out a large, round pill and carefully placed it into the tray.

The puppet opened its mouth and a small clip came out of it, catching the pill and then retracting it back into its mouth, which then closed as if something had fallen into its belly.

The crowd formed a huddle, each holding their weapons in their hands, ready to deal with any sudden danger.

After a while, the sound of a mechanism rattling came from inside the puppet's stomach.

Immediately after that, it opened its mouth and spat a crushed pill onto the ground viciously, and the expression on its face seemed to have become somewhat annoyed.

Needless to ask, it didn't work out and people were disgusted.

Li Mu and the others weren't discouraged, they had known this was the outcome, and they'd be damned if they could succeed.

For them, it's not unproductive.

At the very least, they already knew the verification method for this level, and it seemed that they only needed to take care of the puppets to break this mechanism.

Li Mu patted Lin Wan's shoulder and said cheerfully, "Wife, it's all up to you!"

Lin Wan was surprised, "What are you talking about, what can I do?"

"Why isn't there a way, don't you have a descending worm inside your stomach?"

"Bugfall, what can bugfall do?"

"Don't underestimate them, whether they live or die depends on them, you pick the most powerful descending insect, add it to the pills, and then, hey..."

Lin Niangniang came to a realization and immediately smiled with joy, praising her husband's cleverness one after another.

Truth be told, that's a pretty mean way to go about it.

Putting a descending worm inside the potion, the puppet unknowingly bellies the potion, and the descending worm wreaks havoc inside the puppet's belly, destroying the mechanism.

Li Mu wasn't sure that doing so would definitely get him through, but he had no better way to do it, and now there was nothing to do but not to break it, and there was no other way to do it.

After destroying the puppet, if he still couldn't get through, then he would have to admit it.

There were naturally few descending insects inside the belly of the Lin Niang Niang, and there were even fewer powerful descending insects.

She picked a pill and turned her back so her husband wouldn't see how she was handling it.

After all, two people often mouth to mouth, tongue entangled tongue, if Xiao Li brother saw the truth, it is possible that it will produce a shadow, thus affecting the harmony of the couple.

After handling the pills, Niang Lin handed them to Li Mu, signaling that her husband was ready to deliver.

Li Mu's heart was a bit uneasy, and when it came down to it, he rather couldn't be sure whether he should do it or not.

Lin Wan held his hand and said to him, "Go ahead and try, isn't there another chance, if it doesn't work this time, we'll think of something else."

Li Mu frowned and said, "I'm worried that after playing big this time, there won't be a third chance."

Lin Wan laughed, "So what, whether it's good fortune or bad fortune, we've always been together and never separated, you and I should be satisfied."

"My wife is right, I should be satisfied."

He Xiaoyu and Shen Xingyue also nodded their heads solemnly together, stating that we were fortunate enough to live and die together, and that whether it was a blessing or a curse, they could all manage to face it openly.

Liamu gritted his teeth and placed the pills in the tray.

Still in that same motion, the puppet extends the clip from inside his mouth and swallows the pill.

A moment later, its body trembled violently.

The limbs began to twist uncoordinately, striking a weird pose.

Li Mu and the others subconsciously stepped back, keeping a distance from it.

The puppet's movements became more and more distorted, as if performing a strange dance.

He Xiaoyu asked in a low voice, "Sister Wan, did it work?"

Lin Wan nodded her head and responded, "The descending insects are destroying the organs, this puppet won't last much longer."

As soon as the words fell out of his mouth, he heard a clattering sound, and the puppet shattered into wooden shavings, scattering everywhere.

A small black shadow shot out from the pile of wood shavings, and Lin Wan reached out to catch it, turned her back, and swallowed it into her mouth.

He Xiaoyu asked curiously, "Sister Wan, what is that?"

Lin Wan glanced at her husband and whispered to her, "I'll tell you alone later."

Li Mu's attention was on the wood shavings at the moment, as he tightly gripped the Plate Face Blade and slowly walked towards the front, with Xiao Bai following at his side, always defending his master.

When he came close, Li Mu nudged towards Xiao Bai, who used his scythe to peel away the wood shavings and found a few pieces of jade inside, other than that, there was nothing special about it.

Lin Wan and the others also came over.

Shen Xingyue picked up a piece of jade and held it in her hand to scrutinize it over and over again, muttering, "Could it be, that it is the core of the organ?"

Li Mu responded, "It must be it, the puppet used it to verify the quality of the elixir, although he didn't know what the principle was, but the key to breaking the barrier was it."

"What do we do?"

"Smash all these jades, so that this organ will lose its verification tool, and see how it can still trap us!"

Shen Xingyue asked without worry, "If we do this, will it anger the master of Mutsu Zhou Palace?"

"What's the point of getting angry, as long as we can break the barrier, he doesn't care what methods I use, even if he thinks that our methods are not lewd, it's because he didn't anticipate things well enough to allow us to take advantage of the situation."

Lin Wan also said, "Xing Yue, don't hesitate, smash it!"

Shen Xingyue agreed and slammed the jade stone down hard on the ground.

With a crisp cracking sound of falling, the jade became shattered.

Li Mu and Xiao Bai did it together and smashed all the remaining jade.

Right in front of the main hall, a portal quietly opened.