206 Medicinal Pill Workshop (1/2)

Xue Wei was quick to consume the Flamethorn Pill, and with it came a burst of energy that assaulted every sense in his body. This energy was exceptionally pure and bright as it spread from Xue Wei's mouth to every cell in his body.

It did not raise his strength. Instead, the wave of medicinal energy sought out impurities in his constitution and started seeping into the thousands of qi dragons that were within his body.

A normal person had strands of qi circulating around in their bodies, but the ones in Xue Wei's body had taken the shape of dragons. All of them glistened with an azure light.

Although the number of dragons did not increase after he took the Flamethorn Pill, they started exuding a more brilliant light. The color of the azure light had also deepened, and the dragons moved in a much more frisky way than before.

This was what the Flamethorn Pill did; it strengthened the current cultivation base and purified the Qi.

Although it had not increased his strength directly, it had fortified his foundations ensuring that he was unlikely to suffer from qi deviation.

After sensing that all the energy from the pill was gone, Xue Wei took a deep breath. He placed an essence stone in his hand, calmed himself down, and started cultivating without assistive items.

He needed to get used to his body after the last pill before he could consume another pill or similar medicinal item.

After dry cultivating for a full night, Xue Wei turned his attention towards the items in front of him again.

This time, he picked a spiritual fruit. This was a very rare fruit, but Xue Wei had managed to get ahold of three of them at the auction in Golden Crow City.

One could only consume one of them. Afterward, they were useless. He had bought one for himself, Hei Gou, and Wang Xiaoyun, but since she had left him, he was left with an extra.

Unfortunately, it was useless to Bai Tianyi, so the only option was to sell it.

Keeping it seemed useless. The name of the fruit was Silverbell Fruit, because it looked exactly like a small silver bell.

This Silverbell Fruit raised the rank of a Heavenly Warrior by a full layer. However, there were certain risks with consuming it. If one's foundation was not strong enough, it would backfire, incurring qi deviation.

It was also possible for the increase in power to be below a full layer, thereby destabilizing the user's foundations, but a perfectly solid foundation would permit a smooth increase of an entire layer for Heavenly Warriors.

This was also why Xue Wei had taken the Flamethorn Pill. Although his cultivation base was steady, he would not risk it.

The days slowly went by like this. Xue Wei was in closed door cultivation, and so were Hei Gou and Bai Tianyi.

They would try to come out every now and then to get some sustenance in the form of food and liquids from the restaurant attached to the hotel, but they did this only once every week, and it was never at the same time.

In the city, the news about Xue Wei, or rather Ye Xiao, started to die out little by little. Although the citizens had been agitated in the beginning, their resentment quickly died out as they went about their everyday lives.

The three great sects noticed that the effects of their attempt to sway the common opinion was faltering. So they took matters into their own hands and started putting pressure on the Golden Chambers directly.

Never had they expected that the Golden Chambers would respond with a few words, and these words were an undisguised threat. Cause problems and the Golden Chambers would never again invite them to their shops or help them get what they need.

This threat was enough to make both the Cerulean Starlight Sect and the Argent Moon Sect step back instantly, leaving only the Crimson Sunshine Sect alone in refusing to give up on messing with Xue Wei.

Still, they were waiting for the right time to act as they did not dare to antagonize the Golden Chambers.

One month turned into two, and two turned into three. After three months, Xue Wei went downstairs and paid for another two months of rent for the three suites.

Xue Wei had at this point broken into the third layer of the Heavenly Warrior realm, but he was not satisfied.

Though he was eager to improve with his eyes set on becoming an Ordinary Knight as fast as possible, he knew that cultivation could not be forced so he always followed every breakthrough up with a period of time spent solidifying his foundations until he was ready to gorge on his cultivation resources again.

It had been four months since the time he had rented the rooms by the time Xue Wei finally emerged.

Having reached the third layer of the Heavenly Warrior realm in four months was already an excellent feat. His rate of improvement could rival the geniuses from the center of the continent.

But he had been consuming pills like candy, making sure to take many different kinds of pills to ensure that he could continue to benefit from them.

He had also used a stack of essences stones to speed the process up.

Nine days after Xue Wei came out of his closed door cultivation, Bai Tianyi stepped out of his room with a smile plastered on his face.

Of the three, Bai Tianyi had taken the least resources with him, but he was the second to emerge. He had consumed the Rainbow Pill, which had propelled his strength all to the way to the first layer of the Ordinary Knight realm. From this, it was clear that the Rainbow Pill was anything but ordinary.