This Is What Pig-Raising Style Is Like

Before Xiao Yan could get close, a large purple-black bird soared into the sky. It stared at Xiao Yan for a long while before finally recognizing him and lowering its head.

"Good grief, it's only been half a year, and you've already broken through to the third tier!"

Xiao Yan jumped onto Xiao Lan's head and let it carry him into Little Medicine Valley.

Xiao Lan had clearly refined the Purple Cloud Wings of the Black Flame Purple Cloud Sculpture, allowing it to break through again in just half a year and reach the third tier.

He wondered what level Xiao Yi Xian had reached now. Having obtained the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture and learned that he possessed the Calamity Poison Body, if Xiao Yi Xian had cultivated by consuming poison, he was probably at least a Dou Shi by now.

After Xiao Yan entered Little Medicine Valley, Xiao Lan anxiously nudged him, using its big head to point at a newly built little wooden house in the valley.

"Something happened to Xiao Yi Xian?"

Xiao Yan hurried into the wooden house and found it filled with a strange fragrance. Xiao Yi Xian had collapsed on the bed, and his aura had shockingly reached the level of a Five-star Dou Grandmaster.

"Damn, how much poison has this guy been swallowing over the past six months?"

Xiao Yan wrapped his entire body in mutated Beast Flame and found the source of the strange fragrance inside the house: an incense stick in a burner that was nearly burned out.

He pinched out the poisonous incense, opened the doors and windows to disperse all the scent from the room, then fed Xiao Yi Xian an antidote pill. Only then did he let out a sigh of relief.

A few minutes later, Xiao Yi Xian saw a figure lying on the floor.

(`"∠)_

"Xiao Yan?!"

By the time Xiao Yan regained consciousness, it was already dusk.

Xiao Yan curled up on the bed, pulling the little blanket tighter around himself as he felt chilled to the bone.

"What happened?" Xiao Yan asked, his face full of confusion.

"You're awake? Come, have something to eat first!"

Xiao Yi Xian brought over a bowl of mushroom soup, his face brimming with smiles.

Xiao Yan had no idea what was going on. The scene before him somehow felt familiar, but trusting Xiao Yi Xian, he accepted the mushroom soup and drained it in one gulp.

"Why are these mushrooms such a vivid col—"

That was Xiao Yan's last thought before passing out for the second time.

"Because they're poisonous mushrooms~" Xiao Yi Xian smiled even more happily, and all the frustration he had accumulated over the past six months vanished at once.

That poisonous incense had been concocted by Xiao Yi Xian himself. There was no antidote for it; one could only fight poison with poison. It would render someone unconscious, stimulate their body's potential, then force them to sweat out the poison through a fever.

After reading the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture's description of the Calamity Poison Body, Xiao Yi Xian had understood his own potential. He had also believed that Xiao Yan wanted him to quickly reach Dou Zong or even Dou Zun by consuming poison.

But after seeing Xiao Yan's reaction today, Xiao Yi Xian felt that he might have misunderstood something.

Xiao Yi Xian had originally resigned himself to his fate, numbly swallowing poison every day with only Xiao Lan for company. Yet today, he felt Xiao Yan's concern, which relaxed him so much that he could not stop smiling.

The next day, Xiao Yan trembled as he curled up beneath the blanket, exposing only half his head. He muttered, "Tell me the truth. How many times have you passed out in the last six months?"

"Only a dozen or so times, I think? I can't remember."

"A dozen times! Are you trying to die?!"

"It's not that serious..."

"Shut up. Until you break through to Dou King, you're not allowed to eat any more poison. Got it?"

"...Got it!"

Xiao Yi Xian puffed out his cheeks and filled a huge bowl with brightly colored mushroom soup for Xiao Yan. He watched Xiao Yan gulp it down in one go before (`"∠)_

Only then did Xiao Yi Xian give a soft snort and quietly wipe the sweat from Xiao Yan's brow.

It took Xiao Yan a full three days to recover from the aftereffects, leaving Xiao Yi Xian utterly astonished.

In his words, even a Da Dou Shi would need at least a week to purge the remaining poison completely.

Yet Xiao Yan, with merely Dou Shi cultivation, recovered in three days. His physique could only be called extraordinary.

Xiao Yan was extremely proud of this. He then gave the remaining two Bone Spirit Fate Fruits to Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Lan for them to refine, while he began his pleasant life of alchemy—

Since Xiao Yan had already thrown away his own medicine cauldron and had none on hand, he could only temporarily use Old Yao's Black Demon Cauldron.

Using this top-tier medicine cauldron, ranked eighth on the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking, to refine Third Grade Pills felt like flying. It was unbelievably satisfying.

Every morning, Xiao Yan rode Xiao Lan out of Little Medicine Valley to search the basin for Medicinal Herbs and hunt Magical Beasts. In the afternoon, he refined Pills for Xiao Lan according to the manuals on raising Magical Beasts. At night, he cultivated Dou Qi. Every day was incredibly fulfilling.

A month passed. Xiao Yan not only successfully broke through to Eight Star Dou Shi and became a Third Grade Alchemist, but also found high-grade medicinal herbs such as Blood Lotus Essence and Azure Wood Immortal Vine.

Xiao Yan then tried refining Fourth Grade Pills. First was Qi Gathering Powder. There was no need to worry about this popular product failing to sell, and its ingredients were relatively simple.

Next, Xiao Yan also attempted to refine Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pills. In the end, he successfully produced four Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pills from seventeen sets of ingredients and gave them to Xiao Yi Xian.

After consuming the Bone Spirit Fate Fruit, Xiao Yi Xian had already broken through to Seven-star Dou Grandmaster. Taking two Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pills would be enough for him to advance from Seven-star Dou Grandmaster to Nine-star Dou Grandmaster.

As for the extra two, they naturally went to Xiao Lan—after all, Xiao Lan was now a third-tier Magical Beast, equivalent to a human Da Dou Shi.

Seeing that both Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Lan had reached the brink of a breakthrough, Xiao Yan began focusing on Azure Spirit Pills again.

A One-patterned Azure Spirit Pill could raise a Da Dou Shi by one star. A Two-patterned Azure Spirit Pill had a chance to raise them by two stars, while a Three-patterned Azure Spirit Pill had a chance to raise them by three stars. However, Three-patterned Azure Spirit Pills could be used to break through to Dou Ling, or raise a Dou Ling expert by one or two stars.

Xiao Yan possessed no fewer than five Beast Flames and one Fake Bone Spirit Cold Flame, even surpassing the requirements for refining Three-patterned Azure Spirit Pills.

Through Xiao Yan's tireless efforts, one man and one beast first reached their peaks with One-patterned Azure Spirit Pills, then successfully broke through after taking Three-patterned Azure Spirit Pills.

Xiao Yi Xian was deeply shaken by this. He had originally planned to travel to the Chuyun Empire to seek poisons and poison-type Dou Techniques to increase his strength. Now, he completely abandoned that backward idea and decided to stay by Xiao Yan's side, cling to him, and eat pills.

After breaking through to Dou Ling, Xiao Yi Xian felt that he needed battle to temper his Dou Qi. So he simply took Xiao Lan on a trip to Qingshan Town, settling old grudges, repaying old debts, and cutting the weeds by the roots while dealing with lingering problems from the past.

The people of Qingshan Town were all dumbfounded—where had this Dou Ling expert come from? What had Qingshan Town done? How had they provoked such a terrifying powerhouse?

After looting the place, Xiao Yi Xian failed to find anything worthwhile. Medicinal Herbs like those were everywhere in the basin, there was not even a single high-grade Magical Core, and the highest-ranked Dou Techniques and cultivation methods were merely Xuan Tier Low—barely worthy of being tossed into a Storage Ring to gather dust.

Thus, Xiao Yi Xian's greatest gain was replenishing some daily necessities unavailable in the Beast Mountain Range, such as pots, bowls, ladles, firewood, rice, oil, salt, and changes of clothes.

There was no helping it. After staying beside Xiao Yan for so long, his strength had soared, and his horizons had risen with it. Xiao Yi Xian truly could not spare a glance for the Rags in Qingshan Town.