Weighing the Pros and Cons

After Yunxi activated the Flying Boat's protective barrier and cranked its defenses to the maximum, she swiftly embedded nine top-grade spirit stones into the control formation disk, set the flight direction, then lay flat on her back and instructed Lili beside her to feed her all manner of restorative and healing potions.

Dian Dian anxiously circled Yunxi, rummaging through his little treasury for any Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures suitable for her current condition. Cong Shan enlarged himself and quietly stood guard beside Yunxi, watching Lili bustle about.

Lili kept muttering under his breath:

"Your Excellency, you were far too reckless this time. How could you use a secret technique that meant perishing together? You're about to break through to the Integrated Body Middle Stage. Why compete with someone like that? It wasn't worth it at all."

Yunxi swallowed the healing and restorative potions, slowly sensing their effects take hold. The pain in her Dantian eased somewhat, and the Nascent Soul within it, which had previously been listless, gradually regained its vigor. Wrapped within the Seven-Colored Lotus, her entire Dantian began storing spiritual power anew.

Only after the metallic sweetness in her throat had completely faded did Yunxi slowly sit up and cross her legs to meditate. To restore herself as quickly as possible, she held a high-grade Spiritual Vein she had acquired earlier in her hand and circulated her cultivation technique to replenish what she had expended.

This was also Zhusheng's first time seeing his master fight someone, and only then did he realize how dangerous the Cultivation Realm was. That male cultivator had gone from arrogance at the start to compromise in the end entirely because his master was strong enough to make him clearly understand that he had no ability to take her away—and might even be