After some thought, Xu Chunniang regretfully abandoned the idea.
Not every Demon King had offspring.
Besides, a Demon King's children generally lived deep within the royal palace. Even if she wanted to make a move, she would have no opportunity.
After tossing the corpses of the three into the pill furnace, Xu Chunniang summoned Netherflame and began refining them with single-minded focus.
As for the demonic materials and demonic crystals, she put them away.
To ensure nothing could go wrong, she had used quite a few precious materials when setting up the formation. These demonic materials could just make up for some of her losses.
As for the use of demonic crystals, that went without saying.
Although low-grade demonic crystals were useless to her now, mid-grade demonic crystals could not only be used directly for cultivation, but could also rapidly replenish demonic qi.
Unfortunately, most of what she had found in the three men's storage spaces were low-grade demonic crystals. There were only forty or fifty mid-grade ones—better than nothing.
The higher the cultivation these demonic cultivators had possessed in life, the slower they were to refine.
It took Xu Chunniang a full two months to completely refine the three corpses, converting them into pure demonic qi and absorbing it into her body.
As for the impurities and turbid filth that even Netherflame could not refine, she expelled them.
One day, two months later, Xu Chunniang opened her eyes, and a dim gleam flashed through them.
She rose to her feet and felt the surging demonic qi beneath her skin, yet she was somewhat dissatisfied.
After refining three late Void Refining stage demonic cultivators, she still had not broken through to the mid Void Refining stage.
It seemed that as her cultivation rose, the amount of demonic qi required for