After a while, Yang Heng finally calmed his excitement, his expression returning to peace.
In a flash, Yang Heng arrived before Shopkeeper Chen's corpse.
His eyes burned as he scrutinized the body from head to toe, as though admiring an unparalleled beauty bathing.
Yang Heng had just noticed that after Shopkeeper Chen stopped chasing him, he had taken a jade bottle from his robes and poured out a pill the size of a broad bean.
If Yang Heng's guess was correct, that had to be a medicinal pill!
Medicinal pills were immensely useful to martial artists. They could raise one's cultivation, heal injuries, and it was said that some pills could even enhance a martial artist's Mental Energy and aid them in sudden enlightenment.
From the Blood Strengthening Realm onward, if Yang Heng wanted to raise his cultivation at breakneck speed, medicinal pills were indispensable and of utmost importance.
If he relied solely on ordinary meat to accumulate qi and blood and increase his cultivation, who knew whether he would reach the middle stage of the Blood Strengthening Realm before the monkeys came around.
Yang Heng's face was flushed red with excitement. He hoped Shopkeeper Chen's corpse carried pills that could improve cultivation.
After carefully searching him, Yang Heng found two jade bottles containing pills and nothing else.
One jade bottle contained three yellow pills, while the other held two dark-red pills. The one Shopkeeper Chen had swallowed earlier was a red pill.
Yang Heng recognized neither type and did not know their effects—whether they were pills for raising cultivation, pills with detoxifying properties, or Healing Pills.
However, based on Shopkeeper Chen's actions just now, Yang Heng concluded that the red pills should replenish qi and blood. After all, Shopkeeper Chen had taken one when his qi and blood were