Gu He had no idea that Zi Yan had already unified Dragon Island. With Elder Shen Nong and the Great Elder's help, Gu He spent three months refining ten Nine-turn Profound Pills. The natural energy within tens of thousands of miles of the Medicine Realm had nearly been drained dry, and under such unchecked extraction, the Medicine Realm's spatial structure had begun to grow unstable.
Gu He only stopped refining pills when Xuan Kongzi came to remind the three of them that the Yao Clan's Medicine Canon would begin in a little over a month.
He first gave Elder Shen Nong and the Great Elder a Ninth-grade Profound Pill each, as payment for helping him draw in the natural energy of the outside world and urging the Flame of Life to produce medicinal ingredients over such a long period.
Elder Shen Nong and the Great Elder also knew how many Profound Pills Gu He had refined over the past few months. They did not stand on ceremony and accepted the pills.
After giving away the pills, Gu He left the Medicine Realm and returned to his own courtyard. He first gave Caiyi a Ninth-grade Profound Pill and helped her consume it. Under the pill's medicinal power, Caiyi's early Four-Star Dou Sheng cultivation broke through the initial stage almost in the blink of an eye, then entered the late stage shortly afterward.
Three days later, with his assistance, Caiyi completely refined the Ninth-grade Profound Pill. Her strength had reached the middle stage of Five-Star Dou Sheng. With her current cultivation, coupled with the several dozen Dou Saint-level remnant souls of the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python on her arms, Caiyi's strength was likely comparable to that of an ordinary peak Five-Star Dou Sheng.
After Caiyi had fully absorbed the medicinal power, Gu