The two immediately reached an agreement. Xu Haoyu took out his cauldron and refined the Earth Dragon Root into a batch of pills for Zi Yan—more than forty in total—which he placed in a large jade bottle before handing it over to her.
After taking the jade bottle, Zi Yan impatiently pulled out the stopper. She stretched out her fair little hand, grabbed four or five pills at once, and stuffed them straight into her mouth, chewing with a satisfied expression.
Xu Haoyu put away the cauldron, then looked at Zi Yan and said, "Alright, the pills are refined. It's time for you to take me to that valley you mentioned, isn't it?"
Hugging the jade bottle to her chest, Zi Yan walked outside as she mumbled through a mouthful of pills, "Let's go. Follow me."
The two traveled one behind the other and soon reached the outskirts of the Inner Courtyard. Zi Yan shook her shoulders, and a pair of purple wings extended from her back, carrying her body into the sky in an instant.
She was a Fifth-Order Magical Beast. Even in human form, she possessed the strength of a Dou Wang, so naturally she could condense wings and fly through the air.
Then, as though she suddenly realized something, she turned back to look at Xu Haoyu, a smug smile appearing on her face.
"Hehe, you're only a Dou Ling. Even if your strength isn't weaker than mine, if you can't fly, just slowly chase after me from behind."
Xu Haoyu truly lacked the ability to fly, but he could still travel through the air.
Under Zi Yan's astonished gaze, Xu Haoyu smiled faintly. Then he stomped on the ground, launching into the air at the instant the earth cracked beneath him. He was incredibly fast, overtaking