Li Qingyun returned to his residence.
Before entering, he flicked his wide sleeve, sending more than a dozen paper birds fluttering up to the surrounding heights.
These paper birds were Li Qingyun's eyes. If Cui Xinghuo managed to find this place, he would spot him at once.
The more spells he mastered, the more methods he naturally had at his disposal.
He returned indoors and continued meditating.
Over these past ten days, his cultivation progress had been slightly slower than he had expected. At the normal pace, he should have reached the seventh layer of Qi Refining already!
This body was indeed rather useless. At the threshold between the sixth and seventh layers of Qi Refining, he felt a touch of strain.
A mere late-stage Qi Refining hurdle had made him feel an invisible "small bottleneck."
"Ah, I hadn't wanted to touch these True Essence Pills..."
With a thought, a bottle of True Essence Pills appeared in his hand. Ten sky-blue spiritual pills lay within, radiating dense spiritual energy.
As the finest cultivation pills in the Qi Refining Realm, there was nothing better for using their instantly released currents of spiritual energy to charge at the seventh layer of Qi Refining!
When meditating, mana grew at a steady pace. It could not produce the instantaneous explosive force needed at a critical moment.
Of course, Li Qingyun's intuition told him that, with the mysterious Daoist effigy's absurd power, he could still break through the bottleneck through meditation. It would merely take some time.
And he did not want to waste time.
He first poured out one True Essence Pill.
He was somewhat reluctant to part with it. After all, each pill was worth at least ten spirit stones.
"Mmm, such potent medicinal power!"
After swallowing the True Essence Pill, Li Qingyun