"You're alone now, so what can you do? Could you really kill him? Your cultivation is even lower than mine! Besides, the Pill Dao Realm is at least two or three times stronger than the late stage!"
"If you don't assassinate him, don't you want the gourd anymore?" I did not argue with her. At the early stage, I indeed had no absolute confidence in killing him, since I did not know the true strength of that cultivator in the Pill Dao Realm. So for now, it would be best if I could buy myself some time—at least enough to cultivate to the late stage.
Of course, that breathing room might not exist anymore.
"I want to live even more." Fox Xia snorted, clearly sulking because I had given up on the gourd and still had to run.
We raced cautiously through the forest. After running for over an hour, we still did not see that cultivator pursuing us, and I let out a sigh of relief. Fox Xia knew I was about to stop, so she pushed herself away from me and jumped down.
After canceling Wood-Dance, I was not even breathing hard. The consumption had not been great, so I took out some pill crystals and began recovering. Their energy was extremely abundant, but as my cultivation grew, they could no longer sustain my absorption for long. Before long, they had been reduced to impurities.
Fox Xia stared in astonishment as I absorbed the energy from the pill crystals, her mouth hanging open. "You actually use cinnabar to cultivate and recover!? Aren't you afraid your attributes will become disordered and your body will explode?"
"Are you worried about me?" I asked with a smile.
"I'm not worried about you at all! I'm just afraid that if you die,