"This..." Seeing that the little girl's pill actually couldn't be stopped and had easily darted through the medicinal cloud net, I couldn't help viewing her in a new light. "I really didn't expect you to have such a trick up your sleeve. You looked so delicate and soft just now, yet at this crucial moment, you're surprisingly hard to deal with. Tell me, what exactly is the principle behind this?"
Pleased with herself, Mei Yao instinctively stuck out her tongue playfully, but then remembered that she couldn't be so casual with me given our identities. She immediately grew serious and thought for a moment before saying, "That's because I circulated this pill according to the operating method of an innate spirit meridian, giving it far stronger cohesion than usual. In other words, the medicinal cloud's strength under your control couldn't break it down, so it could move freely under your control."
"What? It's actually that simple?" I was startled, but quickly shook my head. "No, that can't be right. If it were that simple, couldn't anyone just pass through the demonic qi sea at Mount Heaven-Piercing? Why go to all that trouble?"
Seeing how quickly I reacted, Mei Yao hurriedly said, "I haven't finished! The demonic qi sea's powerful decomposing force obviously isn't so easy to cross. But as long as we raise our innate strength above its level, we can do it. That strength could come from medicine, such as the enhancement provided by a Demon-Averting Pill. But most importantly, we need to cultivate an innate spirit-refining technique specifically designed to resist demonic qi."
"An innate spirit-refining technique? You know one?" I asked curiously.
"I... Of course I do! What did you think I was doing just now?" Mei Yao said hurriedly.
"You? Fine, then what's different about this