"What's this?"
Seeing the gift Uncle Zhao had thoughtfully prepared, Li Hao opened the box and took a look. Inside was an exquisite little dragon-horn comb, along with a small bottle.
Li Hao picked up the porcelain bottle and shook it. Uncle Zhao hurriedly explained, "Those are Divine Forging Pills. They strengthen the divine soul. I heard Miss Unparalleled has already reached the Spirit Wandering Realm, so they should come in handy."
"You really are thoughtful, Uncle Zhao. You've considered everything."
Li Hao could not help praising him.
He knew about Divine Forging Pills. Those in the Spirit Wandering Realm could take them, and each pill increased the range of their spirit wandering by around a hundred meters. After ten pills, a person would essentially reach the limit; they could not absorb any more.
Ten pills added up to one kilometer.
That was enough to surpass four or five years of arduous cultivation.
The only drawback was that a divine soul trained with the aid of pills differed ever so slightly from one developed through one's own cultivation. In ordinary combat, it hardly mattered and was difficult to notice, but in a contest between top experts, it could become a vulnerability.
This was what martial artists meant when they said that advancing through pills left one's foundations shaky and one's body insubstantial.
Li Hao could not absorb pills, so taking them had no effect. Even if he could, however, he would not choose to take them. After all, he had heard that Second Master and Master Feng never relied on pills. At most, they ate spiritual foods and precious medicine rich in energy to strengthen their muscles, bones, blood, and vital energy.
Neither Second Master nor Old Feng practiced body refining, and neither would devote effort to it.
Thus, using