"What a waste of such a handsome face!"
"In the end, he's just a lowlife easily blinded by beauty..."
"Someone like him deserves to be a sacrifice!"
The woman thought this to herself, but her eyes remained smiling. Her face was as radiant as peach blossoms in spring as she watched Li Yun's every move.
Li Yun barely hesitated. Without a word, he swallowed the Flame-Burning Pill.
The Pills entered his stomach.
Sure enough, Li Yun quickly felt a strange flame appear in his belly. It grew fierce and spread from the inside out.
Excruciating pain followed.
Li Yun's face paled slightly.
Worse still, as the flames rose, desires surged through his mind.
With a breathtakingly beautiful, scantily dressed woman standing right in front of him, it was as if a deadly poison were stoking those desires.
Only then did Li Yun understand why the woman was dressed like that for a mere assessment of his physique.
It was deliberate. Her appearance was meant to heighten the Flame-Burning Pill's effect.
But Li Yun kept his realization to himself.
He deliberately pretended to struggle desperately against the pain brought on by the Flame-Scorching Pill, his eyes turning bloodshot. In secret, he circulated his King Grade True Qi, along with his Five Elements Sovereign Talent and Yin-Yang Talent...
As soon as his King Grade True Qi stirred, the Yin-Yang Five Elements moved together.
The pill's effects, including the flames that did not actually exist, were swiftly suppressed. The pain vanished on the spot, and the desires in his mind were swept away.
But Li Yun soon discovered that the Flame-Burning Pill also seemed to contain another, subtler medicinal force. It was slowly seeping toward his brain.
That force was so faint it was nearly imperceptible, and its passage caused his body no