Strength Advancement Pill

That demon puppet's current strength was that of a four-star Dou Master?

Chu Yang muttered to himself.

Four-star Dou Master! Its current strength was equivalent to that of a four-star Dou Master.

To be honest, Chu Yang was somewhat disappointed.

However, when he thought of Xun'er, who was currently passing through the Xiao family, the protection of the secrets behind her, and Old Yao... Chu Yang no longer felt so certain.

"You can slowly feed it."

It was Huan Huan's voice!

Chu Yang was nearly startled again.

Huan Huan really was... becoming more and more like a close friend to him.

Feeding the demon puppet could increase its strength! So demon puppets did not cultivate like humans did, relying on their own efforts.

"The simplest way is to give it pills!" Huan Huan added.

Chu Yang immediately thought of how the children of wealthy families cultivated.

Indeed, no matter what world it was, rich people and poor people had different equipment, and they started from different lines.

Chu Yang then remembered that the demon puppet was not human. Its cultivation method was simply to gorge itself on pills, and it would not suffer from the same cultivation bottlenecks as humans.

The only problem now was that pills cost money!

"I can't afford to raise it for now?" Chu Yang could not help muttering to himself.

"Hee!" Huan Huan suddenly laughed. "Then you need to work hard and make money... I'm leaving now."

Work hard to make money, work hard to complete missions for Lucky Draws and check-in points?

Setting that aside, Chu Yang carefully considered Huan Huan's final words—

"I'm leaving now." What did that mean? Huan Huan could leave too? Where was she going? Could it be that she had grown up...

Chu Yang suddenly thought of contracts. Like in certain fantasy novels, those alien artificial intelligences that resembled flying saucers seemed to have some kind of contractual connection with their masters, able to transform into metal lifeforms and become spacecraft.

However, Chu Yang also felt that his current strength was still far too weak. He had no way to investigate Huan Huan's secrets yet.

Perhaps there was still a vast world within the system in his mind. But for now, he should first deal with the demon puppet by his side!

On one hand, Chu Yang did not want others to know that he possessed the demon puppet, this private trump card. On the other, he feared the demon puppet would frighten Keke and Yanyan, the little girls of the Xiao family, or even the children in the Xiao family.

Therefore, after coming out, Chu Yang placed the demon puppet into a Storage Ring he had purchased. A Storage Ring could not hold living people, but the demon puppet was not human after all.

This Storage Ring was relatively ordinary. Chu Yang had only spent a little over one hundred thousand Gold Coins purchasing it from Ya Fei. Once he earned more money, he planned to get a higher-grade one.

Since he would be living on the Dou Qi Continent from now on, he understood that he would carry more and more things with him. He needed a Storage Ring with greater storage space.

After hiding the demon puppet in the Storage Ring, Chu Yang set it aside for the time being. He needed to quickly refine some Strength Advancement Pills for the Xiao family.

At the same time, he had to spend more time studying the Medicine Emperor's beginner alchemy techniques.

Now, when he refined pills, he no longer needed to restrict himself to making money through the Xiao family or the Miel Auction House.

More importantly, he needed them himself. And now, he had gained a demon puppet follower.

From now on, he also had to refine pills that were useful to both himself and the demon puppet.

But for the moment, he first needed to make some Strength Advancement Pills for the Xiao family.

Chu Yang began refining the Strength Advancement Pills.

He had not prepared any pill furnace. After transmigrating and becoming an alchemist, he naturally had nothing prepared at the beginning.

It was only when he started learning to refine pills himself that he thought of a pill furnace. Fortunately, the Xiao family brought out the best pill furnace they had.

Chu Yang knew that pill furnaces came in good, bad, low, and high grades.

Although the best pill furnace the Xiao family could produce in this small place was not high-grade, it was sufficient for the low-grade pills Chu Yang was currently refining.

Strength Advancement Pills were much simpler to refine than Qi Gathering Pills, and the required Medicinal Ingredients were not complicated. The Xiao family's small stockpile of medicinal herbs could even produce them.

For the time being, though, Chu Yang did not intend to let them produce the pills themselves. He knew that one had to eat one bite at a time, or problems might arise.

After refining several Strength Advancement Pills without damaging a single pill furnace, just as everyone was celebrating how smooth his first attempt at refining this pill had been, Keke knocked on the door from outside and reported that the Family Head and the Great Elder had arrived. They were waiting outside and asked whether it was convenient for Chu Yang to meet them.

Chu Yang understood that Xiao Zhan and the Great Elder had instructed this. Otherwise, they would not have casually disturbed Chu Yang while he was refining pills, which was why Keke had come to ask first.

A warmth rose in Chu Yang's heart. The Xiao family truly respected him.

Now that he had several Strength Advancement Pills, Chu Yang felt that he could go meet Xiao Zhan and the Great Elder. He wanted to test the pills on the spot.

With the brilliant success of the Qi Gathering Pills before this, Chu Yang estimated that these Strength Advancement Pills would not disappoint him.

After all, he had refined them according to the Medicine Emperor's experience. Moreover, they were merely the simplest low-grade pills. Though he was still a novice, if he could not even refine these, how could he talk about refining higher-grade pills in the future?

The Strength Advancement Pill was the simplest pill introduced in the Medicine Emperor's beginner alchemy techniques.

Although the quality and appearance of this first batch had not reached that grade's standard, Chu Yang believed they were still passable. According to the descriptions in the Medicine Emperor's beginner alchemy techniques, he was confident that these Strength Advancement Pills could help those who cultivated Dou Qi increase their cultivation level.

Thus, Chu Yang brought the several Strength Advancement Pills he had refined outside to meet Xiao Zhan and the Great Elder.

As for what had happened after Nalan Yanran annulled the engagement, whether it had proceeded just like the original story, Chu Yang did not know. In any case, as long as he had completed his mission and received his reward, he was satisfied.

Since Xiao Zhan and the Great Elder did not mention it, he would not ask.

He knew that although Xiao Zhan and the Great Elder had ostensibly come to see him, they were really here for the Strength Advancement Pills.

A joyous occasion brightened Chu Yang's spirits. He was extremely satisfied with the system's reward this time, so he did not keep them in suspense and immediately showed Xiao Zhan and the others the several Strength Advancement Pills he had refined.

The Strength Advancement Pills were smaller than the Qi Gathering Pills, but when they saw the exquisite, translucent pills that resembled tiny pearls, Xiao Zhan and the Great Elder immediately beamed with joy.

It was as though they had instantly forgotten the humiliation that Nalan Yanran and the Misty Cloud Sect had inflicted upon the Xiao family.

"So these are Strength Advancement Pills!"

Xiao Zhan took the jade plate holding the pills from Chu Yang. For a moment, he could not bear to put it down.

The Great Elder was not to be outdone. He quickly snatched the jade plate holding the pills and refused to let go.

Chu Yang had refined four Strength Advancement Pills this time.

What came next was the question of how the Xiao family would distribute these four Strength Advancement Pills among those whose cultivation and Dou Qi were strongest.