Fighter Pill

Chu Yang had always been a decisive person. Now that he was in a special environment, he feared that if his strength was lacking, a single sneak attack could doom him beyond recovery.

He was practically seeing enemies in every bush and tree.

Not only had he hurried to buy a demon puppet, but he was also rushing to raise his own strength.

He had forcibly used Strength Advancement Pills to raise himself to the peak of Dou Qi Strength, yet still found it insufficient. Unable to patiently wait for cultivation to condense a qi vortex, he was eager to cross the mountain ridge of becoming a Fighter.

Chu Yang immediately refined a Qi Gathering Pill for himself.

And that very night, he secretly broke through to become a one-star Fighter.

The reason it was secret was that he had not told anyone else in the Xiao family, including Keke and Yanyan, the two personal maidservants assigned by the Xiao family to serve him.

After breaking through to Fighter, Chu Yang immediately wanted to rush onward and become a Dou Master. He was practically like a snake trying to swallow an elephant, never satisfied with what he had.

From one to nine levels of Dou Qi Strength, Strength Advancement Pills could allow people to level up quickly.

As for the threshold between nine levels of Dou Qi Strength and Fighter, Qi Gathering Powder could help people cross it with ease. Now that there was the miraculous Qi Gathering Pill, it could instantly allow someone at the ninth level of Dou Qi Strength to leap into the Fighter stage.

This time, Chu Yang had only just used up his Qi Gathering Pills. Otherwise, he would not have needed to swallow those ordinary Strength Advancement Pills again.

Now that he was going from Fighter to Dou Master, Strength Advancement Pills and even Qi Gathering Pills were clearly outdated for his current stage. They were like a hero with nowhere to use his skills.

What he needed next was a pill that could take him from Fighter to Dou Master!

As for pills that could help one level up quickly from Fighter to Dou Master, Chu Yang could not find any as ordinary as Strength Advancement Pills or Qi Gathering Pills.

Of course, whether it was advancement between one-star and nine-star Fighters or breaking through the bottleneck from a nine-star Fighter to a Dou Master, there were still certain pills on the Dou Qi Continent that could provide assistance.

This was the wonder of pills, and also why alchemists held such lofty status on the Dou Qi Continent.

But Chu Yang wanted to refine pills even more advanced than those made by ordinary alchemists.

Because he possessed the Medicine Emperor's high-level medicinal tome.

It allowed him to create miracles, just as he had refined the Qi Gathering Pill, a pill even more advanced than the Qi Gathering Powder refined by the famed alchemist Gu He.

Chu Yang wanted to refine a pill of his own, like the Strength Advancement Pill and Qi Gathering Pill, that could help one-star Fighters advance to nine-star Fighters.

He immediately began researching it.

After thinking hard as though he had forgotten to eat and sleep, he actually came up with a type of pill. Though he had only been able to devise it by relying on the Medicine Emperor's basic introductory alchemy techniques, at least he had not spent those precious card points, which were even more expensive than Gold Coins, to buy spiritual herbs.

Chu Yang named the pill he had developed the Fighter Pill.

The Fighter Pill's effects were similar to those of the Strength Advancement Pill—except the Strength Advancement Pill served those in the Dou Qi Strength stage, while the Fighter Pill served one-star to eight-star Fighters.

By the same logic, one Fighter Pill could raise a one-star Fighter to a two-star Fighter, a two-star Fighter to a three-star Fighter, and so on, all the way until an eight-star Fighter became a nine-star Fighter. However, the Fighter Pill was useless for crossing the threshold from nine-star Fighter to Dou Master.

To advance a nine-star Fighter to Dou Master, a different pill would be needed. Chu Yang would have to refine a pill similar to the Qi Gathering Pill, one that helped those at the Dou Qi Strength stage advance to Fighter, except this one would help nine-star Fighters advance to Dou Masters.

For now, Chu Yang had yet to develop it.

But he was not in a hurry. He understood that one had to eat one bite at a time.

Compared to Xiao Yan and everyone else, he was already flying! Compared to him, Xiao Yan was merely walking, and there were plenty of people crawling along the path of cultivation like snails.

"Let me test the power of this Fighter Pill on myself first!" Chu Yang could not help saying.

That night, he refined the first Fighter Pill, using more Medicinal Ingredients than a Strength Advancement Pill required.

After the Fighter Pill entered his stomach, Chu Yang immediately felt an unusual reaction, slightly stronger than the sensation he experienced when taking a Strength Advancement Pill.

I leveled up?

As soon as the thought crossed Chu Yang's mind, he opened the system interface and saw that his cultivation had become that of a two-star Fighter.

After considering it carefully, he found it only natural. This was, after all, the Medicine Emperor's overwhelmingly powerful formula! Although the quality of the Fighter Pill he had refined for the first time was not particularly good, its medicinal effect was undoubtedly effective.

After Chu Yang refined the Fighter Pill, Xiao Zhan and the Great Elder of the Xiao family came to see him again.

Their noses were as sharp as foxes'. Although Chu Yang had deliberately concealed some things, they seemed able to catch certain clues.

In truth, Chu Yang had never intended to hide the newly developed Fighter Pill from them.

He had planned to use the Fighter Pill to divide up some profits with them and earn himself more money.

The Fighter Pill's price would naturally be higher than that of the Strength Advancement Pill.

Chu Yang was now connected to both the Xiao family and the Nalan family, and he could also expand his business to the Mier Auction House.

When Xiao Zhan and the Great Elder heard that Chu Yang had developed another pill, they were naturally overjoyed.

Chu Yang did not put on airs or act coy with them. He straightforwardly stated that he would refine a batch of Fighter Pills for them next.

At the same time, the Nalan family had also secretly contacted Chu Yang.

Both families offered Chu Yang quite considerable shares of the profits.

Chu Yang naturally intended to make a fortune from both families first.

For the moment, he did not know whether the Xiao family knew about his secret dealings with the Nalan family. He thought they might know a little, but because they had certain misgivings about him, they deliberately pretended to be deaf and mute.

Chu Yang was clear in his heart: as long as the Xiao family had not fallen out with him, he would temporarily maintain things as they were. For now, he had no intention of leaving the Xiao family for the Nalan family either.

And so, several days passed.

Chu Yang went from being clumsy at refining Fighter Pills to becoming skilled and proficient, his enthusiasm growing ever fiercer.

One night, he left the Xiao family carrying a batch of Fighter Pills, intending to secretly deliver them to the Nalan family.

After avoiding any possible spies the Xiao family might have sent to follow him, Chu Yang met up in a relatively remote place with the person who had come to collect the pills.

However, seeing the other party's attire for this coded meeting, Chu Yang was somewhat surprised.

This time, the person who had come to collect the Fighter Pills was neither Nalan Bi himself nor Nalan Bi's son.

It was a stranger wrapped in a large cloak. In the darkness of night, Chu Yang could not clearly see his true face.

Though Chu Yang had some doubts, the person sent by the Nalan family showed a token bearing the Nalan family's mark and spoke the secret phrases he and Nalan Bi had agreed upon. He had no reason to doubt him.

Besides, Chu Yang only cared about getting the money. He would not fuss over anything else. Whether it was the Xiao family or the Nalan family, both had always been generous in dealing with him.