Wanting to Increase His Strength Quickly

"Lion King, cover our retreat. I'm leaving first!"

As soon as the Purple Crystal Lion Wing King arrived, Chu Yang spread his Azure Cloud Wings and soared into the sky, leaving Xun'er staring helplessly.

Although Xiao Yan's body, controlled by Old Yao, could pursue him, the Purple Crystal Lion Wing King, whose aura was extraordinarily powerful, blocked their way.

Old Yao had a sharp eye. Although he did not understand at first why Chu Yang called this burly man "Lion King," once the battle began, he gradually sensed that something was off about him.

When Old Yao ignited the eerie, pale white Bone Spirit Cold Flame, the Purple Crystal Lion Wing King was actually able to recognize it—

"Is that a Heavenly Flame?"

Although the Purple Crystal Lion Wing King cultivated fire-attributed Dou Qi as well, it could clearly feel that the flames it produced were vastly inferior to its opponent's. Only a king among flames like a Heavenly Flame could make it feel such unease.

Moreover, the Purple Crystal Lion Wing King had consumed Chu Yang's Transformation Pill. Its strength had now almost broken through to the sixth tier, making it a seventh-tier magical beast comparable to a human Dou Zong. Though its cultivation was still somewhat lacking, it was definitely equivalent to a peak Dou Huang among humans.

It now surpassed Yun Yun and was also stronger than Old Yao, who only had a soul body remaining and whose strength had fallen to roughly the Dou Huang level.

It was only because Old Yao possessed far richer combat experience than the Purple Crystal Lion Wing King, as well as the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, that he could barely hold his own for the time being.

However, later on, even with Xun'er joining the fight, the three of them, including Xiao Yan, still could not defeat the Purple Crystal Lion Wing King.

Fortunately, since the Purple Crystal Lion Wing King was currently in a human city and feared that too much commotion would draw more human experts, it had no desire to prolong the battle. Once it saw that Chu Yang had vanished, it withdrew. If this had been the Monster Mountain Range, it would certainly have gone on a killing spree.

The Purple Crystal Lion Wing King did not want to alert too many people, but neither did Old Yao and the others.

Thus, when the Purple Crystal Lion Wing King finally retreated, Old Yao and the other two did not pursue it and hurriedly left the battlefield as well.

For a time, both sides withdrew completely.

Although their fight had seemed like a brief clash and ended quickly, battles at their level had never occurred before in Wutan City.

For a long time, the strongest experts visible in this small place called Wutan City had only been Da Dou Shi. Not even a Dou Ling had ever appeared.

Yet the battle between the Purple Crystal Lion Wing King and Old Yao had already been a Dou Huang-level battle.

Therefore, even though they had tried their best to keep the disturbances to a minimum, many people were still alerted.

However, by the time some capable figures arrived, there was nothing left to see.

Chu Yang quickly flew to the roof of the Xiao Family residence. After confirming that Xiao Zhan and the others had not noticed him, he immediately landed in a secluded spot, put away his wings, and removed his face covering.

Chu Yang was sure that if anyone had accidentally seen him in the night sky before, they had either assumed he was a large bird or thought they had seen a ghost.

After returning to the small courtyard the Xiao Family had given him, Chu Yang did his best to appear calm and composed. Next, he could not allow Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and Old Yao, who had also returned to the Xiao Family, to detect even the slightest abnormality from him.

Over the following days, Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and Old Yao seemed to harbor no suspicion toward Chu Yang at all. At least, Chu Yang could not sense even a trace of doubt from them.

That was for the best.

The events of that night were like a dream, leaving no trace once it passed. Chu Yang had not personally killed Liu Xi, but he did not find that regrettable. Liu Xi was dead anyway, so he had vented his earlier anger.

Liu Xi had died at Xiao Yan's hands—or, more precisely, at Old Yao's hands. Chu Yang did not care about that either.

Without Liu Xi, the Jialie Family would only work harder to win Chu Yang over.

But Chu Yang now felt that making money was no longer his most important concern. What mattered more was increasing his own strength.

If the Purple Crystal Lion Wing King had not helped him a few nights ago, Chu Yang reckoned that he might even have died at Old Yao's hands.

That was far too frightening!

After taking the Dou Qi Pill, Chu Yang's current strength had reached that of a five-star Dou Qi practitioner. Once he crossed another threshold, he would become a Dou Shi.

The Dou Qi Pill had become useless at this point. It could not help Chu Yang break through to the next rank. He needed to refine an Advancement Pill.

He named the pill that could help a five-star Dou Qi practitioner advance to Dou Shi the Advancement Pill.

Whether it was the Advancement Pill, the Strength Advancement Pill, the Dou Qi Pill, or the Qi Gathering Pill, including the higher-grade pills he would refine in the future, they all belonged to Chu Yang. He would name them himself.

Chu Yang had now confirmed that the pills he refined through the Medicine Emperor's Art were generally much more effective than those refined by the alchemists of the current Dou Qi Continent. For example, the Qi Gathering Pill was far superior to the Qi Gathering Powder despite having the same properties.

Moreover, through information from the system, Chu Yang had received a huge additional surprise: normally, the pills of the current Dou Qi Continent had the side effect of forcing rapid growth for those in the early stages of Dou Qi cultivation. In other words, they harmed future cultivation. But the pills Chu Yang refined through the system's Medicine Emperor's Art to help early-stage cultivators rapidly improve did not have such side effects.

Chu Yang had also confirmed this through Huan Huan!

At present, people on the Dou Qi Continent who encountered his pills might still have some doubts. But once everyone understood how pure their effects were, Chu Yang could only imagine whether they would go mad fighting for them. Some might even sell for astronomical prices. Of course, by then, he might no longer be interested in refining such low-grade pills.

Now, families such as the Xiao Family and the Jialie Family, along with some bidders connected to Mier Auction House, and many others seeking to raise their entire family's strength, did not have cultivation conditions like Xiao Yan's. Thus, although many people knew that relying on pills early on was detrimental to later cultivation, they still pressed forward without hesitation. They simply could not cultivate slowly and methodically, then wait patiently.

For a moment, Chu Yang could not help imagining that if Xiao Yan insisted on competing with him in the future, and came to understand that no matter how hard he tried, he could not refine pills as pure as Chu Yang's—pills that could forcefully raise the strength of early-stage Dou Qi cultivators without causing the later cultivation side effects associated with ordinary Dou Qi Continent pills—would Xiao Yan cry?

But Chu Yang had no time to care about that now.

He wanted to quickly develop his own Advancement Pill so that he could advance as soon as possible.

Chu Yang began researching the Advancement Pill.

This time, he studied it with great effort. Without spending Check-in Points to buy inspiration, he actually managed to work out a formula capable of refining the Advancement Pill.