After explaining the effects of the two pills, Yao Lao smiled at Lin Yan and asked, "Young friend, do you understand now why I didn't want you to rush into cultivation?"
Lin Yan's eyes immediately lit up.
Once again, he realized how good it was to have Yao Lao by his side.
Yao Lao didn't just help him with cultivation and keep him safe.
He could even make Lin Yan's body incredibly strong.
With Yao Lao around, Lin Yan didn't have to worry about hidden problems developing in his body at all!
Yao Lao had always been cautious and thorough, good at nipping every potential problem in the bud!
At that moment, only one word came to Lin Yan's mind.
Fantastic!
"Senior Yao, do you know what saying just came to mind?"
With that, Lin Yan quickly turned to look at Yao Lao.
Yao Lao looked at him curiously. "Let's hear it, young friend."
Lin Yan grinned. "An old man in the family is a treasure!"
"Having you by my side has helped me avoid who knows how many dangers!"
Yao Lao burst out laughing. "Young friend, you've got quite the silver tongue! You're the real treasure here, making this old man so happy!"
Lin Yan soon headed to the Medicine Hall in Qingyang Town to buy some herbs.
On the way, he unexpectedly ran into Wu Yun of the Mad Blade Martial Hall.
This time, Wu Yun was even more respectful toward him than before.
After all, he had seen Lin Yan's strength with his own eyes. Even Wu Yun, usually so proud, couldn't help but be impressed.
So it wasn't just Luo Cheng, the head of the Mad Blade Martial Hall, who had told Wu Yun to befriend Lin Yan; Wu Yun himself wanted to do so as well.
"Brother Lin Yan, here to buy herbs?"
Wu Yun clasped his hands in greeting.
"What a coincidence. You're here too, Brother Wu Yun?"
Lin Yan smiled at him.
Wu Yun waved a hand. "Actually, this Medicine Hall is one of the Mad Blade Martial Hall's businesses. I'm just here to take a look today."
Lin Yan nodded in surprise. He had come here so many times, yet this was the first he'd heard of it.
He quickly went to buy the herbs. As for Wu Yun, after asking the shopkeeper to pack them up for Lin Yan, he noticed Lin Yan was about to pay and hurriedly stopped him.
"Brother Lin Yan, what are you doing?"
"If you need any herbs in the future, just come and take them! There's no need to stand on ceremony."
Lin Yan said, "That doesn't seem right."
Wu Yun pushed the money back into his hands. "What's wrong with it, Brother Lin Yan?"
"Besides, the Mad Blade Martial Hall and the Lin Clan have always been on good terms!"
"And we received the Lin Clan's help during the Hunting War last time."
"So what's a little something like this?"
"Just accept it, Brother Lin Yan!"
At that, Wu Yun pretended to get angry. "Or do you not want to consider me a friend?"
With that, Lin Yan had no choice but to agree. "Then I'll thank you for your kindness, Brother Wu Yun."
He soon returned to the rear courtyard.
Then he began refining second-grade pills.
By now, refining second-grade pills had become easy for Lin Yan.
Following the recipes, he quickly refined both kinds of pills.
Once home, Lin Yan began cultivating the Green Origin Technique.
As a third-rate technique, the Green Origin Technique could only open four meridians.
But for Lin Yan, its greater significance lay in confirming a new cultivation method he'd previously theorized.
So he didn't mind that the technique was low-grade.
Inside the room, Lin Yan first swallowed the Sensing Pill.
As it entered his stomach, he immediately felt his awareness of his body grow much sharper.
Following the Green Origin Technique's instructions, he searched for the special meridians in his body and soon found the first one!
He controlled the soul force within him, aimed at the somewhat obstructed meridian, and drove it in!
The meridian was instantly filled with soul force. The formidable power pressed inward, as if trying to squeeze out every bit of Lin Yan's essence force, and a wave of pain swept over him.
But Lin Yan had expected this pain.
He swallowed the Vein-Nourishing Pill he'd prepared beforehand, then once again controlled his essence force, driving it inward in relentless waves.
As he continued to work at it, the meridian that had been somewhat blocked gradually opened up.
Over the next stretch of time,
Lin Yan kept working to develop the special meridians in his body.
Through this process, Lin Yan learned just how important pills were to supporting his efforts.
Without pills to help, developing his meridians each time would have been agonizing.
Fortunately, Lin Yan had pills to assist him. He never missed a meridian when searching for one, and as he developed them, the pills nourished his body.
After a month of work,
Lin Yan had finally finished developing all four meridians in his body.
Lin Yan circulated his essence force again and felt it moving several times faster than before!
That meant he could unleash far more explosive power in a real fight!
"Good, good, good!"
"With results like these, my month of hard cultivation was well worth it."
Lin Yan was quite pleased. Feeling his essence force move faster than ever, he broke into a smile.
"Not bad at all."
"I never imagined techniques from two different worlds could complement each other. Your ingenious idea has opened up an entirely new world."
Seeing this, Yao Lao couldn't help praising him.
Although the cultivation process was rather troublesome, the results were impressive.
Even Yao Lao was quite tempted after seeing what Lin Yan had accomplished.
So if he ever managed to rebuild his body, he might well adopt this cultivation method to improve his own system.
"His, his, his~"
Just then, the Na Ring flashed. A moment later, a little nine-colored snake darted out, flicked its tongue, and affectionately nuzzled Lin Yan's hand.
"So it's you, little one."
"Are you hungry?"
Lin Yan stroked the little snake's head, his gaze gentle.
The little snake before him was, of course, the Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python he had obtained by signing in at the Hunting Grounds that day.
The little snake had grown astonishingly fast.
In just over a month, she had grown from twenty centimeters to about sixty.
Her strength had grown quickly too. Lin Yan had once taken her fishing in the Back Mountain, where they ran into several demonic beasts as strong as those at the seventh or eighth level of Body Tempering. She'd killed them with a single sweep of her tail. Lin Yan figured she was almost as strong as someone in the Earth Origin Realm.
Her only drawback was her enormous appetite. It was a good thing Lin Yan had the Lin Clan's support now, and that the pills he refined worked better than the herbs themselves. Otherwise, he wasn't sure he could afford to raise the little thing.
"His, his, his~"
The little snake blinked and kept calling to Lin Yan.
"Alright, alright. I'll feed you."
Lin Yan couldn't help laughing helplessly.
He quickly took out specially made fire- and wood-attribute pills for her to enjoy.
Watching the little snake quickly finish eating and rub against his hand ingratiatingly,
Lin Yan felt that her bewitching look was growing more and more like Queen Medusa's.
He couldn't help sighing.
"Hey, could she really be Queen Medusa?"
"She really does look a bit like her."
"But..."
"Judging by how attached she is to me, even if she really is Queen Medusa, that might not be so bad?"
At the thought, Queen Medusa's fiery figure surfaced in Lin Yan's mind.
Even he couldn't help feeling his gaze grow heated.
He couldn't help it. She was just too much.
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