Chen Changming returned to the Vermilion Bird Barracks and, after entering his room in Yi Fire Third Courtyard, resumed refining Dust-Transcending Pills.
A month passed in the blink of an eye.
Throughout that month, Chen Changming scarcely left his room, keeping watch over the pill furnace day and night.
He refined batch after batch of Dust-Transcending Pills. The medicinal fragrance in the room grew so thick it seemed impossible to disperse, and even the walls seemed steeped in the pills' aura.
After completing the final batch of Dust-Transcending Pills, Chen Changming finally let out a long breath and put away the furnace.
"That should be enough..."
He looked at the dozens of jade bottles neatly arranged before him, relief showing on his face.
Each bottle held ten Dust-Transcending Pills, enough to supply his Demon Pets for forty or fifty years.
He stored the jade bottles in his Beast Taming Bracelet one by one, then extended his divine sense inside to check on his Demon Pets.
Most of the Demon Pets he raised had stopped cultivating and entered a dormant state after taking the Dust-Transcending Pills.
He had deliberately arranged this-as long as their cultivation did not advance, they would not readily draw a Lesser Heavenly Tribulation.
The rules of the Spirit Realm differed greatly from those of the Human Realm.
In the Spirit Realm, Beasts began facing Lesser Heavenly Tribulations at grade eight. After that, they had to undergo another Lesser Heavenly Tribulation with every increase in grade, continuing all the way to the Void Refinement Realm.
Grade-eight Beasts corresponded to human cultivators at the first through third levels of the Nascent Soul Realm.
Grade nine corresponded to the fourth through sixth levels of the Nascent Soul Realm, grade ten to the seventh through tenth levels, grade eleven to the