Volume One, Chapter One
The next day.
Ximen Qiu arrived before the doors of the great hall. This hall was not above ground, but several hundred meters beneath it.
Two clusters of ghostly white fire burned at the entrance, illuminating the surroundings and giving off an eerie, terrifying feeling.
Because Ximen Fenghua could not be disturbed while cultivating, the refined pills would be placed at the entrance.
A three-meter-tall qilin statue stood at the entrance. It would teleport the pills inside, sparing Ximen Fenghua the need to come out and retrieve them.
Ximen Qiu placed the pills before the qilin statue and left as usual, with nothing seeming out of the ordinary.
Half a day passed.
The qilin statue slowly opened its mouth, and a streak of white light shot out, swallowing the wooden box.
Inside the great hall, Ximen Fenghua slowly opened her eyes and extended a hand to catch the pill box flying toward her.
Opening it, she found three blood pills inside. Each bore nine cloud patterns and exuded an intoxicating medicinal fragrance.
Ximen Fenghua was somewhat surprised. She could tell these pills were of extremely high quality; only the blood of a higher-level man could produce such a result. She had no idea where Ximen Qiu and the others had obtained it.
After checking and finding no problems, Ximen Fenghua swallowed a pill and resumed her cultivation.
The pill's effects were astonishingly good, increasing Ximen Fenghua's cultivation speed by more than tenfold.
A smile spread across Ximen Fenghua's face. She planned to reward them properly once she finished cultivating.
She continued cultivating.
Several days later, Ximen Fenghua took another pill and continued cultivating.
Before long, Ximen Fenghua had consumed all the pills. Their effects were astounding, equivalent to cultivating for more than ten years in one