"Whew~"
As Li Chengfeng felt the power circulating within him, his gaze stirring, Zhao Lie, seated cross-legged beside him, also let out a long breath. He slowly opened his eyes, clenched his fists, and smiled.
"This Snake Blood Elixir truly is extraordinary. I spent half a day refining it, yet I only managed to refine a tenth of it and add a single aperture to my body."
"Fortunately, the pill's medicinal power can be stored within the body and refined gradually, so there's no need to refine it all in one breath. That saves it from being wasted."
Zhao Lie spoke with a smile, but then his eyes flickered. "Still, even so, the power added by a single aperture is anything but insignificant. It's enough to steadily raise one's strength!"
"Hahaha, as long as you gained something, that's good. At a time like this, every bit of strength we gain means another bit of chance to win!"
Seeing Zhao Lie's expression, Li Chengfeng laughed heartily.
"Compared to you, this little improvement of mine is nothing. But yes, at a time like this, any increase is a good thing!"
Zhao Lie turned to look at Li Chengfeng. His strength had actually risen to the middle stage of the Aperture-Condensing Realm. Though Zhao Lie had long grown accustomed to the uniqueness of Li Chengfeng's abilities, he was still shaken, filled with complicated emotions.
That feeling of being compared to someone else and dying of frustration rose within him.
He had painstakingly circulated his true cultivation method at full force for half a day, only to refine one-tenth of a single pill.
Yet in that same amount of time, Li Chengfeng had refined a full eight pills!
That was simply too astonishing!
"We're brothers. Why bother worrying about that?"
Hearing Zhao Lie's words,