National Preceptor's Residence.
In the courtyard.
Jiang Ning felt a stir in his heart as he looked at the Saint King Pills before him.
He picked up one of the Saint King Pills and fixed his gaze on it.
The pill was lustrous white like jade, threaded with faint golden patterns.
As he inhaled its medicinal fragrance from so close by, the blood and qi within him began to stir faintly, and a craving rose in his heart.
It was the body's instinctive desire, like a thirsty man in the desert suddenly beholding a clear spring, like someone starving for three days and nights seeing a delicious roast chicken.
He forcibly suppressed the desire rising within him.
Now that the Northern Azure King has entered the capital and the One-Word Side-by-Side King is about to emerge from seclusion, I must raise my strength as much as possible, Jiang Ning murmured inwardly.
Then, without further hesitation, he placed the Saint King Pill in his hand into his mouth.
The pill entered his mouth, saliva surged, and its coating dissolved rapidly.
The next instant, a warm yet vast medicinal force exploded in his mouth, flowing down his throat into his abdomen and surging through his limbs and bones.
What tyrannical medicinal efficacy! Feeling his body's reaction, feeling his cells reveling, he sighed inwardly.
Then he half-closed his eyes, and his throat bobbed.
Gulp—
As his throat moved, the Saint King Pill in his mouth dropped straight into his abdomen.
In an instant.
The Saint King Pill fell into his abdomen like an ice ball plunging into boiling lava, immediately triggering an intense reaction.
The solid pill frantically broke down within his abdomen, transforming into countless torrents of medicinal force.
Following the path it had just taken, those torrents surged mightily toward his