A year quietly slipped by amid the peaceful days at the Pill Tower.
Over that year, Lin Yu's cultivation soared from Four-Star Dou Zong all the way to Peak Dou Zong, leaving him just one step away from Battle Venerable.
Han Shanshan broke through before he did, officially stepping into the Battle Venerable realm.
With Lin Yu's help, Du Ning finally succeeded in condensing the poison pill that had plagued Calamity Poison Body wielders for countless years.
Once the poison pill formed, the rampaging poisonous energy within her body was gathered into it like a hundred rivers returning to the sea. She no longer had to fear the poison energy backfiring and causing her body to explode, and her cultivation rose accordingly, allowing her to step into the threshold of Battle Venerable in one leap.
Zi Yan had spent the past year in sheer bliss.
After swallowing a Transformation Pill, she shed her dragon form and transformed into a delicate little girl.
Han Shanshan adored the little one, and Lin Yu was equally generous. The two of them supplied her without limit with sugar pills condensed from the essences of various spiritual herbs. The little girl ate to her heart's content, and her cultivation shot upward at an astonishing rate.
The Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python sisters, Cai Lin and Cai Die, had also made considerable progress over the past year.
With the pills Lin Yu provided and the unlimited resources piled upon them, both of their cultivations reached Five-Star Dou Zong.
Cai Lin now carried more composure between her brows. The Snake-People Clan was living and prospering peacefully in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, her younger sister had successfully evolved into a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, and everything was moving in a better direction.
Cai Die still retained the gentleness