He returned to the underground safe house at Barren Mountain.
Li Ping checked on Wei Yiling again and found that her condition remained stable, but she still showed no signs of waking.
Forcing down his anxiety, Li Ping returned to his room and refined all the materials he had purchased into Beast-Feeding Pills. He continued cultivating while strengthening his bond with his Scarlet Flood Dragon spirit beast.
However, this place originally had only a single second-tier spirit spring. Even after Li Ping placed the Spirit-Eye Jade inside it, the concentration of spiritual qi remained insufficient to support the cultivation of a core formation middle-stage cultivator.
Thus, Li Ping could only put his qi refining cultivation on hold and concentrate on body refinement instead.
As he worked diligently at body refinement, a year quietly passed.
Wei Yiling's physical condition had improved considerably compared with a year earlier, but she still had not awakened.
Li Ping left the safe house and headed to Spirit Firmament City once more to gather information.
"I really can't stay in Great Zhou anymore!"
Standing aboard his silver Flying Boat after leaving Spirit Firmament City, Li Ping's eyes were filled with worry.
According to the information he had gathered, the Immortal Alliance and the Flood Dragon Clan had fought several major battles in the Eastern Sea. Countless low-level cultivators had died, and core
formation cultivators alone had suffered dozens of deaths.
One nascent soul cultivator had even had the misfortune of encountering several transformation-stage demon cultivators. They had battered his dharma body into collapse, and only his nascent soul had escaped.
Of course, the Demon Race had also suffered grievous losses in these battles. Their losses among demon cultivators below the nascent soul level had even far exceeded those of humanity.
But to transformation-stage demon cultivators, demon