This healing medicine was no ordinary remedy from the mortal world. It was a Restoration Pill, an immortal healing medicine Li Xiaoya had concocted using the recipe Senior Brother Liu Hang had given him. It even ranked among second-rank pills, so its effects were naturally extraordinary. As a healing medicine, it did not have the strict requirement of cultivation-enhancing pills, which could only be taken after reaching the fifth level of the true cultivation stage. Still, he could not take healing pills of too high a rank.
And so, Li Xiaoya sat cross-legged inside the tree hollow, concentrating fully on circulating his cultivation to repair his internal injuries. The spiritual qi between heaven and earth flowed steadily into his body, and without realizing it, he entered a wondrous state. Gradually, he felt as though he had become one with the great tree, as though he were the tree itself. The spiritual qi seemed to have gained a spirit of its own as it poured into his body. All he felt was the mass of qi in his dantian slowly growing, growing...
He had no idea how long he had sat there before he realized that his internal injuries had healed completely. Li Xiaoya opened his eyes. By then, daylight had flooded the sky. Never before had he felt so good. His five senses seemed to have grown considerably sharper, as though the world had suddenly become much clearer. He could even hear the rustling of insects chewing leaves ten zhang away, and could make out every disgusting pore on a caterpillar's body.
"Ugh! Why am I looking at that disgusting caterpillar?" Li Xiaoya said, unsure whether to laugh or cry. He checked his body again and found that all his injuries had healed. Even the claw wounds on his shoulder