Since Zhang Hong could no longer take the Life Flowers, Li Xiaoya still had several left. After a moment's hesitation, he decided to try taking one himself. After all, he would soon be cultivating the Ten-Thousand-Year Body Tempering Diagram. He did find it rather odd: most cultivation methods were called arts or manuals, yet this Ten-Thousand-Year Body Tempering Diagram was called a diagram...
Still, there was little point dwelling on that. As long as the cultivation method was powerful, that was enough.
Li Xiaoya took a Life Flower, and its effects were surprisingly good. He felt that the vitality in his blood had become much richer and purer. It felt somewhat like body tempering, yet not quite the same. His physical body had not grown much stronger, but his overall vitality seemed far more astonishing, and even his cultivation speed had improved. These Life Flowers truly were wonderful things...
However, Li Xiaoya took only one and kept the rest, saving them for Zhang Hong in case of an emergency. Perhaps they would prove useful later. Another thought did occur to him, though: perhaps he could get some more Life Flowers from the Yellow Ridge Gate...
The Yellow Ridge Gate certainly took a long time to refine the Earth Demon Dragon's essence blood. It actually took over a month, forcing Huang Huatian to visit Li Xiaoya several times to explain the delay. The Earth Demon Dragon was an Elder Demon Beast of the Heaven-and-Earth Realm, and the purity of its bloodline was truly astonishing. Extracting its essence blood was naturally not as simple as slaughtering a chicken and draining its blood. It had to be tempered and refined with spirit fire, then processed with various precious heavenly materials and earthly treasures. This was a secret art unique to the Upper Realm.