"Really?" Li Xiaoya was overjoyed. He had never expected such an unexpected windfall, and hurriedly said, "Then please teach me right away, Senior! Without Grain-Avoidance Pills to replenish my strength, I'm already starting to feel weaker than before!" Like a snake slithering up a proffered stick, Li Xiaoya seized the opportunity, speaking gleefully before Feng Chenzi had a chance to reconsider.
"Very well! Listen carefully!" Feng Chenzi dispensed with further chatter and got straight to the point.
Half an hour later, Li Xiaoya sat cross-legged before the stone stele on this side, his hands moving continuously. His movements were gentle and unhurried, seemingly imbued with some strange power. Streams of spiritual qi surged rapidly toward his body with each motion. Before long, he realized he was absorbing spiritual qi three or four times faster than usual, and wild joy filled his heart. Isn't this simply defying the heavens? I never even dreamed of such speed! What sort of divine ability is this? How can a cultivation method like this exist? Feng Chenzi really did keep something up his sleeve. He had such an incredible cultivation method, yet never taught it to me. No wonder he reached such a high level of cultivation.
Li Xiaoya meditated through two or three full circulation cycles, thoroughly familiarizing himself with the rate at which this cultivation method absorbed spiritual qi. Although he absorbed it quickly, he still had to refine it using the Divine Flame Art. Even so, this was several times faster than ordinary seated cultivation.
Though it was fast, it still fell considerably short of taking pills. However, pills could not be taken every day either. Each dose had to be completely refined before he could take another, which was why he could only take one Divine Condensation Pill a month.
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