"Ever since I told you Jia Nan Academy might have the Fallen Heart Flame, which can temper Dou Qi, you've completely stopped thinking about cultivating on your own, haven't you?"
"Hehehe." Xiao Yan smiled bashfully.
After everything she had experienced lately, she had confirmed that bitter, painstaking cultivation had no future-
Advancing in rank was really just accumulating energy: absorbing, compressing, and refining the energy of heaven and earth, then converting it into Dou Qi to strengthen the body and increase one's power.
There was no real difference between Dou Qi cultivated by "wasting" huge amounts of time and Dou Qi gained from popping pills, tempered with beast flame, and compressed into shape with soul power.
Or rather, the only "difference" was that "popping pills" could leave one's "Dou Qi unstable," planting hidden dangers for the future.
But with a fused flame comparable to a Seventh Rank beast flame tempering her Dou Qi, there was only so "unstable" a mere Dou Shi like her could get.
Why did most people spend all day grinding away at cultivation instead of using pills to break through? Was it because they didn't want to?
It was simply because they couldn't afford them.
Besides, as long as she didn't raise her rank recklessly while taking pills, and regularly conditioned her body with medicinal baths and the like, those "side effects" could be avoided entirely.
So-what sensible person actually cultivated?
Practicing alchemy and Dou Techniques was all well and good, but did she really have to handle "leveling up" herself? She could just take some pills.
Xiao Yi Xian was a [poison-and-medicine jar], so she might as well become a "medicine jar" too. Compressing Dou Qi was far more efficient than absorbing it through cultivation.
"Hmm... I do have a few pill recipes suitable for