The Qi Nurturing Pills the sect leader gave me are still plentiful. Why not... give one a try? Xiao Hua thought to himself. Yet his hands did not hesitate. He brushed a hand past his ear and took a Qi Nurturing Pill from the space behind his head. Rising, he walked to Jingxin Cave. Seeing no movement within, he assumed his senior brother and senior sister were both intensifying their refinement of the Qi Nurturing Pills.
But just as Xiao Hua turned and sat before the cliff, about to put the second Qi Nurturing Pill into his mouth, realization suddenly struck him. I refined the medicinal power of one Qi Nurturing Pill in merely half a day and one night. There's no reason Senior Brother and the others should still be refining theirs by now, is there?
He immediately returned to Jingxin Cave. Sure enough, when he saw Gong Mingwei and the other two with neither joy nor sorrow on their faces, it was clearly the sign that they were refining medicinal power.
Xiao Hua scratched his chin and understood. "Those three senior brothers of mine... could they have taken their second or even third Qi Nurturing Pill already?"
Thus, Xiao Hua calmly sat down as well and began refining his second Qi Nurturing Pill... At noon, Xiao Yuehong's flying boat appeared again. Standing atop it, Xiao Yuehong looked somewhat puzzled, his brows slightly furrowed. He knew his three disciples' cultivation levels well. Refining one Qi Nurturing Pill absolutely should not have taken so long. Moreover, three Qi Nurturing Pills would only barely be enough to push their spiritual power to the peak of the tenth layer of Qi Cultivation. To break through to the eleventh layer of Qi Cultivation, they would need another three or six Qi Nurturing Pills.