Watching the pale-red "Samadhi True Fire" coil around the rapidly spinning ball of medicinal liquid like tiny dragons, darting into it from time to time, Zhang Xiaohua wiped the faint sweat from his brow and finally let out a breath. When he checked the true qi within his body, however, he was startled again. This simple liquid-fusing process had consumed nearly half of all his true qi.
Zhang Xiaohua could not help sighing again. Cultivation at the Qi Cultivation stage truly was too insignificant to show off.
Yet he had never lacked diligence in his daily cultivation. He had simply entered the Immortal Dao too recently. Who knew what year or month it would be before he could cultivate all eighteen layers of that cultivation method one by one?
With a sigh, Zhang Xiaohua carefully examined the pill furnace with his divine sense before slipping back into the cave. The moment he returned, he was startled. It was not that there was anything strange inside the cave, but rather that, from the cave entrance, he could see the blazing sun hanging high in the distant sky had already begun to tilt westward.
"This..." Zhang Xiaohua was at a loss. When he had entered the cave earlier, it had only been morning, and the newborn sun had just cast enough light into the cave. Yet the simple process from fusing the liquid to nurturing the pill had taken an entire morning?
"Ah!" Zhang Xiaohua immediately slapped his forehead. It was already past noon. Wasn't his wager match with Lu Lihong scheduled for the afternoon? Looking at the time, it was just about to begin.
Of course, Zhang Xiaohua immediately put away his panic. He had been forced into this afternoon's wager match like a duck driven onto a perch. If he