ken decided to bury his urge to eat the candies for a while because he just wanted to replay the process inside his mind many times while using other two consciousness to recover the lost mental energy .
in truth qi nourishing pill was a tier 2 pill which meant that ken had completely skipped the tier 1 pill and started his pill refining experience with much more difficult pill. now he was not reflecting on his choice but was genuinely happy as he rediscovered the value of his mental powers for alchemy and cultivation .
in his knowledge the qi nourishing pill was at the bottom tier but the qualification of pills in this cultivation world was a little different . he had read all those books for something so he knew about the tier of the pill he was going to refine but still went with it as the other pills were much less potent for him and he believed more in the knowledge from the divine sect inheritance than this low grade world . still ken would have through many major realms before he can ascend to the divine realm and can transform into a dragon .
the qi nourishing pills were used by late stage qi condensation realm cultivators to nourish their qi and increase the reserve while purifying the qi really little by little. even foundation realm cultivators of early stage would use these pills to recover their qi quickly like in battle etc . ken simply chose to eat these pills because his purity of qi will increase much more because of the quality of pills and the quick absorption by the devouring dragon art .
ken will absorb a single pill at a time first before his art will recognize the pill and the hungry dragon will want more at once . his cultivation will soar and ken estimates that he will reach peak 3rd level just by absorbing these pills completely . well he knows that more pure the food , the dragon will become more stronger quickly . this is the extra boon of cultivating this art because Ken's body will never get used to a pill and the effect will be same everytime he eats the pill of same quality. other cultivators will die of shame if they know this because for them the potency of a pill decreaes little by little everytime they consume one .
Ken's one pill will produce more than 2 times the effect of any other top grade qi nourishing pill refined by other alchemist . simply because his pills have retained much more dense essence due to consuming less time in the process and the fact that he had used the pure pill fire which was formed from his pure qi . of course others could compete with him if they use high grade essence fire which are natural treasures that pill refiners absorb. but why would so powerful cultivators compete with him in refining qi nourishing pill such a low tier pill in first place . the essence fire is a powerful natural treasure so cultivatots who absorb them by themselves are at least in heaven realm which is much far for ken right now .
even the ones who are born with pure fire type bloodlines like Phoenix etc and the ones that receive esence fire seed from powerful cultivators which could be their master or relative , cannot compare with Ken's purity of qi at this level . it would of course rise a little more after ken finishes absorbing the pills and the rest of the purity will increase due to realm advancement naturally because the art is much more advanced than other cultivation manuals and simply dragons possess much pure energy .
ken rested for 2 hours and his mental energy had replenished completely. this time ken didnt bother cultivating inside the cultivation room because he just needs to eat the pills and his dragon art would refine them in seconds . this would of course a little pain to ken because his body would be refined at an extreme pace too .
ken just got up and sat cross legged near the small table where he had placed the herbs in order before . he placed a single pill inside his mouth which was slightly bigger than a table tennis ball . the pill melted instantly after sensing the temperature of his tongue and the essence flowed down slowly . ken could feel more than 100 times strong energy being absorbed by his cells as he was circulating the lesser and lesser esence further.
ken breathed a sigh of relief as he was afraid that the essence would be absorbed completely before even completing one full cycle . he could feel his cells bulging and internal organs shaking . the pain would be unbearable to normal cuktivators but ken who had endured the pain of soul much much worse than this endured it silently.
after just a few ren seconds ken felt the difference as his cultivation has risen considerably and the pain from his internal organs seized after small black dots were being secreted from the bores of his body . this time ken again consumed a single pill but just as he had expected the dragon was hungry and the essence was being absorbed much more faster than before. he didnt hesitate and ate two more pills together and finally one cycle was complete and he could feel the energy in his small compartments of cells which was of course qi increasing .
like this ken finished all the pills in just 10 minutes or so and the room was filled with bad smell due to the amount of impurities his body had excrete. he couldn't stop smiling even though he had already arrived in his bathroom with his full speed . of course the smell was killing the mood but the powerful energy inside his body made ken grin involuntarily . he had just reached the early stage of 4th level barely which he definitely hadn't expected considering the hungry dragon and most of the essence absorbed by the body .
ken felt more and more happy because this meant that his pills were even more effective than he had expected . he was thinking now that he would definitely become a narcissist at this rate because he couldn't stop praising his amazing self inwardly .
ken was now desperate to go out for a mission because he could easily squash a peak 9 level qi condensation cultivator with just his body strenght. but he couldn't reveal his strenght in front of others . he knew very well what happens to talented or lucky ones who are weak . on earth he had seen many young and talented people being abused by the old monsters and then thrown away like trash when they finally cannot take anymore and show rebellious attitude .
heck even some people kill them after enjoying the benefits of the talented one's hard work and kill them because dead dont speak anything after all . so in this cultivation sect where he can be considered a bottom soldier right now, would be easily crushed by some powerful young master who feels jealous of more talented ones than him . ken doesn't think that its impossible as he has seen the greed and dark emotions of people out busting and the aftermath too on earth many times .
his senior explorer from Britain was killed and someone stole the ancient coins he had from somewhere and even his corpse was found floating in the ocean many years after his death . nobody wants to die after all so why bother showing off your talent . at least is not an actor by profession whose job is to show his talent to the world...
now he is sleeping on a fluffy cushion which was made by the fur of tier 1 monster berserk sheep. of course he had identified the material from his wealth which was the knowledge..