Only after the Green Giant Python had completely finished eating the rabbit meat and closed its eyes to rest did Lin Yi remove the title "Little Compassion Little Mercy". This was for precautions' sake.
If he had removed it right when the python took a bite, what if it decided to spit it out? That would be embarrassing.
He glanced at the virtue points and found it surprising that merely feeding the python meat had consumed over seven hundred points. And this was after he had continuously fed it the day before to increase its goodwill.
If he had entered the Minor Blessing State right from the start and fed the python, he'd probably have to spend ten times the virtue points, and it still might not even work out.
Furthermore, this time, he managed to take advantage of those two Sky Demon Sect cultivators. If they hadn't tried to steal the python's food, triggering its disgust and increasing its interest in food, he might have had to spend even more virtue points.