"The success rate is perfect, and the pill formation rate is also perfect! Let me see what makes a master-level Yellow Spirit Pill so wonderful!"
Zhao Yu opened a pill furnace and gazed at the twelve Yellow Spirit Pills inside. A slight smile curved his lips, and a flicker of joy passed through his eyes. Then, he pinched a Yellow Spirit Pill, stuffed it into his mouth, and swallowed it for refinement.
A hint of satisfaction swept through Zhao Yu's eyes, "This Yellow Spirit Pill improves the mana by about ten percent more than the ordinary ones, and it even has much less toxic properties. It can be called a Fine Quality Yellow Spirit Pill! Having Fine Quality Yellow Spirit Pills means that even in remote resource areas, I should have what it takes to stand on my own."
"After reaching the master level, there are still advancements! I'm really curious about what changes the Yellow Spirit Pills can undergo after the master level!"
Zhao Yu spent his days continuing to crazily refine Yellow Spirit Pills.
Su Bingyun silently acquired a large quantity of Spirit Grass and Spiritual Medicine for Zhao Yu's pill refinement.
Canglong Mountain Range, albeit fraught with dangers from demon beasts and evil spirits, also housed many Spiritual Lands. Deep within the Canglong Mountain Range, there even existed Second-Order Spirit Veins. Inside, many Spirit Grass and Spiritual Medicines could be found, allowing many Qi Refinement stage cultivators to gather herbs and afford housing in the market.
After taking control of Xiao Hei Shan Market, Su Bingyun was able to continuously procure various kinds of Spirit Grass and Spiritual Medicine.
"Uncle, it's bad! A Second-Order Demon Beast has broken into the market!"
The door to the alchemy room was shoved open by Li Xianjiao; the flames Zhao Yu was managing in the pill furnace flared up, instantly incinerating the Spiritual Medicine inside to ash.
"Second-Order Demon Beast!!"
Zhao Yu's mood, already irritable from the destroyed pills, suddenly calmed down, "The formation in Xiao Hei Shan Market has been destroyed—currently, the only one who can deal with a Second-Order Demon Beast is Su Bingyun."
Zhao Yu reached out, scooped up the petite Li Xianjiao into his arms, and used the Phantom Step Technique. Moving like an illusion, he flew towards the outside.
Li Xianjiao, with her distinct black and white large eyes, glanced at Zhao Yu's side face and snuggled into his embrace, feeling waves of warmth.
"Help!"
"No!"
"….."
Screams of terror echoed from within the market; several cultivators, radiating the Spiritual Light of Featherweight and Armored Horse Spells, hurriedly fled in all directions.
The Second-Order Snake Demon, over thirty meters long and covered in a layer of gray scales with wisps of gray mist swirling around, audaciously entered the market. Its enormous snake head shot out with unbelievable agility, swallowing a cultivator whole.
"Monster!! Die!!"
A cultivator, a flicker of despair in his eyes, tore a Fireball Talisman; a fireball shot out and struck the gray mist surrounding the Second-Order Snake Demon, instantly dissipating into nothingness.
The massive snake head of the Second-Order Snake Demon lunged towards the area where the cultivator had been, and that cultivator vanished without a trace.
"If no one can stop it, we'll just have to wait for it to eat its fill and leave by itself."
Zhao Yu's brows furrowed lightly as he restrained his aura and watched the Second-Order Snake Demon from afar.
"She's here!"
Zhao Yu suddenly looked towards the northwest and saw Su Bingyun flying over from a distance.
As soon as Su Bingyun saw the Second-Order Snake Demon, she directly activated the Fire Crow Mirror in her hand, with reddish spiritual patterns emerging. A three-foot-long Fire Crow flew out, lunging towards the Second-Order Snake Demon.
A solemn trace flashed in the eyes of the Second-Order Snake Demon. Its body's gray mist concentrated and it spat out a pillar of gray, poisonous mist aiming at the three-foot Fire Crow.
The three-foot Fire Crow swelled against the wind, and in an instant, its body expanded, transforming into a ten-foot-long Fire Crow that dove at the pillar of poisonous mist.
Once the Fire Crow spread over the poisonous mist, it immediately transformed into a sea of flames, enveloping the pillar of poisonous mist.
Huge swathes of the poisonous mist pillar were burned off, yet it seemed endless, as if it could never be entirely consumed.
Su Bingyun's Fire Crow Mirror indeed countered the poison mist of the Second-Order Snake Demon, but since Su Bingyun had just advanced to the Foundation Establishment Stage, even though she was an Earth Spirit Root genius with her main cultivation technique far surpassing ordinary techniques like the Earth Elemental Skill, her mana still couldn't match that of the Second-Order Snake Demon, leading to a standoff.
As the Second-Order Snake Demon spewed poisonous mist, it twisted its massive serpent body, lunging toward Su Bingyun.
Beyond powerful mana, the formidable demon bodies of these beasts serve as terrifying weapons. Some beasts lack spells, but their sheer physical might alone could withstand the magical artifacts of humans who are at the same level.
"Be careful to protect yourself!"
Zhao Yu laid Li Xianjiao on the ground and rushed towards the Second-Order Snake Demon. He activated a Featherweight Talisman, a Golden Light Talisman, and a Giant Strength Talisman in quick succession.
The three top-grade first-order talismans rapidly absorbed Zhao Yu's mana, draining nearly half of it. A faint golden shield appeared in front of him, making him as light as a feather while his strength surged by fifty percent.
Zhao Yu employed the Phantom Step Technique, rapidly closing the distance to the Second-Order Snake Demon.
As Zhao Yu reached a distance of a hundred paces from the Second-Order Snake Demon, he activated forty layers of the Vajra Dragon Elephant Art, tensing all his muscles gripping a first-grade top-quality Earth Attribute Magic Sword and performed the Flying Dagger Technique.
The first-grade top-quality Earth Attribute Magic Sword, bearing earth-yellow spiritual light, transformed into an earth-yellow lightning bolt shooting toward the eyes of the Second-Order Snake Demon.
At this time, all the power of the Second-Order Snake Demon was occupied in countering Su Bingyun, its formidable adversary. It was a moment slow in reacting, and it closed its eyes instantly upon sensing the magic sword.
The earth-yellow magic sword tore through the thin gray mist around the Second-Order Snake Demon, stabbing into its eyes, piercing its eyelids, and entering its eyes, with blood spurting out from them.
The Second-Order Snake Demon let out a miserable scream, the pillar of poisonous mist in front of it showing signs of turbulence and scattering, unable to entangle the sea of flames formed by the Fire Crow.
Cold light flashed in Su Bingyun's beautiful eyes; she bit her tongue, spraying a mouthful of blood into the Fire Crow Mirror, which made the light of the mirror even more brilliant.
The sea of flames converged once again into a Fire Crow, its wings flapping as it tore through the poisonous mist and dove at the head of the Second-Order Snake Demon, setting it alight.
Once ignited, the head of the Second-Order Snake Demon emitted painful, agonizing screams. Its massive serpent body rolled on the ground, smashing buildings in the Market into pieces.
A few breaths later, the head of the Second-Order Snake Demon was burned to ashes, and the headless body still twitched uncontrollably.
"Thank you for helping me get revenge! From this Second-Order Snake Demon, I only want the skin and bones; the rest is all yours!"
Despite her pale face, Su Bingyun still looked heroic and resolute, a hint of satisfaction sweeping across her eyes as she turned to Zhao Yu and spoke.
Zhao Yu said, "You killed this Second-Order Snake Demon. I'll just take some of the demon beast meat."
Zhao Yu, by consuming the blood and flesh of the Second-Order Snake Demon and using the Dao Fruit, could enhance his own Spiritual Root Aptitude. Although the Second-Order Snake Demon was quite precious, he did not get greedy and only wanted to maintain a good relationship with Su Bingyun.