A rare opportunity

The vulture was so excited after hearing this! He immediately bowed down and even changed his address.

"Thank you so much, Senior Li... Senior Li for your guidance!"

The vulture wanted to return to his cave immediately to refine the elixir. But he heard Li Yuyan say:

"Brother Ying! I'm a little tired from refining the elixir, so how about I stay here and protect you?"

"This... Senior, how can Vulture be expected to protect you?"

"Brother Ying! We get along great, no need to be polite!"

Li Yu smiled.

"Then I'll have to trouble you, Senior!"

The vulture naturally understood that if Li Yu protected it and gave it timely guidance, it might gain unexpected benefits. It immediately bowed respectfully to Li Yu.

On the one hand, alchemy consumes the soul. On the other hand, it is actually a tempering of the soul. Long-term alchemy consumes a lot of the power of the soul. At the same time, his soul has improved slightly.

He had originally wanted to rest for a while. Firstly, to recover his spiritual power, and secondly, to consolidate his spiritual cultivation achievements. Now, he could take this opportunity to guide Vulture in refining the Barrier Breaking Pill. It was like killing three birds with one stone!

His decision to protect the vultures was a spur-of-the-moment decision. For demonic beasts, breakthroughs didn't involve any bottlenecks, as long as they had sufficient resources. The reason the Three Saints of Yunfu had struggled to break through wasn't because of any barrier, but rather because they had insufficient accumulated spiritual energy.

Of course, the lack of accumulation wasn't due to a lack of spiritual energy or a lack of spiritual herbs. Rather, it was determined by the demon beasts' own cultivation methods. Their cultivation largely came from nature, and even when they cultivated autonomously, they lacked any kind of cultivation techniques to aid them. Consequently, they refined more, but absorbed less. And even less ultimately transformed into their spiritual energy!

The Barrier Breaking Pills Li Yu gave them contained vast and pure spiritual energy! The reason human cultivators could break through barriers was due to the powerful impact of this immense spiritual energy on the barriers! For the demons, this spiritual energy didn't need to be refined; they simply needed to absorb it with their concentration. As for how much they absorbed, that was up to them.

After Li Yu's guidance and timely instruction, the spiritual power absorbed by the vulture was incomparable to that of the blood wolves!

You have to know that once the elixir enters the body, the spiritual energy contained within it is rapidly released. It's simply impossible to completely absorb it; some spiritual energy will inevitably be excreted before it's absorbed. Even for humans, it's difficult to achieve zero waste, let alone for demons.

What Li Yu taught the vulture was how to control the spiritual power in the elixir and release it slowly, so that it could absorb more spiritual power contained in the elixir!

The vulture immediately sat cross-legged, put the pill into his mouth, and began to refine and absorb it according to Li Yu's instructions.

Seeing that the vulture was getting better, Li Yu no longer needed to give any guidance. He immediately took out a handful of freshly refined pills, stuffed them into his mouth, sat cross-legged, closed his eyes and practiced!

An incense stick of time passed, and when Li Yu opened his eyes, he saw the vulture still keeping its eyes closed. Its aura had clearly increased, and it was still rising!

Li Yu couldn't help but smile and nod. He then glanced around before returning to the cave to continue refining the elixir. While both the elixir itself and the process of refining it were extremely slow in restoring his soul, it was the only way he could currently find a way to restore his soul. Li Yu believed that as long as he worked hard enough, his soul would eventually recover!

Entering the cave, looking at Hu Mei, who seemed to be hesitant and bored, he couldn't help but feel moved! Although this person had some flaws, after all, he was destined to be with her. Besides, she wasn't a bad person, just a little selfish! In this world of cultivation where the strong prey on the weak and fists are supreme, with her level of cultivation, if she wasn't a little selfish, she would probably have difficulty surviving!

He immediately took out a porcelain bottle from his ring and handed it to Hu Mei with a smile:

"Sister! I'm eager to recover my spiritual power, so I need to continue refining pills. Please don't blame me for neglecting you! Here is the Peiyuan Pill I refined myself, which may help improve your cultivation. I hope you will accept it!"

Hu Mei's feelings towards Li Yu were somewhat complicated. She didn't know whether to be grateful or resentful of him. If she hadn't met him, she would have died countless times! However, it was precisely this encounter with Li Yu that made her unable to return home! She could only hide in this monster cave, living in fear!

She also wanted to practice, but she wasn't in the mood. She also didn't have the resources. Although her ring contained various spiritual herbs and medicines, as well as high-level beast cores, she couldn't directly absorb and refine these things.

Seeing Li Yu handing her the pill, she couldn't help but be incredulous! After all, in her opinion, she was of no help to Li Yu, just a burden!

"Pei... Pei Yuan Dan? For... for me?"

Li Yu smiled and nodded:

"Use these first. Although this Peiyuan Pill isn't quite suitable for you right now, you can still use it. Once my spirit recovers a little, I'll help you refine a better pill!"

"Okay, okay! Thank you very much! Thank you very much!"

Li Yu just smiled and began to refine his own medicine.

Hu Mei was filled with excitement as she held the bottle of Pei Yuan Dan! You know, this Pei Yuan Dan was a elixir used by Yuanying realm cultivators! Each one was priceless! A cultivator like her had never even seen one, let alone possessed one! And now, not only did she own one, but she had a whole bottle! Although it hadn't been opened yet, she knew from the shaking sound that there was at least one!

She carefully opened the cork and looked inside. Her heartbeat quickened again! There were two pills in this porcelain bottle!

Hu Mei hesitated and put the bottle cap back on, then held the porcelain bottle in her palm, stunned!

It’s not that she can’t refine it, nor that she doesn’t want to refine the Peiyuan Pill, but she really can’t bear to do it!

The classification of elixirs into different levels does not mean that people with high cultivation base cannot consume low-level elixirs, but their effects are limited! It also does not mean that people with low cultivation base cannot consume high-level elixirs, but it is just a bit wasteful!

Becoming stronger! It was the goal every cultivator pursued! Given the opportunity to become stronger, no one would give up easily. She believed that if she could refine even one of these pills, her cultivation would be significantly improved!

However, this Peiyuan Pill is too precious, and she wants to save it for after she breaks through to the Nascent Soul stage!

Another batch of pills was refined. Li Yu looked up by chance and found that Hu Mei was still holding the pill bottle with a troubled look on her face. He was surprised and asked:

"Sister! What's wrong with you? Are you having any problems?"

Hu Mei suddenly woke up! She looked up and saw Li Yu's concerned eyes, and said hurriedly:

"No...it's okay!"

"Are you really okay? Then why don't you refine the elixir?"

Li Yu frowned.

"I...I want to keep it. In the future..."

Li Yu finally understood what was going on after hearing this. He immediately smiled and said:

"Don't worry, sister! Just focus on refining it! This Peiyuan Pill isn't difficult to refine. I'll help you refine a few bottles when the time comes!"

"Really...really?"

"Why would I lie to you? Just refine it!"

Upon hearing this, Hu Mei no longer hesitated and immediately opened the bottle cork, took out a Peiyuan Pill and put it into his mouth!

Although this Pei Yuan Dan was of a higher grade, it was much milder than the Po Zhan Dan. Li Yu wasn't worried about releasing his spiritual energy too quickly and causing harm to Hu Mei. Therefore, when he saw Hu Mei enter a state of cultivation, he prepared to continue refining the pill.

At this moment, a high-pitched howl came from outside the cave! From the sound, Li Yu judged that it was the sound of a vulture. He couldn't help but feel overjoyed! He immediately rushed out of the cave and smiled at the vulture who was howling towards the sky:

"Congratulations, Brother Ying!"

"Hahaha! Senior Li! Old... I've made a breakthrough! I've actually broken through three levels in a row! Thank you so much for the elixir! Thank you so much for your guidance! You've been like a rebirth to me! I'll never forget your kindness. Please accept my greetings!"

Li Yu quickly rushed over and grabbed Vulture who was about to kneel down, saying with a smile:

"No! No! This is absolutely unacceptable! Brother Ying's advancement is truly a blessing for him, a natural outcome! I, Li, simply happened to be there! I dare not take credit for it!"