If I had known I wouldn't have saved you!

On the jade bed, Lu Qingyao was sitting cross-legged with her eyes closed, absorbing the rich vital energy around her.

A one-year-old intermediate-level crystal in front of her was shining with blue light, and wisps of vitality floated out from the crystal and wrapped around her.

After a moment, she frowned slightly and stopped absorbing vital energy.

"It still doesn't work..."

Opening her eyes and looking at Yuan Jing in front of her, Lu Qingyao couldn't help but sigh.

After her cultivation reached the peak of the middle stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm, she could no longer make any further progress. No matter how many intermediate Yuan Crystals she absorbed, the Qi Sea in her Dantian remained intact and no longer increased in the slightest.

"It seems that I can only try to break through to the late stage of the Spiritualization after finding a high-level Yuan Crystal."

Lu Qingyao muttered to herself as she put the three-foot square intermediate-level crystal stone into the storage bag.

She had reasons to break through to the late stage of the Spirit Transformation, and reasons to rebel against the Palace of Gods. These reasons had supported her to this day and allowed her to persevere despite numerous pressures.

Thinking of this, Lu Qingyao's mind moved and she took out a dark red pill.

This is the life-changing pill made by Lin Shiyi.

At that time, she distributed the Life-Changing Pills to many cultivators in the Demon Refining Palace, but there were still a few pills left. She did not eat them because she was afraid of side effects. Not only her, but Bian Desheng and Qian Yue Kunxing also did not take them because they did not believe that Lin Shiyi could refine the Life-Changing Pills. A cultivator in the middle stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm values ​​his life even more and would not swallow pills carelessly.

But now that so many cultivators have improved their cultivation because of the Life-Changing Pill, Lu Qingyao suddenly wanted to take it and give it a try.

Carefully examining the pill in her hand, Lu Qingyao’s thoughts gradually drifted away.

The rumored life-changing pill was actually refined, and it was made by a cultivator who ascended from a small world.

"Alchemy Immortal? I never thought such a gifted cultivator really existed..."

Lu Qingyao murmured, her phoenix eyes slightly narrowed, in her heart she was glad that she had accepted Lin Shiyi, and glad that she trusted him at the critical moment. It was Lin Shiyi's strength and elixir, plus his intelligence, that saved the Demon Refining Palace.

As soon as thoughts come to mind, they fly in all directions, sometimes thinking about this place, sometimes thinking about that place.

Thinking back to when Lin Shiyi first came to the Demon Refining Palace and knelt on the ground begging for mercy, Lu Qingyao immediately raised the corners of her mouth with pride.

Such a powerful monk once knelt down to worship her.

Her thoughts turned, and she remembered that Lin Shiyi had eaten up three years of low-level Yuan Crystals by himself, and she frowned slightly.

Finally, the scene of Lin Shiyi scaring off the two factions of monks in front of the main hall appeared in front of her eyes.

She didn't think Lin Shiyi was that powerful, she just remembered that she was tied up by him with a rope and dragged outside like a lowly slave.

I remembered him touching my face wantonly, and staring at me while I was bound, with that wolf-like look in his eyes.

Looking back now, Lu Qingyao didn't feel scared. What was even more terrible was that she was surprised to find that she was inexplicably excited. That's right, she was actually a little excited about the feeling of being tied up tightly and treated roughly, which she had never experienced before...

This made a red cloud appear on her face.

"I...what's wrong with me?"

Lu Qingyao's cheeks flushed, and she was a little ashamed of her own thoughts. However, the unspeakable sense of freshness and pleasure rose from her heart so clearly.

She took a deep breath, suppressed the restlessness in her heart, and kept comforting herself, thinking that she must have been under too much pressure recently, which caused her to have such wild thoughts.

Coming back to her senses, she stared at the pill in front of her and immediately made up her mind.

"Let's give it a try. If you don't improve your skills, you will never be able to defeat them..."

Thinking of this, Lu Qingyao became angry, opened her mouth, and swallowed the life-changing pill.

After the pill entered her stomach, in addition to a pure vital energy, there was also a red light. This light entered her qi sea, then dispersed and merged into the various veins in her body, faintly helping her to widen the veins. After a while, the red light gathered again and continued to rotate around the qi sea. As it rotated, the qi sea was actually expanding a little bit.

Lu Qingyao was extremely happy. She had not experienced this feeling of improvement in her cultivation for a long time. If she could continue like this, she would probably be able to enter the late stage of the Spirit Transformation within a year or two.

What she didn't know was that after she swallowed the life-changing pill, a red line appeared in her dantian. The red line passed through the stone door in front of her, through the corridor in the cabinet, and far into another stone chamber in the cabinet.

At the same time, Lin Shiyi was also absorbing the rich vitality of the intermediate Yuan Crystal. There were many intermediate Yuan Crystals in front of him. Except for the half piece on the high platform of the main hall, the remaining pieces were snatched back by Lu Qingyao. These intermediate Yuan Crystals were scattered, but added together they had a weight of twenty years, which was enough for him to absorb.

During his retreat till now, he had almost absorbed all the half of the intermediate-level Yuan Crystal, but his Qi Sea still showed no signs of expansion.

The vital energy entered the body and was transformed into immortal power. It was then transported along the red lines to the many cultivators who had taken the Life-Changing Pill. However, those cultivators did not return any immortal power, which meant that they were all still stuck at the peak of the early stage of the Spirit Transformation Stage and no one had advanced.

This made Lin Shiyi a little anxious. If he couldn't reach the late stage of Spirit Transformation as soon as possible, he would still find it difficult to protect himself when facing the three major forces.

The reason why he colluded with Lu Qingyao and staged this drama was to protect the many cultivators in the Demon Refining Palace.

Although they could fight on the frontal battlefield, most of these Demon Refining Palace monks would certainly not survive, and in this case, the Life-Changing Pill would have been in vain. That's why Lin Shiyi used the pill to forcibly break through his cultivation level and scared off many monks with his powerful sword techniques. In fact, he could only release such powerful sword techniques two or three times at that time. If he really couldn't scare them away, he would have to fight with all his might. Fortunately, those people valued their lives and escaped without being taught.

But they will definitely report the matter after they go back. If the Red Refining God and the Saint of Chastity come in person by then, their current cultivation level will not be enough.

Thinking of this, Lin Shiyi stopped being distracted and absorbed the vital energy more attentively. The immortal power that dispersed along the red line also gradually increased.

Those low-level cultivators are not talented enough, and their meridians in their bodies are too narrow, so they cannot absorb intermediate-level vital energy, and therefore cannot enjoy the rich immortal power in the intermediate-level vital energy. But now it is different. Lin Shiyi absorbs the intermediate-level vital energy into their bodies and sends the immortal power directly into their qi sea through the red line, allowing them to avoid the absorption process and directly enjoy the benefits. In this way, the speed of promotion will naturally increase.

Lin Shiyi is now like a transit station, constantly converting and accepting vital energy. His Qi sea is already more than twice as large as that of the cultivators of the same level, and the vital energy in it is also thicker, containing enormous energy.

After absorbing and converting day and night, finally, the first cultivator to break through appeared.

A stream of pure immortal power was transmitted along the red line, entered the Qi Sea, and entangled around the edge of the Qi Sea, trying to widen the Qi Sea a little. However, this alone was obviously not enough. The immortal power did not rotate for long before it was completely integrated into the Qi Sea and disappeared.

Lin Shiyi did not lose heart. He continued to hold his breath and concentrate, absorbing the surrounding vital energy even faster. After a long time, more cultivators broke through. A stream of immortal power flowed into his body along the red light in front of him, condensed into a white ball of light, and rotated rapidly in the sea of ​​​​qi.

"Only one step away!"

Seeing that the ball of light was getting bigger and bigger, he let out a low shout and opened all the meridians in his body. The surrounding vital energy gathered rapidly and completely enveloped him. Due to the high concentration of vital energy, the surrounding air became extremely viscous and the vital energy almost turned into liquid. If Lu Qingyao was there, she would be surprised to find that after the concentration of these intermediate vital energy, the quality was almost the same as the vital energy produced by high-level Yuan Crystals!