What is the concept of the third level of Qi Refining?

[Powerful! Invincible! Crushing!]

Even without reaching the pinnacle of this world, they are still beings far beyond the reach of the two of them!

If, at this moment, the Blood Demon Ancestor was at the peak of the second level of Qi Refining, the two of them joining forces might have a sliver of hope of defeating him...

[So, if the Blood Demon Ancestor's cultivation level is raised to the third level of Qi Refining, even if their numbers are multiplied by 100, they will only end up defeated and killed!]

On the path of cultivation, the further you progress, the more terrifying the gap becomes!

[Jiang Rou could fight against a second-level Qi Refining expert when she was at the first level of Qi Refining, but at the second level, she would be lucky to escape alive from a third-level expert.]

"We must stop him!"

Both were righteous cultivators. If they escaped now, the Blood Demon Ancestor would be too busy breaking through to pursue them, and they would certainly be able to escape alive. However, everyone in the city would surely die, and it would be difficult to find any trace of the Blood Demon Ancestor afterward.

[Senior Brother Chu took out a jade slip, sent a message to the sect, and then joined forces with Junior Sister Jiang Rou to unleash their swordsmanship and attack the Blood Demon Ancestor.]

"The Domain of Whispering Wind!"

"Azure Wind Slash!"

Although the two siblings, both belonging to the Guichen Sect, possess different colors of true energy, their element is wind.

"You two ignorant brats, heh heh heh (eerie laughter)! I'll show you the difference in cultivation levels!"

What kind of weird laughter is that?

Although the Blood Demon Ancestor was restricted by the formation and unable to move freely, retaliating was not a problem. He laughed arrogantly, and his blood-red true energy surged out, transforming into waves. The terrifying aura of a peak second-level Qi Refining cultivator instantly filled an area of ​​a hundred miles!

"Even if your cultivation methods are better, your aptitude is superior, and your true energy is purer, in the world of cultivation, cultivation level is paramount!"

"One is at the peak of the first level, and the other is at the mid-stage of the second level. Before me, they are nothing but ants!"

The moment the opposing attacks, one cyan and one purple, collided with the crimson true energy, they were both swallowed by the sea of ​​crimson, while the crimson true energy still retained a small portion of its power!

The two siblings had to launch another attack to block the crimson true energy. Their expressions turned grim. Although they hadn't used their full strength, hadn't the Blood Demon Ancestor also used his full strength?

Even if the two of them team up, they will still be slightly weaker than him!

Upon realizing this, Senior Brother Chu frowned: "Junior Sister, put down that baby. You mustn't be distracted any longer."

"We must exert all our strength to have any hope of killing this fiend; otherwise, the entire city's inhabitants will be implicated!"

The girl shook her head firmly: "No, if we put him down and we are defeated, he will surely die and become a part of the mortal world."

"But he's in my arms. Even if I lose, I still have hope of leaving with him, at least I can save this innocent child."

You think to yourself, "This girl... this kind of behavior isn't just saintly, it's downright... well, you know!"

"To put it nicely, they have their own principles; to put it bluntly, they're both stubborn and stupid."

[“The kind that absolutely refuses to listen to reason, incredibly stubborn.”]

[“A classic example of her personality in fantasy martial arts novels would be: the male protagonist tells her to run, but she insists on staying put, refusing to leave no matter what, and shouting that they should live and die together.”]

["Ultimately, this leads to the male protagonist being held hostage by the villain or something similar, requiring him to pay a heavy price to defeat the villain—if she left, defeating the villain would actually be easier."]

"Is she the kind of idiotic female lead who's only good at causing trouble and making people's blood pressure rise?"

"If I saw a woman like that anywhere else, I would be extremely angry."

"So now she's completely thinking of me."

"If I were still in my developmental stage, I would also be angry, thinking of giving her a big beating to make her realize the mistake of her behavior and correct her personality."

"But I've already entered my invincible phase."

Therefore, when faced with Jiang Rou, who completely lacks a sense of the bigger picture and is driven by emotions, you simply find her extremely adorable.

"So what if she's immature? She's immature because of me! And I happen to have the ability to cover for her when she's immature!"

Yun Shou: "..."

"Those incredibly spoiled and unruly female supporting characters in various novels, who still have someone backing them up... are they products of your kind of thinking?"

Yun Shou thought about it more and more and felt that there was no problem.

In the online novels he read in his previous life, there were a lot of female supporting characters who would always pick fights with the protagonist. After picking fights, they would call on their doting older brothers and fathers to unfairly suppress the protagonist.

For example, the protagonist participates in a competition and boasts, "I'm going to take first place." Then a female supporting character appears and says, "First place belongs to my brother. You don't deserve it." Then there's a series of trouble-making, difficulties, and plots where she finds someone to target the protagonist.

However, from another perspective, no matter how disgusting she may be to the protagonist and the readers from the protagonist's point of view, in the eyes of her relatives who support her, she is only disgusting to an unknown roadside boy, and her image has always been cute!

With this thought in mind, your tiny, delicate hands quietly began to climb upwards.

[Gently reaching out towards the exposed skin of her neck.]

[I didn't mean anything by it, I just wanted to help her increase her stats; you need to encounter something to increase your essence.]

[As a result, the hand was gently pressed back by a surge of true energy halfway through its reach, and a clear voice rang in your ear: "Be good, don't move."]

[You paused for a moment, your hand stopped; that meant you couldn't add points anymore.]

[But then you realize with a sigh: "I almost forgot, I can also increase my skill level by touching her internal energy; I don't necessarily have to touch her body."]

"You forgot a thing, you just wanted to touch it."

"Kumosuke".

"The longevity of the peach".

[You flicked your little hand backward, striking the pale blue true energy while simultaneously using the power of your essential blessing.]

[Jiang Rou's true nature: 1 → 2.45 times.]

"After all these years, the maximum limit for individual rewards and punishments per instance is still only slightly more than double."

Yun Shou thought to himself, "Compared to the other abilities, this reduction is the most outrageous."

[Within the Qi Refining stages one and two, where the strength difference is minimal, Jiang Rou's combat power skyrocketed after more than doubling all her attributes!]

[Originally, at the peak of the first level, she was equivalent to Senior Brother Chu, who was at the mid-stage of the second level, thanks to her incredibly powerful innate holy body.]

[As a disciple of a righteous sect, Senior Brother Chu, with an incredibly solid foundation and a mental state and magical abilities far surpassing those of other rogue cultivators at the same level, possesses combat strength comparable to that of the Blood Demon Ancestor at the late stage of the second realm.]

The previous battle involved two late-stage, second-tier Blood Demon Ancestors fighting against him, a peak-level opponent.

Now that you've given her some extra points, Jiang Rou is almost on par with the Blood Demon Ancestor, all on her own!