Gu Qingfeng looked at the crystal clear Peiyuan Pill in his hand, sniffed the medicinal fragrance, and then swallowed it in one gulp.

"Ugh~ It's so bitter!" Gu Qingfeng's handsome face wrinkled instantly.

This Peiyuan Pill really smells good but tastes bitter.

After all, this is a pill after all, and a pill is also a medicine. How delicious can medicine be?

When the bitterness in his mouth dissipated a little, Gu Qingfeng only felt a huge and pure energy flow suddenly surging from his dantian.

It was as if I had drunk a full pot of hot water in one breath. My body was swollen and hot, and my dantian was about to explode.

This was because his realm was too low, only the third level of Qi Gathering, but he took the elixir for Internal Qi realm warriors, and his body was supported by the power of the medicine.

At this time, his dantian was already filled with medicinal power, but the medicinal power of Peiyuan Dan was still being released, and the excess medicinal power began to dissipate along his body.

Gu Qingfeng was shocked. How could this be possible? Such a shameful waste.

So he hurriedly practiced the Pure Yang Skill, began to circulate the meridians rapidly, and madly absorbed the medicinal power.

Under the effect of the medicine, the vitality in Gu Qingfeng's body, as thin as a hair, grew rapidly, and his cultivation efficiency became dozens of times faster than before!

An hour later, Gu Qingfeng felt that his body had reached a critical point.

It's like a balloon that has been blown to its limit.

As the medicine continues to be absorbed.

puff!

A slight sound was heard inside the body!

The level was broken!

Gu Qingfeng's aura also rose steadily.

The fourth level of Qi gathering!

"Hahaha, finally..."

Before he could finish his words, his expression suddenly changed. It turned out that the power of the medicine in his body surged again.

He never expected that the elixir taken by this inner energy realm warrior would be so powerful.

I don't feel how strong a warrior in the Inner Qi realm is? He can't even break his own defense.

Gu Qingfeng didn't have time to think about it. In order to avoid waste, he practiced Chun Yang Gong frantically again and immersed himself in cultivation.

.......

In the early morning, the sun rises in the east, scorching hot.

A ray of golden sunlight came through the window and hit Gu Qingfeng.

At this moment, he was like a statue, sitting there in meditation motionless all night.

suddenly!

Gu Qingfeng's eyes, which were originally closed, opened, and a gleam of light flashed in his eyes, as bright as stars.

The aura on his body exploded, and it was...almost at the fifth level of Qi Gathering!

"Is this the peak of the fourth level of Qi Gathering?" Gu Qingfeng was a little dazed.

If cultivation had a progress bar, then the current progress bar would definitely be at 99% of the fourth level of Qi Gathering, with only 1% left to break through to the fifth level of Qi Gathering.

"If I could take a few more Peiyuan Pills, wouldn't I be able to reach the Inner Qi realm in a matter of minutes?"

"Pills, pills! I need pills!"

Having tasted the sweetness, Gu Qingfeng no longer complained that Peiyuan Pills were bitter. It was true that good medicine tasted bitter!

Taking pills to practice is really not the same as ordinary practice.

The practice of Qi Gathering Realm requires absorbing the vital energy of heaven and earth and storing it into the body.

The human body is like a sponge, and the vital energy of heaven and earth in the air is like water vapor.

Put a sponge in humid air and let it get wet little by little. This is the normal practice process of Qi Gathering Realm.

What about taking pills?

That's like dripping water directly onto a sponge!

The effects of the two are completely on a different level.

"Ah." Gu Qingfeng suddenly sighed: "The Demon Suppression Bureau is too stingy. They only issued the Peiyuan Pill this time. If a Yellow-rank Demon Slayer wants to continue to obtain it, he can only continue to complete tasks, earn merits, and then use the merits to exchange."

Gu Qingfeng felt that the Demon Suppression Division did this on purpose. The reason they gave you one for free was to let you feel the effect.

After experiencing this, who would still want to practice in pain? I definitely want to continue taking pills.

Then you can only be an honest worker and work 996 hours a day to earn merits.

Speaking of 996, Gu Qingfeng suddenly remembered that it was time for him to go to work.

He is now a yellow-rank demon slayer, a full-fledged official. Today is his first day of reporting, and he cannot be late.

So Gu Qingfeng hurriedly packed up, put on the black fish robe, fastened the goose feather knife, hung up the demon-killing order, and then went out.

After jogging all the way, when he arrived at the place, Gu Qingfeng was dumbfounded.

I saw He Fenghua giving a lecture to several yellow-level demon hunters.

These Yellow-rank Demon Slayers are exactly the four newly promoted ones. Including Gu Qingfeng, there are exactly five of them in total, filling the vacancies of the previous Yellow-rank Demon Slayers.

Today is the first day of work, and the newly promoted Yellow-rank Demon Slayer naturally has to report to his superior.

But Gu Qingfeng didn't expect that his boss was actually He Fenghua!

According to the system of the Demon Suppression Bureau, one Xuan-level demon slayer leads five Huang-level demon slayers, so He Fenghua, who is a Xuan-level demon slayer, is naturally the leader of Gu Qingfeng and the other four.

After being stunned for a moment, Gu Qingfeng finally understood everything.

No wonder the referee of this competition was He Fenghua. It turned out that he replaced the deceased Xuan-level demon slayer Lord Yang. He presided over the competition in order to select subordinates for himself.

The other Xuan-level demon slayer teams are basically fully staffed, so all the newly promoted Huang-level demon slayers will be under He Fenghua's command.

This is bad. I have rejected He Fenghua twice. This old guy will definitely make things difficult for me!

For a moment, Gu Qingfeng stood at the door, not knowing whether to go in or not.

At this time, He Fenghua noticed Gu Qingfeng at the door and could not help but said coldly: "Gu Qingfeng, you were late on the first day of roll call. You have no rules. I will fine you one month's salary. I hope you will learn from this."

Gu Qingfeng got angry when he heard this. Damn it! I was fined one month's salary on my first day at work? So I can only work for a month for nothing!

If I hadn't obtained the twenty-four taels before, wouldn't I have been starving for the past month?

I was just thinking that He Fenghua would make things difficult for me, but the first sentence he said when they met was!

Gu Qingfeng was not the kind of person who would willingly accept being bullied, so he wanted to make some sarcastic remarks right away, but when his eyes swept across the sundial placed in the middle of the field, he suddenly felt at ease.

Pointing at the sundial, he said, "Who said I was late? I was almost there."

(A sundial is a device that uses the shadow cast by the sun to measure time.)

He Fenghua frowned and looked at the sundial, and found that the shadow pointer on it was indeed a little away from the hour of Mao.

He fell silent, just staring at the sundial silently, as if he was embarrassed by Gu Qingfeng's criticism.

Gu Qingfeng stood at the door and looked at the silent He Fenghua. He couldn't help but reveal a smug smile and thought to himself that he had finally saved a month's salary.

But who would have thought that the next second, He Fenghua suddenly raised her head, stared at Gu Qingfeng and said, "It's already the morning hour, and you haven't come in yet, so you are late."

Fuck you!

Gu Qingfeng exploded instantly. He looked at the sundial which had just arrived with an unpleasant expression, then looked at He Fenghua and cursed in his heart.

So you didn't say anything just to wait for the time to come?

"Haha, Lord He has such great official power!" Gu Qingfeng sneered.

As soon as these words came out, the expressions of the other several newly promoted yellow-level demon slayers all changed, and they looked at the rebellious Gu Qingfeng in surprise. They never expected that someone would be so bold as to contradict his boss on the first day at work. Although it was the boss who was looking for trouble first, one has to bow his head under the eaves.

Facing Gu Qingfeng's sneer, He Fenghua seemed very shrewd.

His face was calm and his tone was cold as he said, "I am just enforcing the law impartially."

"Hahaha." Gu Qingfeng suddenly laughed out loud: "What a fair and impartial law enforcement! I think you are abusing your power for personal gain and suppressing dissidents!"