"Why? Isn't it supposed to help me condense my vital energy?" Zu An asked hurriedly.
Mi Li said, "You practice the Phoenix Nirvana Scripture, the Primordial Chaos Scripture, and the Gluttonous Devouring Heaven Technique, which are supreme treasures. Your cultivation path is different from others. Haven't you noticed that it is more difficult for you to advance to the next level when you cultivate these divine skills?"
Hearing this, Zu'an's eyes immediately welled up with tears: "Finally, someone understands me! The protagonists in novels all have cheat codes that allow them to advance by leaps and bounds, but why is my cultivation like the tortoise and the hare race? — Well, ordinary cultivators are the hare, but I am..."
Mi Li said calmly, "Then haven't you noticed that your combat power is much stronger than others of the same level?"
Zuan was taken aback. It seemed so. He had never understood the reason behind it all along.
Mi Li said, "Although I was asleep during this time, I was also thinking about your problem. Now I roughly understand why your cultivation is so slow and why you need far more Yuan Qi to level up than others. It's because you started automatically condensing and refining Yuan Qi very early on. Unlike ordinary people who condense it into liquid or solid forms, your Yuan Qi exists in a state that I can't understand. In other words, you did things that others only do when they are at the peak of the seventh, eighth, or ninth rank... while ordinary people are stuck at these thresholds for many years, or even a lifetime."
Zuan: "..."
Mi Li continued, "Moreover, from my observation, the strength and quality of your condensed vital energy surpasses that of a Grandmaster, or even a Great Grandmaster."
Zuan raised an eyebrow: "Finally, that feels good. Is there any more? Keep praising me."
Mi Li snorted: "Don't be so smug. Although the quality of your vital energy surpasses theirs, the quantity and realm are still far behind. It wouldn't be difficult for them to crush you."
Zuan looked annoyed: "You're so mean."
He then took out the remaining Gathering Yuan Pill: "Sigh, I've worked so hard to refine it for so long, only to find it's a useless thing."
The thought of wasting so many materials and the huge hopes he had initially held made him feel incredibly frustrated.
“That’s not necessarily true. You may not need this pill, but someone else might,” Mi Li said.
"Who? You?" Zu An immediately dismissed the thought. Mi Li was now a soul, and even if she were a physical body, with her cultivation level, she should have already passed the period when she needed the Gathering Yuan Pill.
It's really a bit curious, isn't it? She's clearly a spirit, so why can she wear clothes and a dress?
You should know that the red dress she's wearing right now was bought by him, and there are many similar beautiful dresses in the Glass Pearl.
"Where are you looking?" Mi Li glared at him irritably, then continued, "Look, that vixen might need it."
Zuan was taken aback. Following her gaze, he saw Daji sitting beside the medicine furnace.
She already possessed a stunningly beautiful face, and now, sitting there quietly, her white dress made her appear even more ladylike and ethereal.
"I really didn't expect that such a devastatingly beautiful woman, who could bring ruin to a country, would be as pure as a little white flower." Even Mi Li had the same exclamation.
Zu An came to his senses: "The Gathering Yuan Pill works on her?"
“We can give it a try.” Mi Li came to Daji’s side, her phoenix eyes filled with curiosity.
You see, she had originally wanted to temporarily borrow Daji's body, but she couldn't get in. So she was very curious about what form Daji was in now.
Zu An gazed at the two women before him, one in a fiery red dress, the other in flowing white robes, their beauty complementing each other, truly a sight to behold.
He went to Daji's side and gave her the Gathering Essence Pill. Watching her slightly parted red lips as she swallowed gently, he couldn't help but swallow hard. A peerless enchantress is a peerless enchantress; even without regaining her senses, she is still so captivating.
"Beast." His swallowing motion clearly did not escape the notice of Mi Li, who snorted disdainfully.
Zuan's face flushed, and he was about to say something when he suddenly froze, because a line of text appeared on the virtual screen of the keyboard in his mind:
"Valkyrie skill upgrade materials detected..."
Zuan was taken aback and quickly began to read carefully. He then discovered that Daji's three skills, "Heavenly Demon's Enchanting Voice," "Fox Charm of the World," and "Nine-Tailed Fox," could be upgraded. Initially, they were only level 1, but as the level increased, the power of each skill also increased.
"Why does this feel so similar to some games?" Zuan complained. In his previous life, he was a keyboard warrior and nerd who played a lot of games, so he was naturally very familiar with this kind of setting.
He glanced at it and saw that each skill had ten levels, and the materials required for each level up were the same, so the first thing to consider was which skill to level up first.
After all, he didn't have enough resources to spread his influence evenly. His experience playing games in his previous life taught him that spreading influence evenly would only result in mediocre performance in everything.
He carefully examined the materials required for the upgrade, and his expression became somewhat strange.
Upgrading a skill from level one to level two requires three materials: two Gathering Yuan Pills, four dragon scales, and ten thousand taels of silver.
Zaun couldn't help but complain, "This system is such a rip-off! Why do I need silver to upgrade my skills?!"
Although 10,000 taels is not much for him now, it is certain that as his level increases, the amount of silver he needs will increase significantly.
In my past life, I was scammed by countless game developers. Every time I played a game, the resources I needed most were these, which eventually forced me to spend money on in-game purchases.
As for the four dragon scales, that's quite a coincidence. He may not have much else, but he has plenty of dragon scales. Whether it was the red dragon in Bright Moon City or the old dragon who chased him on the way to the capital, their corpses are still stored in the Glazed Pearl. He hasn't figured out how to make full use of them yet, but now they've finally found a home.
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