boyutpedia #162 - Next, I'll have to trouble you to take care of me, your big brother!
#162 - Next, I'll have to trouble you to take care of me, your big brother!
"How do you feel?"
"The Replenishing Heaven Pill contains immense spiritual power, and its medicinal strength is extremely potent."
"Can you handle it?"
Ling Xiao frowned, repeatedly asking.
Ling Yunzi also said, "If you can't bear it, don't force yourself."
This was their way of offering help.
Indeed, people aren't made of wood or stone; who can be without feelings?
Living together, day in and day out, even if they weren't inseparable and sometimes even fought, their overall interactions were generally pleasant.
Especially on the path of cultivation, being able to keep pace with each other was a form of mutual support.
This younger sister, the Empress who wanted to use this old man as a beast of burden, and this younger brother, Dao Lord, who wanted to reserve a spot for this old man in his Myriad Souls Banner, still have a bit of humanity.
"Haha! I was just kidding, I didn't..." Seeing their expressions, Xu Chengxian wanted to say that he was just playing a joke on them.
Who just shoves anything directly into their mouth?
That would be idiotic!
He wasn't some little kid in the oral stage anymore.
Besides, even if he didn't know the medicinal properties of the Replenishing Heaven Pill, just the grand name of 'Replenishing Heaven' was enough to know it wasn't something to be eaten carelessly.
Swallowing demon cores in the past was out of necessity.
Under normal circumstances, who would be tired of living and seek death?
In reality, Xu Chengxian still very much wanted to live well.
Moreover, the days after transmigrating had been quite comfortable and happy for him.
So why seek death?
It couldn't be compared to his previous life, but this completely new experience wasn't bad.
Living from the perspective of a snake demon was something he had never imagined; it was a very novel way of life.
The reason he was unwilling to transform from a snake into a human so quickly was that he didn't want to return to his original framework.
Becoming human would inevitably subject him to the influence of his previous constraints.
Although he couldn't completely avoid his former moral standards and codes of conduct even now, at least his snake form allowed him to integrate more into the demon race.
He was very interested in continuing to live like this.
To see what kind of life he could live out in this life.
Perhaps when he went to the Eastern Lands of the Human Realm, he would transform into a human and, from a human perspective, observe the human race there.
Then, he would go to the Heavenly Realm for a stroll.
Therefore, he would definitely not actively seek death.
Taking a pill that a Demon King casually offered, one that sounded very extraordinary, without any precautions, and shoving it into his mouth to refine was undoubtedly an act of actively seeking death.
From the moment he awakened his innate divine power—Devouring Qi to Transform Blood—his intestines and stomach had been the most resilient part of his body.
After that, it was further upgraded by the system with a massive amount of blood essence, eventually evolving into the innate divine power—Devouring and Refining.
Everything started from his intestines and stomach.
From the initial devouring of demon beasts to the devouring of demon cores, and now swallowing the demon core of a Great Demon.
—The reason he couldn't swallow and completely refine the demon core of a Great Demon for a long time was that his demon body and spiritual sea of consciousness couldn't withstand the impact of such a massive amount of power in a short time.
Not because his divine power couldn't do it.
Of course, whether it could be done or not remained to be discussed and verified.
But one thing was certain: his stomach, as a container to hold the demon core and use blood essence to wrap and retain the Great Demon's demon core within it, was definitely not a problem.
He could lick through the lightning fire of tribulation!
The thunder of the tribulation hadn't been able to burn through his stomach.
In fact, Xu Chengxian's intuition told him that as long as he had enough blood essence, he could seal more than one Great Demon's demon core within his stomach.
The troublesome part of sealing a demon core was that it would constantly dissipate demon power.
To prevent this, he needed to mobilize an extremely large amount of blood essence—which would affect his battle with opponents.
In previous duels, the goal was to win and take as much advantage as possible.
Not to keep the demon core.
So, if the situation were different.
If he could escape during a battle.
Xu Chengxian would definitely choose to swallow the demon core, wrap it in blood essence, and quickly flee the battlefield.
He would refine the demon core and then return to fight.
But the Replenishing Heaven Pill didn't have this problem.
The medicinal aura emitted by the pill was very gentle and slow.
A portion of his blood essence was enough to handle it.
Putting the pill in his stomach and isolating it with a portion of his blood essence was the safest storage method.
Moreover, his intestines and stomach were within his snake body, where his blood essence could reach the fastest.
Xu Chengxian's greatest strength right now, something others couldn't compare to, was this blood essence—blood essence exceeding what a normal Great Demon realm cultivator should have.
It was just that the demon race was used to treating blood essence as the lowest-level form of power in their magic, so they overlooked it.
And he had another advantage, stronger than all Great Demons.
—The power of blood essence he could mobilize in an instant!
This gave him a great advantage in battle.
It was like two strong men, both weighing two hundred pounds, one able to punch with a hundred and fifty pounds of force, and the other able to punch with a hundred pounds of force, but able to throw ten punches with the same force.
So, if the two were to exchange punches, trading injuries for injuries, who would win?
Of course, it would be the former!
Because his one punch might have already killed the latter!
And the latter would have no chance to throw the other nine punches, ending up smiling in the Yellow Springs.
But what about Xu Chengxian?
Not only could he punch with a hundred and fifty pounds of force, but he could also throw punches with the same force repeatedly, not just nine times.
Therefore, he chose to put the Replenishing Heaven Pill given by the Demon King into his stomach.
To ensure its safety in his stomach.
Of course, he also took the opportunity to play a harmless joke with his younger sister and brother.
It wouldn't be lively without talking and laughing.
Recently, for more than two months, Ling Xiao and Ling Yunzi had been busy with cultivation and alchemy, both seeming somewhat tense and anxious.
As the eldest brother, he had to pay attention to adjusting the atmosphere and caring for their mental health.
—The latter sentence was purely nonsense; he just wanted to play.
So why did his explanation stop halfway?
Because…
[Ding!]
[Congratulations to the host for swallowing a Replenishing Spirit Pill!]
[Refining will grant 30 to 40 million units of blood essence!]
[The host's physical and spiritual realm will also increase accordingly!]
[Congratulations to the host for obtaining the task of completely refining a sub-top-grade pill. Completing the task will grant 8 refinement points and the Dragon Breeding Technique * 1]
[Would you like to begin devouring and refining now?]
"…I can refine it?" Xu Chengxian thought to himself, "Will there be any danger?"
[Please note, Host!]
[Due to the need to mobilize an extremely large amount of blood essence when refining the Replenishing Heaven Pill!]
[Please be sure to shrink your physical body to the limit of the Great Lesser Divine Ability Transformation. If necessary, you will need to enter a state of suspended animation for the first three days.]
[The system will also activate concealment of the host's aura.]
"…Oh."
[Would you like to begin refining, Host?]
"Refine," Xu Chengxian responded mentally.
Then, he turned to his good sister and good brother, who were looking at him with puzzled eyes because he had stopped talking halfway, and gave them a shameless smile.
"My dear sister and brother."
"Next, I'll have to trouble you to take care of your big brother."