Chapter 38: High on Pills

Day turned to night.

Lin Fan was growing impatient. These people were flying back and forth like a patrol squad, and now he had to find the right moment to retreat.

A day later.

Only after confirming that everyone had left did Lin Fan carefully dig himself out.

He had to thank the system for hiding his cultivation, preventing his aura from leaking out, which allowed him to hide safely without being discovered.

The higher one's cultivation, the more sensitive they were to aura, but now no matter how high their cultivation, they absolutely could not sense him.

Through this incident, Lin Fan also deeply understood the vast gap between different realms.

If he had confronted those two Divine Entry experts head-on, he would probably have been blasted to nothing.

Take Senior Brother Yu Feng, a Seventh Heaven Xiantian—if not for the system upgrade that revived him at full health, he would have died long ago.

So, without absolute certainty, Lin Fan swore he would never again provoke someone far above his own cultivation.

…

Lin Fan patted the dirt off his clothes and sniffed his hand; the fragrance still lingered.

For a moment, Lin Fan felt intoxicated. Beautiful women were truly different—even after a whole day, the scent remained. Indeed, women were like perfume.

Set out, march toward the Great Yan Dynasty.

Lin Fan steeled himself, waved his hand grandly, and strode forward with big steps.

How far was the Great Yan Dynasty? Lin Fan had no idea, nor had he ever thought about it. He just charged ahead blindly—surely he would reach the end eventually.

Ding, congratulations, the Illusory Step has leveled up.

Oh? Leveled up?

Lin Fan was startled, then grinned happily. Others struggled to walk, but with the system, every step was experience.

The Illusory Step was a good movement technique, but it consumed quite a bit of true essence.

Now he only had 200 true essence, which Lin Fan found very unsatisfying. Using the Illusory Step for an hour cost ten points of true essence.

If he had to flee for his life, he could only sprint for twenty hours.

Moreover, once true essence was consumed, it wouldn't recover automatically without rest, which troubled Lin Fan greatly.

If he had known it would come to this, he would have learned some techniques as soon as he entered the outer sect.

Along the way, it was temporarily safe, so Lin Fan began to sort through the spoils he had confiscated.

Thinking about how he had tricked two Divine Entry experts, Lin Fan's heart still pounded fiercely—this was a once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity.

One was Seventh Heaven Divine Entry, the other Eighth Heaven Divine Entry—both were even more formidable than Senior Brother Meng Yangquan.

Lin Fan first checked Mo Yixuan's spatial ring. He had glanced at it before; there seemed to be quite a few things inside. He wondered what they were.

Ding, discovered a bottle of Profound-grade low-rank Profound Origin Pills *10.

Effect: After consumption, increases cultivation speed.

Consumption bonus: Experience +500,000.

Lin Fan was delighted. He hadn't expected Profound-grade pills. Not bad, not bad. At the same time, he realized that the experience gained from consuming pills depended on their effects.

Pills that enhanced cultivation naturally gave far more than healing or auxiliary pills.

A bottle of Profound Origin Pills contained only ten pills. Lin Fan popped them into his mouth like candy and crunched them down.

Ding, consumed ten Profound Origin Pills, Experience +500,000.

After finishing the pills, Lin Fan started searching again. There were quite a few types of pills—this haul was definitely not a loss; he had made a good profit.

Ding, discovered a bottle of Profound-grade low-rank Golden Crow Pills *5.

Effect: After consumption, heals injuries.

Consumption bonus: Experience +60,000.

Although Lin Fan had never seen top-grade pills, he understood the pill grades.

Saint-grade, Heaven-grade, Earth-grade, Profound-grade, Yellow-grade, Human-grade.

Profound-grade pills—their rank was high, yet not too high. Still, if it weren't for those two Divine Entry experts acting like delivery babies, getting Profound-grade pills would have been unlikely.

In the end, Lin Fan stopped caring. He simply shoved everything that looked like a pill into his mouth, not bothering to distinguish them one by one.

Ding, consumed five Golden Crow Pills, Experience +300,000.

Ding, consumed one Benefit Spirit Pill, Experience +100,000.

Ding, consumed ten Blood Spirit Pills, Experience +200,000.

…

By now, Lin Fan was addicted to pill-popping. He dumped everything from Ni Mantian's ring onto the ground, grabbed anything that looked like a pill, and stuffed it into his mouth.

Walking while stuffing his face was quite enjoyable.

Ding, consumed one Mixed Yuan Sword Pill, Experience +200,000.

Ding, consumed six Male-Female Great Pills, Experience +1,800.

…

Wait, what's going on? Lin Fan was happily popping pills when he suddenly noticed something wrong. Why was the experience gain so low? Was there a mistake?

These were supposed to be the entire belongings of Divine Entry experts—how could they have such low-grade pills?

Ding, Male-Female Great Pill.

Effect: Used during intercourse to temporarily prevent conception.

Ptooey, ptooey…

As soon as the pill entered his mouth, Lin Fan started spitting frantically.

Damn, I just swallowed a contraceptive pill!

What a scam! This pill was obviously Mo Yixuan's. A Divine Entry expert actually tricked me, a lowly Xiantian. One cannot be too Mo Yixuan—what a total scam!

Lin Fan snorted, but whatever—it still added over a thousand experience points. This time, he would forgive him.

After that, Lin Fan slowed down his pill consumption, carefully checking each one to avoid any more mishaps that would be utterly disastrous.

Ding, discovered Black Chicken White Phoenix Pills *10.

Effect: A pill for women during menstruation to nourish qi and enrich blood.

Consumption bonus: Experience +10,000.

When Lin Fan reached the last batch, he suddenly found this pill and his expression turned very strange.

This… this…

Oh well, it's still a tonic. Down the hatch.

Lin Fan didn't hesitate too long and directly swallowed the Black Chicken White Phoenix Pills. Ten thousand experience—he couldn't give that up.

Ding, consumed ten Black Chicken White Phoenix Pills, Experience +100,000.

After finishing all the pills, Lin Fan let out a burp. Satisfying, truly satisfying. Although the process had been a bit unpleasant, the results were solid.

Ding, congratulations, character has leveled up.

After swallowing the last pill, his character successfully leveled up.

He had advanced from Xiantian Second Heaven to Xiantian Third Heaven.

But Lin Fan was still not entirely satisfied. The Divine Entry experts had plenty of pills, but their grades were too low. After eating so many, he only went up one level.

Sigh…

Lin Fan shook his head, expressing helplessness.

If Mo Yixuan and Ni Mantian knew that Lin Fan had wasted their pills like this, they would definitely vomit blood and die. These pills were the fruits of their hard work.

Although they were already at the Divine Entry realm, some of these pills still had great effects on them.

Take the Profound Origin Pills, for instance. Though their grade wasn't high, their effect was very strong—they could double cultivation speed. The refining method wasn't difficult, but the ingredients were exceptionally hard to find and very precious.

Now, having been wasted by Lin Fan like this, it was truly heartbreaking.