Chapter Twelve: Refining the Golden Elixir

  "Xiao Hei, Hu Li... seems to be a cunning demon beast." Qin Yu's mouth slightly curved upwards as he looked at the purple-robed woman, his spiritual sense transmitting soundlessly. Qin Yu's spiritual sense suddenly discovered the true identity of this purple-robed woman.

  Xiao Hei's eagle eyes were like sharp arrows, staring straight at the enchanting purple-robed woman, and he also transmitted a message: "Hmph, a Golden Elixir early-stage fox spirit, killing her would be easy." After traveling through the Desolate Expanse for so long, Qin Yu and Xiao Hei had also become accustomed to its cruelty.

  Survival of the fittest, in the vast wilderness, various demons and beasts are ferocious, don't be deceived by their appearance, after all, demons can transform into human form and have the opportunity to decide their own appearance.

  "This young master, are you human?" The purple-robed woman blinked her bright, watery eyes, seemingly asking with some trepidation.

  Qin Yu suddenly smiled: "Miss, I am a human, you can call me Qin Gongzi, what's your name?" However, in his heart, he had a spark of interest and wanted to play with this little fox, wondering what she was up to.

  The woman in purple clothes smiled shyly and said, "I'm Yan Xue, I've never seen a person like you before, Qin Gongzi. Would I be lucky enough to invite you to rest at my place?" As she spoke, her bright eyes stared at Qin Yu with a plop-plop sound.

  "The girl invited me, I'm more than happy. Xiao Hei, go have some fun." Qin Yu said directly.

  Xiao Hei's eagle head nodded, and his spiritual sense transmitted a message to Qin Yu: "Big brother, this little fox is playing some kind of trick, be careful." Xiao Hei was a demon beast with 'inherited memory', although he was only in the early stages of the Golden Elixir, but his actual strength was comparable to that of a mid-stage Golden Elixir demon beast. Once he used the various mysterious attack methods from his inherited memories, even a late-stage Golden Elixir demon beast would be no match for him. What's there to fear from a little fox in the early stages of the Golden Elixir?

  "Very well, Master Qin, please follow me."

  Yan Xue turned and walked away, floating and moving quickly. Although the speed was fast, the flying action was indeed touching, just like now. Qin Yu and Xiao Hei easily followed Yan Xue, and after traveling dozens of miles, they arrived at their destination.

  These days, Qin Yu has been in a state of constant battle and killing, without any enjoyment. Now, he sees a very beautiful pavilion, which is made up of peach tree trunks. The surrounding area is a beautiful peach blossom forest.

  "Qin Gongzi, this is where my sister lives. My elder and second sisters should still be inside." Yan Xue's soft voice whispered in Qin Yu's ear.

  Qin Yu's eyebrows slightly raised, his spiritual awareness had already seen through the other two demon foxes in this residence, who should be the so-called big sister and second sister of Yan Xue. However, in terms of strength, the two demon foxes on the attic, one of them had already reached the middle stage of the Golden Elixir.

  "Big sister, second sister, I'm back with a guest!" Yan Xue called out in a slightly louder voice towards the attic.

  "Let's go in, Prince Qin." Yan Xue said with a smile, while at the same time two other stunning beauties walked out of the pavilion. One was a black-clad beauty who looked to be around thirty years old, exuding an air of mature elegance, and the other was a twenty-something-year-old girl with a seductive aura.

  The fox tribe is indeed extremely seductive.

  "Gentleman, please be at ease. I am Yanzi, and this is my second sister Yanlan, and this is my third sister Yanes. You must have recognized them already. It's rare for a human to come to our Peach Blossom Pavilion, isn't it? I'm overjoyed, please come in quickly."

  As she spoke, Yan Zi stretched out her hand and pulled Qin Yu, who did not resist, allowing Yan Zi to pull him along. Yan Zi's hands were like warm jade, conveying a subtle feeling. However, Qin Yu was completely unaffected.

  "This demon fox doesn't know what trick it's trying to play." Qin Yu secretly smiled to himself.

  Yan Zi suddenly glanced at Xiao Hei, a flash of light in her eyes, and then smiled: "Qin Gongzi, this eagle is quite ferocious. Is it one of the birds you've tamed?" Yan Zi's entire body leaned slightly against Qin Yu's arm as she spoke.

  "Recovered flying bird? No, he is my brother." Qin Yu's heart was extremely firm and the aura on the demon fox couldn't shake his true intentions.

  At the age of eight, he persisted in extreme training methods. Over the years, Qin Yu's temperament is not something that ordinary people can compare to. Moreover, when Qin Yu was disguised as "Meteor" for his assassination mission and drifted through the world, he had also been tempted by many women, but these were just child's play.

  Yan Zi smiled: "Second sister, third sister, quickly prepare tea and pastries."

  "Yes." Yan Xue and Yan Lan's gentle voices sounded, and then the sisters walked into the building like a gust of wind. Qin Yu followed Yan Zi into the living room and sat down on the chair.

  In a moment, Yan Xue and Yan Lan brought some pastries and tea.

  "This cake was made by me, Qin Gongzi, try some." Yan Xue handed a piece to Qin Yu's mouth, as if feeding him. Qin Yu took it with his hand and took a bite, and a burst of star power surged into his mouth, wrapping around the cake. It seemed like a fierce flame that incinerated the entire cake.

  Qin Yu's mouth corners rose with a hint of a smile.

  "What's 'Mí Hún Xiāng'?" Qin Yu stared at the three Yan sisters in front of him and asked with a smile.

  At this moment, the three sisters' faces changed slightly.

  At the same time, a pink fragrance emerged from the three sisters of Yan's family and filled the entire living room. Qin Yu waved his hand, and a strong gust of wind blew, but the fragrance still lingered in the living room, unaffected by the wind.

  "Qin Gongzi, your golden elixir can probably save my sisters and me from hundreds of years of bitter cultivation." Yan Ziyu smiled charmingly, and a white light shot out from her body, transforming into a huge white net that descended from the sky, directly covering Qin Yu and Xiao Hei.

  "Sisters, get ready to enjoy a big meal." Yanzi's three sisters' eyes shone with intense light as they stared at Qin Yu.

  "Xiao Hei, this time I'll take action!" Qin Yu's spiritual voice echoed in Xiao Hei's mind. As long as the Soul-Confusing Incense didn't enter his body, it was easy to deal with; once it entered his body, that would be disastrous. Qin Yu had been prepared for a long time and naturally wouldn't fall for it.

  "Alright, hurry up." Xiao Hei said helplessly.

  "Whoosh!"

  A dark golden lightning bolt suddenly tore through the entire living room space, directly piercing the white net. "Pong!" The white net split in two, and Yan Zi's face immediately turned pale. At the same time, she transmitted a spiritual message: "It's a mid-grade spirit artifact, sisters, let's go all out."

  Yan Zi was wrong, what can break open the lower-grade spiritual equipment is not necessarily a mid-grade spiritual equipment, it could also be a high-grade spiritual equipment or even an extreme-grade spiritual equipment. However, Yan Zi couldn't imagine that a Golden Dan period cultivator would have a high-grade spiritual equipment.

  Yan Xue and Yan Lan heard Yan Zi's transmission sound, and immediately rushed towards Qin Yu, but Qin Yu didn't attack the two of them at all.

  Only see——

  The dark golden flying sword shot towards Yan Zi like a needle, Yan Zi pulled out her waistband and the loose long gown slid down, what surprised people was that under Yan Zi's long gown was actually empty, Yan Zi's moving and charming body appeared naked in front of Qin Yu.

  The belt he pulled out suddenly transformed into a soft sword, which shot straight up and flew directly towards Qin Yu.

  "These cheap tricks."

  Qin Yu sneered and stretched out his hand, directly grasping the soft sword with one hand. His finger strength pierced through, and surprisingly, he broke the soft sword like that. The power of Yan Fei's punch had indeed reached the level of a top-grade spiritual artifact. At this moment, Yan Xue and Yan Lan attacked Qin Yu from both sides, almost simultaneously.

  "Eagle Claw!"

  Qin Yu's hands turned into eagle claws, and he didn't care about the weapons in Yan Xue and Yan Lan's hands. He directly grabbed their wrists, and his finger strength pierced through, disabling their wrists. Then, his eagle claws clenched into fists, and his fingers stabbed directly at Yan Xue and Yan Lan's foreheads.

  Yan Xue and Yan Lan then fell to the ground, after which they transformed into a fox.

  "Third sister, second sister!" Yan Zi shouted loudly and rushed towards Qin Yu. But what made Qin Yu stunned was that Yan Zi suddenly changed direction while rushing towards him, turned around abruptly and fled rapidly in another direction.

  "Run? You think you can outrun me?"

  Qin Yu was like a silent wind, and in an instant he arrived beside Yan Zi. When Yan Zi flew at high speed to escape, she turned her head back to take a look and secretly let out a breath: "That little guy didn't catch up." However, when she turned her head around, she saw that right in front of her was Qin Yu with a smiling face.

  "Ah!"

  Yan Zi immediately let out a scream at the highest decibel, Qin Yu heard that sharp cry and couldn't help but frown. Yan Zi's eyes flashed with cold light in an instant, her hand transformed into sharp claws stabbing towards Qin Yu. However, Qin Yu directly punched, shattering Yan Zi's sharp claws, and simultaneously struck Yan Zi's abdomen. Yan Zi's entire body shook violently, then collapsed to the ground, unable to get up, and transformed into a fox.

  "Three fox demons." Qin Yu's mouth had a hint of an indifferent smile.

  "Xiao Hei, the demonic beasts in the vast wilderness, regardless of their kind, mostly want to kill each other and swallow each other's golden elixir. These three demon foxes also wanted to kill us and snatch our golden elixirs." Qin Yu stretched out his hand, a flame burst forth, directly incinerating the fox corpse, and a golden elixir appeared before Qin Yu's eyes.

  Qin Yu made a gesture with his hand and directly stored it in the spatial ring, then flew back to the Peach Blossom Pavilion.

  Xiao Hei saw Qin Yu and transmitted his voice through spiritual awareness: "Big brother, this time the journey has not even progressed halfway, yet we've already killed several Golden Dan stage demon beasts. We didn't originally intend to kill them without reason. However, these demon beasts are just too ruthless, each one wanting to devour our Golden Dans. But their strength is too weak."

  "It's not that they're weak, it's just that their eyesight is too poor. Xiao Hei, the other two golden pellets are yours now. Let's find a secret place to refine them." Qin Yu said with a smile.

  Little Black's mouth opened, and two flashes of lightning shot out, directly hitting the two demon fox corpses. Two golden elixirs immediately flew out and were swallowed by Little Black in one gulp. He then said, "Big Brother, these two golden elixirs will probably take three days to refine. Let's go find a place first."

  Qin Yu and Xiao Hei each rode a hawk and quickly left Peach Blossom Pavilion.

  In the vast wilderness, monsters were killing each other to swallow each other's golden elixir or primordial infant to increase their strength. Of course, swallowing others' golden elixir also required sufficient strength. Yan Xue felt that Qin Yu and Xiao Hei's strengths were about the same as the early stage of the Golden Elixir, so she decided to take action.

  Alas, neither Qin Yu nor Xiao Hei can be judged by their appearance. Along the way, several demon beasts have already lost their golden elixirs due to underestimating Qin Yu and Xiao Hei.

  The night was cool as water, and the wild wind of the evening grew even more urgent. In a nameless mountain range in the wilderness, Qin Yu and Xiao Hei were inside a cave, with a simple illusion array set up at the entrance of the cave.

  Qin Yu sat cross-legged, the golden elixir floating in front of him. Suddenly, Qin Yu's eyes snapped open.

  Only to see Qin Yu's single hand pointing, a faint blue flame emerged from the tip of his finger, wrapping around the golden elixir. A "sizzling" sound was heard as the golden elixir was continuously scorched and eventually turned into strands of golden light that swirled around Qin Yu.

  "Hmm!"

  The air around Qin Yu was shocked, and the power of the pale silver stars suddenly burst out from his body, forming a huge whirlpool-shaped cloud. Qin Yu was in the center of this whirlpool, and the golden light transformed into a stream of energy that was wrapped by the massive whirlpool.

  The power of the pale silver star formed a cycle, wrapping the golden elixir energy into the dantian. In the dantian, there was also a nebula constantly rotating. However, at this moment, the true fire of the star in the center of the nebula was extremely fierce.

  "Hehe~~~"

  These golden energies, once entering the dantian, must first undergo a second tempering by the starry true fire.

  Burning!

  Ordinary demonic beasts directly swallow the golden elixir and then absorb its power for their own use. Qin Yu, however, was not like that; he always refined these golden elixirs repeatedly, eliminating all the strange and unusual powers, leaving behind only the most important essence of life for a cultivator.

  These most basic and essential powers were absorbed by Qin Yu, although after being tempered by the Starlight True Fire, the power of the Golden Elixir was wasted by 90%, however Qin Yu forever remembered a point that Lei Wei emphasized in "Starlight Transformation" - Purity!

  Strength must be pure, foundation must be solid!

  The star clouds in the field of Qin Yu Dan are constantly rotating, forming a whirlpool. Each circle of the whirlpool has a layer of silver particles, and each of these silver particles contains powerful energy. The purest energies that were finally refined were absorbed by these silver particles.

  A golden elixir is refined to ninety percent, and the remaining purest power is the cultivator's life essence.

  The golden light floating outside Qin Yu's body, every time Qin Yu refined it a little, Qin Yu was not in a hurry, this could not be rushed, for nearly three days and three nights, Qin Yu finally refined it completely clean and pure, fully absorbing it.

  Qin Yu opened his eyes and saw that Xiao Hei had already finished his cultivation on one side.

  "Big brother, have you successfully refined it? I just succeeded in refining mine too." Little Hei's spiritual sense transmission came through.

  Qin Yu smiled and nodded slightly.

  "Big brother, every time we absorb it takes a bit of time, but those demonic beasts swallowing golden pellets are really fast, however they're all just blindly gobbling them up, as if the more energy the better." Xiao Hei had a hint of disdain.

  Ordinary demonic beasts only know the most basic cultivation methods, what else do they know? How can they be compared to Xiao Hei, after all, Xiao Hei has many mysterious cultivation methods in his memory.

  "Xiao Hei, it's time to hit the road."

  Qin Yu's figure flashed and he directly rushed out of the cave, the illusionary array was dispelled with a wave of his hand, Xiao Hei also flapped its wings and flew out, this man and eagle continued their cultivation journey in the vast wilderness.