The Hehuan Sect cultivates alchemy; my senior sister helps me refine alchemy throughout the world.

After eating the flower petals and lotus seeds, the scabs on Shen Yifei's body began to fall off.

The new skin is growing, and it looks pink and tender.

Leng Shanyue glanced at him sideways.

"Bai Lu, you men shed your skin even faster than you do."

Bai Lu retorted, "He sheds his human skin, you shed your face."

"I'm peeling off my face? I haven't even settled the score with you for those three scratches you gave me."

"The bite mark from when you bit my wrist is still there."

With a flick of its tail, Leng Shanyue splashed water droplets all over Bai Lu's face.

With a sweep of its tail, Bai Lu swept Leng Shanyue off the edge of the pool.

Leng Shanyue emerged from the water, soaking wet, her red dress clinging to her body, revealing her curves.

Bai Lu glanced at it and sneered, "So skinny as a mantis, yet you dare to get wet."

Leng Shanyue looked down at herself and said, "What do you know, you fat snake? This is called slender beauty."

"Skinny? You're more like a skeleton that's become a spirit."

With a flick of its tail, Leng Shanyue splashed water droplets all over Bai Lu's face.

Without even blinking, Bai Lu coiled the snake's tail around Leng Shanyue's ankle and lifted her upside down.

"Put me down!"

Bai Lu loosened her tail, and Leng Shan Yue fell onto the rocks by the pool, her nine tails turning into nine feather dusters.

Shen Yifei leaned against the stone wall, watching the two demon kings playfully fighting, his mind filled with the scene he had witnessed while unconscious.

In the days that followed, Shen Yifei recovered quickly under the care of the two demon kings.

Bai Lu goes to the mountains every day to hunt monsters, specifically targeting those in the Nascent Soul stage, and then drags them back to Shen Yifei to make soup.

Bear bile stewed with snow ginseng, deer antler stewed with lingzhi, tiger bone stewed with he shou wu—all are excellent ingredients for replenishing yang energy.

Shen Yifei drank so much that his nose bled three times a day, making him suspect that Bailu was trying to kill him.

"Miss Bai, my yang energy is already very strong, if I continue to supplement it, I'll explode."

"It won't explode. You have a strong constitution; the more you nourish yourself, the stronger you'll become." Bai Lu placed a bowl of tiger penis soup in front of him. "Drink it."

"What is this now?"

"Tiger penis".

Shen Yifei looked down at the thing in the bowl, his lips twitching several times.

"Miss Bai, is there something you're unhappy about with me?"

"No, I just want you to recover as soon as possible." Bai Lu said without changing her expression, "Only when you recover can we cultivate together."

"Dual cultivation?"

"Yes, without the Nine Heavens Mystic Lotus, I wouldn't be able to break through to the Mahayana stage."

Shen Yifei drank the tiger penis soup and wiped his mouth.

Bai Lu continued, "That little fox eats a lot of lotus seeds and is very likely to break through to the next level. I don't want to fall behind her."

Just then, Leng Shanyue walked in from outside.

"What did Fathead Snake cook for you this time?" She leaned closer to sniff. "Tiger penis? Bai Lu, do you want him to die fast enough? Tiger penis is something that will kill someone who can't handle strong tonics on the spot."

"He's not too weak to tolerate tonics; he needs to replenish his yang energy!"

Leng Shanyue squatted down and reached out to feel Shen Yifei's pulse. "Hmm, his yang energy is very abundant and needs to be released. If it's not released soon, he'll suffocate!"

"Senior Leng, could you please stop asking me if I'm dead the moment you walk in?"

"Alright, that's enough." Leng Shanyue stood up. "Bai Lu is giving you all this nourishment because she needs your help to break through her cultivation level, right? Such petty schemes, humph! Unsolicited favors always have ulterior motives!"

Bai Lu rolled her eyes at her.

"This is my man. I can use him however I want. If you're so capable, go find someone else and see how alluring your skinny frame is!"

Leng Shanyue was so speechless by Bai Lu's words that his tail practically stood on end.

"My ribs? I'm as graceful as a crane! Your meat, if cut off, could render three pots of oil."

"Refining oil is better than having something rough to hold. What's the difference between a man holding you and holding a bundle of firewood?"

"Firewood?" Leng Shanyue circled halfway around Shen Yifei, her nine tails swaying alluringly behind her. "Black Charcoal, tell me, am I prettier or is she prettier?"

Shen Yifei lay on the stone bed, looked at Leng Shanyue, then at Bai Lu, and grinned.

"Senior Leng, please don't make things difficult for me. My life was saved by Miss Bai."

"Pah!" Leng Shanyue flicked her tail. "I'm here to save you. Did I feed those petals to the dogs?"

Bai Lu placed the empty bowl on the stone table. "You gave me the flower petals to appease me, not to save him. Stop trying to glorify yourself."

"Trying to get rid of you? I'm just too lazy to get entangled with a fat snake like you."

"Can you outlast me? Every time it comes down to it, you're the one who ends up on the ground."

Leng Shanyue raised all nine of her tails at the same time. She took a deep breath, turned around and walked to the cave entrance, sat down on the stone bench, spreading her tails all over the ground, and ignored everyone.

Shen Yifei tried to get out of bed. After lying in bed for more than ten days, his bones felt weak. He slowly stood up, supporting himself against the stone wall, and Bai Lu reached out to help him.

"Can you walk?"

"Yes." Shen Yifei took two steps, his legs were still a little unsteady, but he was much stronger than the previous two days. He looked down and examined his dantian. The golden core was rotating steadily, and the deep crack had shrunk into a thin line that could not be found unless you looked closely.

Liu Mengli's voice echoed in his mind: "Master, you were lucky to escape with your life. The black flames burned away 70% of your meridians; anyone else would have been reduced to ashes long ago."

"I know."

"There's something wrong with the pills Leng Shanyue gave you."

Shen Yifei paused in his steps.

"What's the problem?"

"She mixed her own soul blood into it."

Shen Yifei glanced back at Leng Shanyue, who was squatting sulking at the cave entrance. The soul blood of a nine-tailed fox demon was more precious than the petals of the Nine Heavens Mystic Lotus. She said she didn't care whether he lived or died, but secretly she even gave him her soul blood.

Why did she do that?

"I don't know. Maybe it's because of Bailu, or maybe it's something else. Anyway, you owe her a life."

Shen Yifei didn't say anything more. He walked to the cave entrance and sat down next to Leng Shanyue.

"Thank you, Senior Leng."

Leng Shanyue glanced at him sideways. "What are you thanking me for?"

"Soul Blood".

Leng Shanyue's tail stiffened for a moment. She turned her head away, staring at the moonlight outside the cave, and whispered, "Don't tell Bai Lu. That fat-headed snake will nag me again if she finds out."

"Why are you giving it to me?"

"I find you pleasing to the eye." The red light at the tip of Leng Shanyue's tail flashed. "A piece of trash in the Golden Core stage dares to smash a Mahayana cultivator's head with a cauldron. That courage is somewhat similar to mine when I was young."

Shen Yifei chuckled, thinking to himself, "What kind of reason is that?"

Bai Lu's voice came from inside the cave: "What are you two whispering about outside?"

Leng Shanyue immediately stood up. "Who was talking to him? I came out for some fresh air. Your cave reeks of tiger penis; it's suffocating."

"If you don't like the smell, move out. The cold pond is yours, go back to your pond and squat there."

"I won't." Leng Shanyue plopped back down on the stone bench. "It's too deserted over there at the Cold Pool. I like staying here, what's it to you?"

Bai Lu came out carrying two bowls of soup. She handed one to Leng Shanyue, saying, "Drink this."

"What is it?"

"Snake gall and Ganoderma lucidum soup".

Leng Shanyue took the bowl, lowered his head to smell it, and frowned.

"Snake gall? You dug your own gall bladder out?"

"The old gallbladder wrapped inside my shed skin is useless to me." Bai Lu sat down next to her.

Leng Shanyue tilted his head back and gulped down the soup, then placed the empty bowl on the stone table. "Tomorrow I'll go hunt a bear and repay you with its gallbladder."

"Can bear bile be compared to snake bile?"

"Why can't they be compared? Bear bile is even bigger."

"Big? What good is big?"

Leng Shanyue glanced at Shen Yifei, then chuckled at Bai Lu, a smile that seemed rather malicious.

"Whether the big stuff works or not, don't you know?"