Starting as a stray dog, I embarked on a journey of cultivation.

"Brother Gou, I'm scared!"

At this moment, all Lai Pi wanted to do was find a place to hide.

Seeing his ridiculous behavior, Gou An was so angry that he grabbed him by the collar and threw him onto the open ground.

The rascal, who had fallen to the ground, finally realized something was wrong.

He looked down at his hands and feet, his face filled with terror, and cried out, "Brother Gou, what happened to me? How did I grow human claws?"

Seeing his erratic behavior, Gou An had no choice but to say, "Remember this day. From today onwards, you are no longer a dog, but a human being!"

"I'm a person now?" Lai Pi looked bewildered, clearly not understanding the situation.

"Yes!" Gou An nodded and continued to explain, "Your soul has been transferred into a human body..."

After Gou An's detailed explanation, Lai Pi nodded as if he understood, and his previous panic subsided.

"Brother Gou, does that mean I'm a transformed demon now?" Lai Pi was still a little unfamiliar with his body and was still used to lying on all fours on the ground.

He tried to stand up, but swayed and almost fell.

"Not a demon!" Gou An emphasized again, "but a human! A real human being."

Lai Pi looked down at his hands again, clearly still trying to understand what a real person is.

After a long while, he slowly began to speak:

"Once you become a human, does that mean you can no longer eat shit?"

Upon hearing this question, Gou An was speechless and barely managed to suppress the urge to rush up and beat him up.

"That's right! You can't eat it anymore!" Gou An walked up and pressed down on his shoulder, applying slight pressure: "Not only can you not eat it anymore, but don't even mention it to me!"

"Or I'll break your legs!"

"No, Brother Gou!" Lai Pi suddenly corrected, "I have human legs now!"

"I was just using a metaphor!" Gou An slapped his forehead, utterly speechless.

Finally, he simply stopped paying attention to him, turned around and walked to the decapitated corpse of Master Fuhai, and began to rummage through the body.

Master Fuhai was very clean, and had nothing else except a storage bag hidden in his chest.

However, the material of this storage bag felt far inferior to the bag that Gou An had previously picked up from a powerful cultivator.

Gou An opened the bag and reached inside, discovering many bottles and jars hidden inside.

When I took them out and opened them, I found all sorts of pills with different flavors.

However, these pills didn't smell nearly as good as the pills in the bags of the great cultivators.

On the contrary, there are all kinds of flavors, and they smell all kinds of different things.

Gou An frowned, stuffed all the pills back into his hands, and dared not try them lightly.

Besides the pills, Gou An also found something else in the storage bag.

When I took it out, I saw that it was an old-fashioned booklet.

The cover also had several large characters written on it.

"Miscellaneous Records of a Hundred Pills!"

Upon seeing this, Gou An immediately became interested.

Upon opening it, I was overjoyed.

This book is full of methods and recipes for making various elixirs.

And they all appear to be basic introductory pills, or pills that are not particularly complicated to refine.

Gou An then stuffed the booklet directly into his mouth storage space.

It's safer to keep such a good thing to yourself.

Gou An also stuffed those pills, along with the storage bag, into his mouth.

After doing all this, Gou An turned around and glanced at Lai Pi beside him.

The kid was on all fours, sniffing around, still acting like a dog.

"Stand up right now, what are you sniffing about?" Gou An snapped at him impatiently.

But who knew that upon hearing Gou An's words, Lai Pi actually sat down on the ground and burst into tears.

"Oh no, Gou-ge, I can't smell anything!"

"I'm useless!"

"What should we do...?"

Seeing his pathetic state, Gou An was at a loss for words.

Humans can't smell as keenly as dogs; there's nothing we can do about it.

But losing a keen sense of smell is a negligible loss for someone who can become human.

These principles are easy to understand if one is content with a simple life, but a scoundrel cannot grasp them.

We can only let him adapt on his own gradually.

"Stop fucking crying! Drag this corpse over and throw it into the well!"

As Gou An spoke, he pointed to a dry well in the corner of the wall not far away.

"Alright!" Seeing that Gou An was angry, Lai Pi didn't dare to continue being nagging. He had no choice but to stand up and, with unfamiliar steps, dragged the corpse of Fu Hai Dao Ren step by step toward the dry well.

After Lai Pi laboriously threw the body into the well, Gou An held Fu Hai Dao Ren's head and made a basketball shooting motion.

With a gentle toss, it swished through the net.

"Alright!" Gou An wiped the blood from his hands and said to Lai Pi, "Seal up the well for me, then wait for me in the yard!"

After saying this, Gou An turned around and headed towards the alchemy room behind him.

Inside the alchemy room, the furnace was still flickering with firelight.

It's obvious that some kind of elixir was made inside.

Gou An walked over and, through the cracks in the alchemy furnace, saw the scene inside.

A fiery red pill is suspended in the middle of the furnace, occasionally enveloped by wisps of flame, being refined in a regular manner.

Gou An sniffed and could tell that this pill was unusual.

It has absolutely none of the pungent smell found in those longevity pills and immortality pills.

It must be a good pill!

Presumably, this is what Master Fuhai planned to take to restore his strength and cultivation after successfully exchanging bodies.

But now this thing belongs to me!

Gou An chuckled, opened the furnace door, and took out the pills in one swift motion.

I held it to my nose again and smelled it, then examined it closely in front of my eyes.

Although, based on instinct, Gou An felt that the pill was not poisonous and could be eaten.

Out of caution, however, he still took out the Hundred Miscellaneous Records he had just obtained and flipped through the records of pills page by page.

Finally, on one of the pages, the details of the pill were indeed found.

This pill is called "Gathering Spirit and Replenishing Essence Pill". It is made by extracting the essence of a variety of rare spiritual herbs.

After taking it, one's cultivation level will increase; the medicine is mild.

Even cultivators at the Core Formation stage need to occasionally take such pills to improve their cultivation.

For cultivators in the Qi Refining stage, this kind of elixir is already a very precious thing.

Having confirmed that the pill was indeed safe, Gou An no longer hesitated and swallowed it in one gulp.

The elixir melts upon entering the mouth, instantly transforming into a warm current that flows into the body's meridians.

"This pill is so moisturizing!"

Gou An ate the food and his eyes lit up.

The demon core I ate earlier, and the pill I got from the hunter, both made me feel very hot and uncomfortable. It took a long time to digest them and recover.

But after taking this pill, I felt no discomfort whatsoever.

On the contrary, it felt like a long-awaited rain after a drought.

At the same time, Gou An closed his eyes, and the demon power value on the panel in his mind was also rapidly increasing.

Ultimately, this pill increased Gou An's demon power to over 3,200 points before stopping.

[Current Realm: Fifth Tier of Demon Beast]

[Demon Power Value: 5248/20000]

Even after deducting the demonic power that had been slowly accumulated, it still increased by more than four thousand points.

Gou An was very satisfied with the result.

So the decision was made immediately.

"I want to learn alchemy!"