"Roar!!"
A low roar echoed through the cat house, while the little Husky in the dog house just changed his position and continued sleeping.
He had been listening to this sound for a long time and was no longer surprised by it.
Du ke, who was on the cat tree, slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air, shook his body slightly, and his whole body crackled.
The pill the size of a rice grain allowed him to directly step into the level of Flesh Maturity.
This also proved that his idea of double refining the pill was correct, it's just that the efficacy of the pill refined by the black cauldron twice was dozens of times stronger than before being refined.
In addition, the efficacy was purer and more overbearing.
It was like swallowing a ball of fire into his throat, burning his whole body as if his bones and blood were about to boil.
Not only was the circulation efficiency of Qi and blood several times that of usual cultivation, it also allowed him to break through to the Flesh Maturity realm in one fell swoop.
"What is the difference in consumption between double refining pills for me and ordinary alchemy? What about triple refining, quadruple refining and more refining?"
Du ke thought to himself, and he couldn't help but look forward to it.
He immediately refined the pills he had previously absorbed into the black cauldron space respectively.
After the second refining, only four pills remained from dozens of pills.
Staring at the four rice-sized pills in the black cauldron space, Du ke gnashed his teeth, "More than thirty Blood Qi Pills, only four left after double refining."
"Is it because there is a problem with the Blood Qi Pill, or is it necessary to have multiple pills for double refining?"
Puzzled, Du ke did not forget about triple refining.
With a single thought, he was going to triple refine the pills in the black cauldron as usual, but this time the black cauldron did not react.
"Huh?"
Du ke blinked, "No reaction?"
"That’s not right!"
After trying it several times unsuccessfully, Du ke found that the black cauldron was still unresponsive, like a TV with dead battery.
"Does triple refining not exist, or is the current black cauldron simply unable to perform triple refining?"
Du ke squinted his eyes, looked around, jumped down from the cat tree, casually picked up a Night Illumination Pearl and put it into the black cauldron.
With a single thought, the Night Illumination Pearl was sucked into the black cauldron. Flames rolled and a pillar the size of a thumb, brighter than before, was spit out by the black cauldron.
Staring at the refined Night Illumination Pearl, Du ke immediately clicked his tongue.
"The black cauldron can still operate normally, but there is no reaction to triple refining at all. It should be that triple refining is not possible at this stage."
"Is it because of me, or the black cauldron itself?"
Just as Du ke was thinking, his ears suddenly moved. He got up from the carpet, came to the window,
squinted at what’s outside, and saw torches lighting up in the thick darkness, with vague silhouettes beginning to bustle about like ants.
"The servants of Langya Palace have already gotten up, which means there is less than half an hour before dawn!"
Du ke remembered that he was going to collect the Sun Essence at dawn to refine pills. He immediately ran out of his cat house and went into the maid's room instead.
He then used the balcony of Su Qiro's room to hook the eaves of the building and reached the top of the building.
Du ke stepped silently on the glazed tiles, walked to the top in a few steps, and looked eastward.
Among the essences of the sun and the moon, he had already refined the moon essence, and there were still two moonlight pills hanging in the black cauldron space.
The Moonlight Pill, which could only be refined once a month, had to be taken at planned times.
As for collecting Sun Essence to refine pills, there were not so many concerns.
After all, the full moon comes only once a month, while the sunrise occurs every day.
As long as he tested out the effect of the pills refined from the Sun Essence, he could refine and take one every day.
Squatting on top of the roof, Du ke silently waited for sunrise.
Time passed swiftly without a trace.
Half an hour went by in a flash, and the distant sky also revealed a touch of fish belly white. As time went by, that fish belly white in the east grew brighter and brighter.
At the same time, Du ke stared at the fish belly white without blinking.
The moment the first ray of light mixed with gold and purple shot out from the distant east, Du ke immediately activated the black cauldron space and collected this first ray of sunlight into the black cauldron.
The black cauldron space, studded with several pills, was suddenly illuminated by a beam of golden light. The bright, crystal clear golden glow was like a horizontal crystal in the black cauldron space.
However, the speed at which this first ray of sunlight dissipated was extremely fast, disappearing as quickly as it appeared.
Du ke had just collected a wisp when the fish belly white in the distance was also covered by the color of dawn, slowly disappearing without a trace.
With his mind sinking and his vision split into two halves, Du ke stared at the wisp of Sun Essence in the black cauldron space, unable to help splitting his mouth open.
"Success!"
However, he was in no hurry to refine pills now.
Who knows whether refining the Sun Essence would consume more of his strength? If all his strength was drained at once and he rolled off the roof, then all would be lost.
With a brisk pace, Du ke returned from the roof the same way, while a letter was also delivered to Su Xiuming's room.
"Master, a letter from Yunzhou!"
The guard in armor entered Su Xiuming’s room and placed a package on the table.
Su Xiuming, sitting cross-legged on the bed, opened his eyes, glanced at the package on the table, and said lightly: "Get out!"
"Yes!"
After the guard left, Su Xiuming beckoned at the package. The package floated up from the table, nestled towards Su Xiuming automatically.
Pak!
Using the package in hand, Su Xiuming slowly opened it.
There were not many things in the package, only a letter, a token, and a strange short knife.
After reading the letter, Su Xiuming's expression also changed slightly.
"How could it be so fast?"
Incredulously blurting out a sentence, Su Xiuming got up from the bed and paced around the room while brooding about something with a gloomy face.
After a while, Su Xiuming directly said, "Call the third, fifth and seventh brothers over!"
"Yes!"
The Black armored guards of the Su Residence who were on standby outside immediately went to call people. Su Xiuming took out the token and the short knife, threw them on the table.
"I just received a letter from Yunzhou saying that the old patriarch of the Yun Family is not going to make it and asked me to take my daughter to see him for the last time as soon as possible."
"Ah?"
Su Xiushan's eyes widened in surprise and disappointment, "So no fighting?"
"You reckless fool!"
The stony-faced man frowned and scolded. Su Xiushan glanced at the man and said dissatisfiedly, "Su Xiulin, I can say whatever I want. If you don’t like it, come and beat me!"
"Alright, fifth brother, eighth brother, don't argue. Let's hear what big brother has to say!"
Su Xiuwu spoke out to appease his two brothers. Su Xiuming took out the token and the knife, threw them on the table, and said,
"The token and the knife were sent along with the letter. I think the Yun Family is probably trying to get Qiro involved in the battle for succession of the Yun Family!"
"Battle for succession?"
Upon hearing this, Su Xiushan burst out laughing, "Well that's good news. If our girl becomes the eldest daughter of the Yun Family, our Su Family will become even more powerful."
"You reckless fool, you understand nothing!"
Su Xiulin scolded with disdain. Su Xiushan looked at Su Xiulin with bulging eyes. They stared at each other.
Su Xiuwu didn’t care about these two people either, he just said, "The Yun Family patriarch is about to embark on the journey to the west, it makes sense for our daughter as his granddaughter to see him for the last time."
"But this token and the knife..."
"The token and the knife were sent along with the letter. I'm afraid the trip may not be safe!"
"Big brother, what do you mean?"
Su Xiulin squinted his eyes and Su Xiuming slowly nodded his head.
"Preparations need to be made!"
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In Langya Palace's cat house.
At this moment, Du ke was gleefully looking at the pellet in his paws that resembled a golden pearl. This pellet had a lustrous golden hue, with a purple vein imprinted on its surface.
Merely holding it in his paws gave Du ke the illusion that his paw pads were being scorched.
At the same time, Du ke kept swallowing his saliva. Just one look at this pellet gave him the urge to devour it.
This urge stemmed from instinct, it stemmed from his bloodline, it stemmed from a subconscious call.
"Meow?!"
Husky poked his head out from the dog basket, curiously eyeing the pellet in Du ke's paw. With just one glance, the dog's eyes locked onto it. He dashed out from the basket towards Du ke.
With his mouth agape, the dog appeared attracted to the pellet and wanted to directly snatch and swallow it.
Noticing the dog's actions, Du ke lashed his tail to flip him over, then raised his paw and opened his mouth to swallow the medicinal pellet.
Gulp—widening his eyes, Du ke, who was still tasting it, suddenly let out a low growl.
"Meow!!"