Qi An also found that the resistance of the Spirit Devouring True Qi to the Xuanyuan Pill was much smaller than that of the Qi Nourishing Pill, and swallowing a hundred pills of the Xuanyuan Pill reduced the medicinal power by one percent.

Thinking about it carefully, the reason for this cannot be guessed, probably because the materials used in Xuanyuan Dan are better and the refining techniques are more exquisite, resulting in higher quality of the pill, fewer impurities, and more refined medicinal power, and the resistance of the Spirit Devouring True Qi to it is much smaller.

This is like when people eat, if they eat those foods that are not clean and have no nutrients for a long time, it will affect appetite, indigestion, accumulate toxins, and cause the body to get worse and worse;

Soul Devouring Demon Fire is also a picky eater like humans, eating more when it encounters something delicious, and eating less when it encounters something undelicious.

When these hundred Xuanyuan Pills were consumed, the Soul Devouring True Qi in Qi An's body had grown a lot, and it was even close to breaking through the middle stage of condensation.

This was an unexpected joy, if Qi An was allowed to slowly cultivate on his own, it would take at least several years to improve from the early stage of Qi Condensation to the middle stage of Qi Condensation. This still allowed him to concentrate on refining qi, and if he put his body refining aside, if he refining his body and refining qi again, this time might be doubled, but he didn't expect that just by absorbing more than two hundred pills, the soul devouring true qi would grow to the point where he was about to break through.

But Qi An didn't want to think about how huge the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi contained in all these pills would be, at least equivalent to the total amount of True Qi accumulated by the monks in the early stage of Qi Condensation's retreat and penance for several years.

To calculate it simply, the true qi content of a Yuan Bead is about to require a monk in the early stage of Qi Condensation to practice for a whole day, and the amount of Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi contained in a pill of Qi Nourishing Pill is about three times that of a Yuan Pearl, and the medicinal effect of a pill of Xuanyuan Pill is three times that of a pill of Qi Nourishing Pill, that is to say, after the absorption of a pill of Qi Nourishing Pill is equivalent to the monk in the early stage of Qi Condensation who cultivates without sleep for three days and nights, and the absorption of a pill of Xuanyuan Pill is equivalent to the monk in the early stage of Qi Condensation who cultivates without sleep for nine days and nights.

So, if the medicinal power of one hundred and fifty-six Qi Nourishing Pills and one hundred Xuanyuan Pills were all absorbed, how much would it add up?

The answer is 1,368 days and nights, almost four years, and he has been in retreat all the time.

It's impossible to stay awake, and I believe that no one can do it, even if the body can support it, but mentally can't persevere.

If you only spend half of your day cultivating, and the other half of your time resting, or doing something else, that's nearly eight years, and if you remove some of the medicinal power caused by drug resistance, it's at least more than seven years.

Seven years is such a long time, not to mention from the early stage of Qi Condensation to the middle stage of Qi Condensation, it is enough to cultivate to the late stage of Qi Condensation, that is, because Qi An's Spirit Devouring True Qi is relatively special, and it needs to absorb and refine several times more Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi than others in order to improve the realm, and it is necessary to consume so many pills.

What's more, the value of these pills is also very high, ten bottles of Xuanyuan Pill plus ten bottles of Qi Nourishing Pill cost three thousand yuan beads, plus five and a half bottles of Qi Nourishing Pill stored in Huachen's storage bag, a total of three thousand two hundred and eighty yuan beads, how many beast demons do you have to hunt to earn so much?

When they were in Zhishui County, Qi'an sold an ape-headed iron-backed bear for 3,000 yuan beads, but this was someone buying it at a high price, and under normal circumstances, the average market price of the ape-headed ironback bear was about 2,000 yuan beads.

But don't forget, the Ape Head Ironback Bear is a top-level beast demon, which is equivalent to the strength of a peak Qi Condensation monk, and it is impossible for a Qi Condensation Early-stage monk to hunt down a top-level beast demon to earn Yuan Zhu, right?

With the strength of the early stage of Qi Condensation, at most, he could only hunt low-level beast demons, and he didn't dare to say that he was absolutely safe, and he could be injured or killed at any time. And a low-level beast demon can only sell a few yuan beads, if you want to make up enough for three thousand two hundred and eighty yuan beads, you probably need to hunt about a thousand low-level beast demons, and it will take three years to kill one a day, I can't think of it.

Therefore, relying entirely on the cultivation of pills, the vast majority of monks in this world cannot afford to play, and the resources consumed are unimaginable, and most of the poor monks who have no roots and no bottom can only honestly spend a lot of time meditating on luck and retreating for penance.

The four elements of practice, wealth and law are the first.

What is wealth? It is a variety of spiritual resources.

If you have abundant resources, you will be able to practice quickly.

It's like the saying goes, "Money is easy to do" and "Money can make ghosts grind".

Don't look at Qi An's decision to break through to the middle stage of condensation so quickly, but it took a lot of resources to get it.

Even so, it was also appalling, it would take some time for others to take the pill to refine, but Qi An directly devoured it with the Spirit Devouring True Qi, omitting the refining process, and the results were immediate and instantaneous, and its efficiency was staggeringly fast.

Seeing that he was about to break through, Qi An was so anxious that he couldn't wait to buy a little Xuanyuan Dan right away, and break through to the middle stage of condensation in one go.

However, when he was about to go out, Qi An suddenly thought that the Yuan Zhu also contained the true qi injected by others, so it was better to directly swallow the true qi in the Yuan Zhu to break through, and it would save him this trip.

In fact, although a cultivator can improve his cultivation by absorbing the true qi in the Yuan Zhu, few people do so, because the Yuan Zhu is artificially made, the maker is different, and the Yuan Zhu produced is not the same, the nature of the True Qi can be described as varied, strange, and all kinds of attributes are available, and the absorber also needs to spend time and energy to refine and transform it in order to be able to integrate with his own True Qi.

There will be a certain amount of loss in this process, as little as one or two percent, as many as three or four percent, and even more than fifty percent, so cultivators usually prefer to buy pills with Yuan Zhu, and then take pills to assist in cultivation.

This is because the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi contained in the pill is more neutral, more conducive to absorption, and the refining efficiency is also faster, although it has the negative impact of drug resistance, as long as it is not swallowed in large quantities, the transformation loss caused by absorbing the Yuan Bead is still much smaller.

It is precisely because of this that the pill is more popular than the Yuan Pearl, otherwise everyone would have cultivated directly with the Yuan Pearl, how could there be a market for the pill?

Of course, if you encounter a Yuan Zhu that is quite consistent with your own exercise attributes, it is also a good choice to directly absorb the true qi in it for cultivation, so there is a Wantong Money Bank in the world, which specializes in providing exchange services for Yuan Zhu.

But even if it is an exercise of the same attribute, the true qi cultivated will be slightly different, it is impossible to be exactly the same, it still takes a little time to convert, and the loss will naturally exist, but it is much better than absorbing the true qi of different attributes.

But Qi An is different, the Soul Devouring True Qi in his body is formed by the Spirit Devouring Demon Fire, which can devour the True Qi of all attributes, and the richer the variety, the better the absorption effect.

Each elixir is refined with the same formula, the ingredients of the medicine are almost identical, and the medicinal power produced after swallowing is the same, and it is the same taste, but the true qi in the Yuan Zhu is different, as long as it is not the Yuan Zhu made by the same monk, the true qi in it will definitely be different.

Therefore, the Soul Devouring True Qi devouring the Yuan Bead will not produce resistance, which means that there is no loss, and there is no need to refine and convert, just need to grasp the Yuan Bead with your hands and guide the True Qi contained in it into the body, and you can be devoured by the Soul Devouring True Qi in the body, just like the power of the Devouring Pill, it directly improves the cultivation, and its effect is even better than taking the Pill.

Qi An only absorbed more than two hundred Yuan Beads, and then he successfully broke through and stepped into the middle stage of the Qi Condensation Realm in one fell swoop.

There is almost no bottleneck in the promotion of the small realm, and when the cultivation is accumulated, it will naturally be able to break through, unlike the leap of the big realm, which also requires chance or understanding.

Since using Yuanzhu to cultivate, Qi An has found that cultivating with pills is simply a waste, not to mention the price of pills, there is also resistance, but Yuanzhu is different, the disadvantages of using Yuanzhu to cultivate are completely non-existent for Qi An, neither need to spend time to transform, nor do they have any loss, so for him, the cost performance of pills is not even half of Yuanzhu.

Qi An was also helpless, he had known what kind of pill to buy like this, just use the Yuan Zhu to cultivate directly, and he could save a lot of Yuan Zhu, after he tossed it like this, there were only more than 200 Yuan Beads left in the more than 3,000 Yuan Beads, which shrank more than ten times.

But the joy of promotion soon made Qi An forget these unhappiness, all the basic abilities of the body will be increased to a certain extent due to the improvement of the realm, and now his qi refining realm is completely synchronized with the body refining realm, both are in the middle stage of qi condensation, and the soul devouring true qi can also play a powerful role independently of the physical power, and will no longer only be reduced to the auxiliary of the physical power, if the two can be effectively superimposed, it will be stronger.

There are very few body refining cultivators in the world, and a monk like Qi An who refines both body and qi is even more unique, the main reason is that it consumes too much time and energy, and the cost performance is extremely low, just like the truth that greed can't chew more, the more you learn, the more scattered your energy is, and the more difficult it is to improve your realm.

Qi An was also forced to refine both his body and qi, his earliest plan was to prepare to cultivate the [Seven Absolute Sword Technique] normally and promote to the Qi Condensation Realm, but he was forced to embark on the road of refining his body because the Soul Devouring Demon Fire occupied the dantian, and later because he accidentally ate the strange fruit, he evolved the Soul Devouring Demon Fire into a Soul Devouring Cyclone by mistake, resulting in the dual cultivation of gas and becoming what it is now.

Fortunately, the Spirit Devouring Demon Fire can cultivate on its own, and it can also quickly devour the pill and the Yuan Zhu to grow and improve, so Qi An's cultivation focus is still intended to be on the refining side, because the improvement of the refining realm can only be achieved through his own penance, and it is good to follow the fate in terms of refining qi, and when the cultivation of the refining side is to the extreme in the future, he really can't find a follow-up refining technique, and then he will focus on refining qi, so that he can have one more way back.