Chapter 632: Chapter 255: Your Assigned Opponent is Xiao Chen

The girl in purple nodded, satisfied. "Don’t mention it. I just can’t stand scammers."

Xiao Chen opened his mouth, but hesitated.

After a moment of silence, he offered his thanks and walked away.

Only the round-faced Cultivator remained, watching as all his customers scattered. He stood rooted to the spot, wanting to cry but having no tears.

’This... this... this... It’s just business. How can you call that a scam?’

He followed this with a silent tirade. ’What a meddling busybody! So unreasonable...’

"Huh? Why have you come back?"

His eyes suddenly widened when he saw Xiao Chen walking back.

"I’ll take twenty Demon Pills."

Xiao Chen picked up an empty Storage Bag, used his Divine Sense to move two hundred thousand Spirit Stones into it, and handed it over. "It’s all in there. Go ahead and count."

Since he was going to be on the island for a few more days, he couldn’t afford to slack off on his cultivation.

For him, absorbing Demon Pills was a quick way to condense True Essence. There was no need to wait half a year just to save some money.

As the saying goes: buy early, enjoy early; buy late, enjoy a discount.

The only reason he had walked away earlier was that he didn’t want to argue with the girl in purple.

"Thank you for your business!"

After counting the Spirit Stones, the round-faced Cultivator felt as if he had recovered something precious he thought he’d lost. He was ecstatic.

He even grabbed two extra Demon Pills and handed them to Xiao Chen. "Here, take these two as well. It’s on me—call it a buy-ten-get-one-free deal."

However, this scene did not escape the eyes of the girl in purple, who had turned back from a distance.

She had only gotten part of the way back when she suddenly realized that if she let that round-faced swindler continue to run his stall, other Cultivators would fall for his scam.

But she had her own business to attend to and couldn’t just stand there warning every Cultivator who passed by.

The best solution was to solve the problem at its source: run that swindler off the island.

And so, the girl in purple turned back, only to see the two of them making a deal from afar.

Instantly, she was fuming.

She stopped in her tracks and muttered under her breath, ’I clearly warned you, and you still sneak back to throw your money at a swindler!’

She shot Xiao Chen a sharp glare. ’Some people are just hopeless,’ she thought.

’Demon Pills aren’t some life-saving necessity. Can’t you really not wait six months?’

She suddenly recalled her Third Grand-Uncle’s teaching: "Some people just can’t hold on to their money."

"I know your heart is in the right place, but you can stop them today, not tomorrow. Just let them be."

The girl in purple now understood that sentiment completely.

’Forget tomorrow! It’s only been a moment, and a fool has already returned to hand over his Spirit Stones.’

The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. Staring at Xiao Chen, she muttered, ’Someone like you deserves to be scammed out of his Spirit Stones.’

’I’m done worrying about you people. If you fools want to get scammed, then go right ahead.’

With that, she simply turned and left, abandoning her plan to run off the round-faced Cultivator.

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On the south side of Red Flower Island, some enterprising Cultivators had already seized the opportunity to build and sell simple bamboo huts.

Each hut sold for just ten Spirit Stones, catering to Cultivators who were too busy running their stalls or simply too lazy to build their own shelters.

WHOOSH!

Inside one of the simple bamboo huts, Xiao Chen exhaled a stream of scorching white vapor.

The vapor traveled three feet from his body, remaining condensed and refusing to disperse.

It floated to the edge of the bamboo hut, only dissipating when it struck the Yan Character Return Grand Array and was neutralized by the formation.

Immediately after, Xiao Chen slowly opened his eyes, a smile gracing his lips. ’Just as I expected. The absorption speed is much faster.’

He had consumed Demon Pills before, back in Hundred Herbs City.

However, at that time, he could only absorb one per day to avoid excessively depleting his body’s Yang Qi.

Now, however, following his breakthrough to the Late-stage Golden Core in Body Refining, his Qi Blood had grown far denser and his Yang Qi much more abundant.

As a result, his speed when performing the Refinement of Mutated Demon Pills had naturally increased significantly.

The time required was cut down from the original six hours to just three.

Moreover, the benefits of his advancement in Body Refining didn’t stop there.

Because Xiao Chen’s Yang Qi was now so abundant, his recovery speed after completing the Refinement of the first Demon Pill had also doubled.

He was fully capable of continuing on to the Refinement of a second Mutated Demon Pill after a short rest.

In other words, he could now absorb two Mutated Demon Pills per day, increasing his reserves by a full six wisps of True Essence.

To put that into perspective...

An ordinary Early-stage Golden Core Cultivator would achieve roughly the same progress after an entire year of diligent training.

In other words, with the combined boost from the Demon Pills and his Augments...

...Xiao Chen could achieve a cultivation speed three hundred and sixty times faster than an ordinary Cultivator!

And keep in mind, this comparison was against *diligent* Cultivators.

Against those who only practiced for half the day, or those who were inconsistent with their training, a single day of his effort was equivalent to two years of theirs.

’Excellent!’

At this thought, Xiao Chen felt even more motivated. ’At this rate, it won’t be long before my Magic Cultivation also breaks through to the Late-stage Golden Core.’

’That is, if I can cultivate in continuous seclusion.’

’Before the Cangran Secret Realm opens, my Magic Cultivation should be able to reach the peak of the Middle Stage Golden Core.’

Of course, he was about to participate in the selections and arena challenges, so he definitely wouldn’t have that much time for cultivation.

But that would only delay him by a few days.

Conveniently, Xiao Chen was also planning to search for a Wood Element Dao Crystal inside the Cangran Secret Realm.

He had previously broken through a minor bottleneck with his Flawless Golden Core by using a Purple Gold Bodhi to comprehend a Dao Crystal.

When the time came, he could simply employ the same tactic again.

He could break through the minor bottleneck between the Middle Stage and Late-stage Golden Core on his Magic Cultivation path in one fell swoop.

’Unfortunately, in the upcoming arena challenges, I’ll definitely have to choose the Taiqing Infant Transformation Glaze Pearl.’

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