Super Soldier in the City

Chapter 2470 - 2534: Swallowing 5 Pills in a Row

As Li Yifei had anticipated, Su Lio fell unconscious right at the beginning, so when the Cold Qi erupted, she simply lost all signs of life. As for Li Yifei, within his limited consciousness, he desperately maintained the operation of the Dual Cultivation Technique, unable to think of anything else. The pain in his heart made Li Yifei feel a tendency to succumb to the Witch’s Worm because it was truly too painful, so painful that he couldn’t speak, not knowing how to describe it in words, and at this point, he couldn’t even attempt to describe it.Jiang Ningxiang was always prepared to intervene, ready to step in as soon as Li Yifei lost consciousness.

At this moment, Cold Qi continued to erupt from within Su Lio’s body. With the Dantian damaged, her naturally severed meridians were further broken, frozen. However, the Cold Qi seemed endless, erupting from different places.

This completely defies understanding. Where exactly is the Cold Qi coming from, and how can it generate so much out of thin air?

Li Yifei’s Extreme Yang Qi was limited; he couldn’t endlessly refine it and thus had to rely on medicine. Three minutes later, the effect of the first pill vanished, and Li Yifei quickly took the second one, throwing it into his mouth. Under the stimulation of True Qi, the second pill’s effect rapidly took hold, entering Li Yifei’s body and exerting its effect frantically. A painful and suppressed sound burst from Li Yifei’s mouth, which made Jiang Ningxiang want to cry. Her beloved man was enduring such pain at this moment, and yet she couldn’t help.

Outside, Yao Lingfu’s face was already livid, her clenched fist trembling incessantly. Everyone there was an expert, most capable of sensing the explosion of that power. She suddenly realized something and couldn’t help but say, "Have we underestimated the amount of Cold Qi?"

No response was needed, as Elder Su, Murong Yuanqing, and several others involved in devising the Dual Cultivation Technique all sensed it. It was like a bucket with two types of weights inside, the blue weight representing Cold, while the red weight represented Extreme Yang Qi. Now the blue weights were clearly more than the red ones, and the former continued to generate, while the latter were in a fixed quantity, making it obvious who was stronger or weaker.

Just as Yao Lingfu finished speaking, Li Yifei swallowed the second pill. Yao Lingfu’s expression changed dramatically. How long had it been since Li Yifei had taken the second pill? Has this child given up on life? The pills she refined were specialized for this Dual Cultivation session, with effects designed to be quick and intense. An average Innate Expert could only endure two pills, which Yao Lingfu had warned about. But Li Yifei swallowed two pills in such a short time; wouldn’t his body also explode?

Has he lost the will to live? Yao Lingfu felt a pang of heartache. In fact, Li Yifei could have withdrawn in the beginning, as the Dual Cultivation Technique had just started operating. At that moment, he should have judged the inherent dangers; knowing it was untenable yet going through with it wasn’t bravery but foolishness, stupidity!

Although Yao Lingfu understood Li Yifei, she didn’t agree with his actions this time. Unfortunately, it was already impossible to stop, as the event had already occurred and was ongoing. Moreover, no one knew what the outcome would be. Even worldly experts have many things they can’t prevent or change, such as the matters of the heroine decades ago, or the situation at hand. Elder Su was in great distress, closing his eyes and trembling slightly.

The women of the Li family, though not able to sense much, could guess something was amiss through the expressions and utterances of the surrounding experts, knowing things were likely not going well. Some women had already started to pray.

Su Mengxin clutched Xu Yingying’s hand, gritting her teeth.

In the room, Li Yifei had to clench his teeth so hard that they even cracked, the hardest bones in the human body were bitten to pieces, much more challenging than expected, and this was an indescribable sensation.

"Ningxiang, give me another one!" Li Yifei spat out a few broken teeth and said with difficulty. Jiang Ningxiang, startled, quickly picked up another pill but hesitated, saying, "Elder Yao said not to take too many."

"Quick! I can’t hold on any longer!" Li Yifei roared. This shout was heard by the experts outside, changing their expressions. Murong Yuanqing suddenly stood up, about to rush in when Elder Su grabbed and held him back.

"What are you doing? You old fool, why are you grabbing me?" Murong Yuanqing turned his head, glaring angrily and cursing.

"No, you can’t go in now!" Elder Su said coldly.

"To hell with you, that’s my disciple, the hope of this country. If he dies like this, I’ll fight you to the death." Murong Yuanqing shouted.

The women of the Li family were even more frightened when they heard this, turning pale. Some of the more fragile ones had already started to cry.

"Don’t cry; Yifei will be fine. He promised us!" Xu Yingying turned back and glared at the crying women.

"Murong, let’s wait a little longer; it won’t help if we go in," Yao Lingfu intervened, pulling Murong Yuanqing’s arm, trying to dissuade him.

"Sigh!" Murong Yuanqing sighed heavily, appearing very dejected.

After the third pill went down, the Extreme Yang Qi inside Li Yifei, already explosive, surged further, like pouring gasoline on a burning pile of coal, this act of adding fuel to the fire made Li Yifei’s body even more uncomfortable.

His vision darkened, seemingly about to lose consciousness. Jiang Ningxiang had been watching closely and reached out to help upon seeing Li Yifei like this.

"No, I can still do this!" After a few seconds of losing consciousness, Li Yifei awoke and stopped Jiang Ningxiang.

Jiang Ningxiang stepping in was merely a backup plan; ideally, the process would work best between the two of them. Thus, if Li Yifei could do it himself, he insisted on doing so for Su Lio’s sake.

Huff, huff, huff, continuous inhaling sounds, but no exhalation, as Li Yifei struggled to operate the technique.

Where the two met, Li Yifei also endured immense pain, as if the entire entity was breaking apart.

Ten minutes passed, with Li Yifei losing consciousness four times but quickly waking up each time. Jiang Ningxiang even advised, "Darling, just let yourself faint, I’ll continue."

"I... still... can!" Li Yifei croaked out a few words, forcefully closing his eyes. Cold energy surged into his meridians, but he mixed it with Extreme Yang Qi and redirected it into Su Lio’s body, like using a sieve to filter out the poison from the cold energy and return the purified energy to Su Lio.

Discard the impure and preserve the pure; Li Yifei was doing exactly this.

The Sky Yin Absolute Vein is considered an extremely peculiar physique, exceptionally rare among humans. Its origins are unknown, at least to Elder Su and others. They could only deduce it from birth date and time—a Yin hour, a Yin minute, a fate of Yin, and more. The source of the cold energy remains a mystery; once thought to be in the Dantian, but the Dantian has been destroyed, yet the cold energy continues to emanate, incredibly mystifying.

I can still do it! Though spoken softly, those outside heard it. Elder Su opened his eyes and looked at the window. Yao Lingfu took a breath, Murong Yuanqing grunted heavily and muttered, "Stupid kid, showing off."

The women of the Li family also heard it, thinking to themselves, "Things will be okay, definitely okay!"

Inside the room, Li Yifei wasn’t intentionally avoiding losing consciousness; it was simply impossible for him to faint. The Witch Worm inflicted the most severe penalty, causing such pain that even if Li Yifei passed out, he would instantly wake up and continue enduring this agony, endlessly repeated. So it wasn’t that he didn’t want to faint; he simply couldn’t.

The Witch Worm was being ruthless, but Li Yifei suddenly gained an insight: the Witch Worm seemed unable to kill him, or possibly couldn’t kill him—perhaps killing him would also lead to its own death, or maybe it lacked that ability. Ultimately, the Witch Worm only inflicted such punishment, but once Li Yifei gritted his teeth and endured, once he acclimated for a while, the pain became less intense.

However, he had already ingested three pills, exceeding the critical point. His body now incredibly hot, the blue and red weights in the bucket finally balanced, with the red gradually increasing, allowing Li Yifei’s technique operation speed to quicken.

The speed increased, but the pain intensified, as increased speed brought more cold energy.

Another five minutes passed; Li Yifei awoke once more from unconsciousness, disregarding everything else and said again, "Give me... one more, two!"

"Darling, no, you’ll be in danger."

"Quick, quick!" Li Yifei demanded, opening his mouth, spitting out a few teeth as if igniting sparks, his blood boiling hot. Jiang Ningxiang’s tears fell like rain, yet she couldn’t help but feed him the pills.

This time, Li Yifei asked for two at once, recklessly consuming five in total, far surpassing the quantity Yao Lingfu had mentioned. Thus, outside, Yao Lingfu could sense the explosion of Extreme Yang Qi, her face turned deathly pale, body shaking, disbelief filled her words, "He... he’s taken five pills; it’s over, it’s over, he’s taken too many, he’ll explode!"

"How could this happen? Wasn’t Jiang Ningxiang watching him? How could she let him take so many?" Murong Yuanqing sprang to his feet, eyes wide at the room. This time, he didn’t rush in, for once a pill is consumed, there’s no undoing it. Anything he does now is too late, merely watching as Li Yifei faces the risk of exploding.

In that moment, everyone’s heart outside sank, fearing within seconds, within dozens of seconds, he’ll explode.

Five pills, five immensely powerful pills, consumed by Li Yifei in a short period, and finally two at once, thus the transformation of Extreme Yang Qi made Li Yifei roar skywards, his voice echoed for miles, like thunder. The entire house seemed to tremble.

Inside the room, Jiang Ningxiang’s face turned deathly white. She desperately wanted to reach out, yet Li Yifei at this point was already speechless, looking like a man of fire. In fact, he had become a blaze, engulfing Su Lio entirely, and from the outside, Su Lio was no longer visible.