Chapter 176: Grade 4 spirit refining pill

"It is nothing!" Qin Ming smiled and said, "Are our Qin Family and the Ouyang Family not allies? Allies should help and watch over each other."

"Yes!" Ouyang Xiaoxiao also said happily, "I feel that the most correct thing my father has done in this life is to form an alliance with the Qin Family."

"It is also our Qin Family's good fortune to form an alliance with your Ouyang Family." Qin Ming laughed heartily and said, "Then I shall return. There are still many matters in the Qin Family waiting for me to handle!"

He had not yet finished his daily Cultivate! There was no time to chat here.

"Mm!" Ouyang Xiaoxiao nodded heavily and said, "Go and attend to your business. I will not see you off."

Watching Qin Ming's figure slowly recede into the distance, Ouyang Xiaoxiao could not help but become a bit dazed for a moment.

At her most perilous and helpless moment, it was Qin Ming who saved her father and rescued her Ouyang Family.

A perfect quality detoxification pill—how precious that was!

Yet, the Qin Family had allowed her father to use it without asking for anything in return.

How could such immense kindness and virtue not be etched into her heart?

After returning to the City Lord's Mansion, Qin Ming went straight to his bedroom.

The Qin Family only had some finishing touches to attend to, and he believed his father could handle them properly. His main priority now was to Cultivate and develop the Sect he had just established.

Qin Ming sat cross-legged on the cushion and began his daily Cultivate.

Today, he prepared to try using a Grade 4 spirit gathering pill. Using a perfect quality qi gathering pill to Cultivate could not reach the speed he desired at all.

As one progressed higher in the Martial Master Realm, more Spiritual Qi was required. Judging by the Spiritual Qi provided by the perfect quality qi gathering pill, he estimated he would remain in the Martial Master Realm for a year.

For Qin Ming, this was too slow.

If he stayed in the Martial Master Realm for a year, then he would have to stay in the Great Martial Master Realm for five years, and the Martial Ancestor Realm for twenty years. He could not afford to wait!

Qin Ming still remembered the mysterious Scorpion Faction, although there had been no movement from them during this time.

Yet, it was precisely this lack of movement that made Qin Ming feel pressured. If they did not act, fine, but once they did, it would likely be their most formidable killing blow, or perhaps even a certain-death situation.

Furthermore, he needed to possess sufficient strength to avenge his master and to search for the spirit plant that could heal his master's injuries.

Everything required strength; he could not afford to wait any longer.

Looking at the Grade 4 spirit refining pill, which had no patterns yet was crystal clear, Qin Ming gritted his teeth, placed it in his mouth, and swallowed it.

Immediately, the Spiritual Qi within his Dantian surged like ocean waves, and his entire body began to expand as if it were a balloon.

"Ah!" Qin Ming let out a miserable shriek, frantically pounding his chest. A mouthful of blood sprayed out, and along with it, the Grade 4 spirit refining pill.

"Bang!" The room door was violently pushed open, and a figure flashed inside.

Upon seeing the blood on the floor, the person's expression changed, and he asked, "Qin Ming, are you alright!"

"I'm fine, I feel much better now." Looking at the concerned expression on his master Azure Flame, Qin Ming felt a warmth in his heart.

Azure Flame suddenly spotted the Medicinal Pill amidst the blood. He picked it up, held it to his nose to sniff it, and exclaimed in shock,

"Qin Ming, this is a Grade 4 qi refining pill!"

Qin Ming's Alchemy ability was far superior to his own; it was impossible for him to have accidentally taken the wrong Medicinal Pill. Therefore, Qin Ming must have swallowed it voluntarily. But why would Qin Ming want to swallow a Grade 4 spirit refining pill?

Did he not know that for his current Cultivate, he only needed to take a Grade 2 qi increasing pill? Even if he were to be a bit reckless, taking a qi gathering pill should not have been a major issue.

But to take a Grade 4 spirit refining pill was purely courting death.