In response to Cheng Xiaofan's reminder, Inoue Shoichi nodded incessantly, absolutely not daring to utter a word of refusal.
He was not worried about the other party taking his money and running away under the guise of refining elixirs. Everyone who came here was personally escorted.
The surrounding courtyard walls, set up like a maze, were not just for show; not even a mosquito could fly in and then fly out.
"Mr. Cheng, shall I arrange for a few days' worth of food to be sent here for you?" Inoue Shoichi asked again.
Cheng Xiaofan said earnestly, "No need. Once I enter the state of refining elixirs, I don't need to eat or drink. I can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth at will, without any sense of hunger or thirst!"
"Under such circumstances, I am like an immortal, even more so than an immortal!"
"Ah, Immortal Cheng, you are too amazing!" Deep within his heart, Inoue Shoichi's resolve to eliminate Cheng Xiaofan grew even stronger.
Since Heaven had sent this person here, he must never be allowed to return.
Inoue Shoichi asked again, "Immortal Cheng, do you have any other requests? Please, state them."
Cheng Xiaofan chuckled and said, "My request is that you leave my side immediately. I need to go into the room for a short rest and prepare to enter the elixir refining mode!"
"Alright, I will leave now, I will leave immediately!" Upon hearing this, Inoue Shoichi bowed to Cheng Xiaofan again and retreated.
Watching Inoue Shoichi disappear before him, Cheng Xiaofan couldn't help but sneer.
After closing the door, he immediately scanned the room. Apart from an ant climbing in a corner, he found no surveillance equipment.
At this moment, Cheng Xiaofan comfortably lay down on the bed and took out his phone, intending to call his own goddess Bai and inquire about the situation at home.
To his surprise, when he took out his phone, he found there was no signal at all.
Cheng Xiaofan suddenly remembered the mysterious courtyard walls surrounding the area, which had the function of blocking mobile phone signals.
As for the mobile phones used by Inoue Shoichi and Yoshida Hideo, they had been specially treated, and those courtyard walls could not interfere with their signals.
"Potian Eagle, are you there?"
Putting away his phone, Cheng Xiaofan used his spiritual sense to communicate with Potian.
Immediately, a chirping sound came from his sea of consciousness, the response of Potian Eagle.
Cheng Xiaofan immediately activated his Dragon Eye clairvoyance, his gaze piercing through the walls, tracing the source of Potian's voice.
After a moment, he discovered that Potian Eagle was hidden in the woods behind the villa, nestled among dense foliage.
"Potian Eagle, did you encounter any interference from mysterious forces when you entered?" Cheng Xiaofan immediately asked.
Potian Eagle responded, "No, I entered stealthily. No one saw me, and I didn't encounter any interference from mysterious forces."
Upon hearing this, Cheng Xiaofan understood. The malevolent forces set up within the surrounding courtyard walls had no effect on stealthy creatures.
Or perhaps, Potian Eagle possessed an innate ability to counter interference.
Regardless of the reason, Cheng Xiaofan was very happy to receive this information from Potian Eagle.
With Potian Eagle's help, it would be too easy for him to leave this place.
After ending his communication with Potian Eagle, Cheng Xiaofan took out the various medicinal herbs purchased by Matsushita Kutsushita from his backpack.
These herbs were meticulously prepared by Cheng Xiaofan, but they were not for detoxification, but specifically for breaking elixirs.
Whether it was the Blood Demon Sect of Sakuragi Country or the ancient martial arts enthusiasts in the Huaxia martial world, during their cultivation, they invariably used the human body as a cauldron, and essence, qi, and spirit as medicine, to forge an energy elixir within their bodies, collectively called the Golden Elixir or Crystallized Elixir.
The purer the Golden Elixir within the body, the greater the energy, and simultaneously, the higher the person's cultivation level.
Forming a Golden Elixir was not just an advancement of magic power; the Golden Elixir also served as an energy reserve, capable of absorbing and condensing spiritual energy from heaven and earth, providing a constant source of power.
The first time Cheng Xiaofan saw Inoue Shoichi and Yoshida Hideo, he noticed that their cultivation levels had already reached the seventh realm of Innate, and even higher.
The reason he could discern the cultivation levels of others was primarily based on the amount of energy stored within their Golden Elixirs.
The stronger the energy, the more overbearing the aura radiating from that person.
Cheng Xiaofan felt that it was difficult to predict whether he had a chance of winning if he were to engage in a direct confrontation with these two.
At the same time, he was very aware that if he did not completely eliminate these two, the threat they posed to him would only grow larger over time.
To eliminate this threat, from the very beginning, Cheng Xiaofan had pretended to believe they were genuine officials of Sakuragi Country and had thus set a trap for them to fall into.
The series of events that had unfolded were merely a prelude, with the ultimate goal being the successful destruction of Inoue Shoichi and Yoshida Hideo's inner elixirs.
Once these two individuals' inner elixirs were destroyed, Cheng Xiaofan would have successfully eliminated the potential threat from the Blood Demon Sect.
However, the elixir Cheng Xiaofan was about to refine now had to be controlled with extreme precision, both in terms of quantity and heat.
This meant that after Inoue Shoichi and Yoshida Hideo consumed this elixir, their Golden Elixirs would be rendered useless without them realizing it, and they must not detect it in the slightest.
This was because the Golden Elixir had a protective barrier. If the owner sensed that their cultivated Golden Elixir was in danger, a protective barrier would immediately rise from the Dantian to shield the Golden Elixir.
At that point, even the most potent elixir would be unable to break the Golden Elixir.
The supplementary volume of the Shennong Jing, hidden deep within Cheng Xiaofan's mind, contained the procedure and detailed method for refining the Elixir Breaking Pill.
Cheng Xiaofan spent the entire afternoon studying the secret art of refining the Elixir Breaking Pill.
There were always people better than you, and heavens beyond heavens.
It was likely that Emperor Shennong had encountered a formidable opponent back then, which led him to develop this Elixir Breaking Pill.
However, the formidable opponent Emperor Shennong faced back then must have been infinitely more powerful than Inoue Shoichi and Yoshida Hideo of the Blood Demon Sect of Sakuragi Country.
Currently, Cheng Xiaofan felt that using the secret art from the Shennong Jing to deal with these two scumbags was like using Guan Gong's sabre to swat a fly.
As dusk approached, Cheng Xiaofan consumed a few energy pills and drank a bottle of energy water, then, he flashed into the space.
As Cheng Xiaofan sat cross-legged on the ground, embracing his core and maintaining his unity, the energy within the space immediately formed a giant vortex centered on him.
In the blink of an eye, all the medicinal herbs laid out before Cheng Xiaofan were absorbed into the center of the vortex.
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"Grand Sect Master, since Cheng Xiaofan arrived here, I have had a premonition that he will become a fatal threat to us."
At this very moment, Inoue Shoichi and Yoshida Hideo were discussing matters in a private chamber when Yoshida Hideo suddenly said to Inoue Shoichi.