During the years as Shi Yan, because of the physical injury, she really took some bitter pills. At the very beginning, her fake father told her that it was very difficult for her to restore her cultivation to the peak, and she might not be able to return to the Void Refinement stage in her entire life. As a result, he only gave her some pills to heal her injuries, so that her cultivation level was stabilized during the transformation stage and would not fall.

Later, she was also looking for people in Hexian City. Although it was possible to recover, she needed an astronomical amount of medical expenses. She also asked for a power that was one level higher than her original level to help her get through the injured and blocked spiritual veins. When she heard the huge sum of money, calculated her salary, and then thought about failure, she decided to remain in Soul Formation Stage for the rest of her life.

Anyway, it wasn’t the level she had worked so hard to cultivate herself, she still had to learn to be content. It was enough for her to be a cultivator.

What did she think about at that time? One day, she could recover to the peak of her cultivation so quickly, only to knock some medicine like jelly beans. The whole process was painless, and she even wanted to have some more sugar pills. There was a kind of pill that evoked her childhood memories. It was a white small candy pill that she had eaten as a child. What kind of candy pill was it called?

“This is quite delicious, is there any more?” Liao Tingyan asked, licking her lips.

Sima Jiao stared at her deeply, and made people call in all those alchemists who made the small pills. The alchemists who were busy working on the hair growth pills had to put down their work first to see the demon lord.

Liao Tingyan was a little touched, thinking: What kind of man would do this for his beloved girl? It was too exciting.

Sima Jiao pointed at her and asked the alchemists angrily, “Why did she look silly after taking those pills?!” The question was very sincere, and anger was also real..

Liao Tingyan: “…” Your mother? I declare that you have lost your girlfriend. Whether it used to be me or not, I am not anymore.

Sima Jiao glanced at her, then changed the subject and said, “Make more of the pill for clearing spirit veins.”

An alchemist stabilized his mind and stood up and said, “Demon lord, that one Jieqing pill is enough to eliminate all the old blocked spirit veins and injuries. I have refined this Jieqing pill for many years, and the efficacy of the pill will never be wrong. Madam, one is enough!”

The demon lord called a group of them to refine the pill for this mysterious lady, each one kind. If the pill the rest of the people made had an effect, but the one he made was not effective, where would he put his old face?

Liao Tingyan covered her face and couldn’t bear to continue listening.

Sima Jiao didn’t care, “Then refine some pills that don’t have the effect of elixir but have the same taste.”

Alchemist: “???” He finally reacted. The demon lord told him not to make pills, but to make sugar candies. Probably because he had never taken on such a simple task in his entire life, he hadn’t recovered for a long time, and was a little skeptical of life.

Then Liao Tingyan got candy pills. People in Demon Realm had an atmosphere of sending things, either in baskets or in big boxes, with the boldness of ‘take it and eat it’.

Sima Jiao also tasted a candy pill, and looked at her faintly for a long while, “Sooner or later I will catch Shi Qianli and kill him happily.”

Liao Tingyan: “…Huh?” What did Shi Qianli do?

Sima Jiao: “You haven’t eaten anything good all these years.”

Liao Tingyan was expressionless and ate the sugar pills. She didn’t want to talk to this man anymore.

 ‘You return my childhood memories! You return my homesickness!’

Sima Jiao sat beside her with one foot raised, head propped on his hand, in a very casual posture, “Do you know why I am not in a hurry to explain my identity to you?” He touched her other hand and squeezed her belly.

Liao Tingyan stopped eating sugar pills. Her eyes followed his hand. 

Friend, why is your action too natural? Where are you touching? I haven’t confirmed the identity of us being boyfriend and girlfriend yet.

She put her hand on her belly, not allowing the meat on her belly to be squeezed. Sima Jiao didn’t care, he touched her hand and rubbed her fingers.

He leaned in close to her, “Because… you will find out for yourself soon.”

Liao Tingyan snapped the candy pill in her mouth with a click. Sima Jiao was very close to her. He heard the sound of chewing candy, and the corners of his lips lifted.

Liao Tingyan was jumping repeatedly on the edge, making him angry. 

No, what is your hobby? Do I owe you anything?

She fell asleep with suspicion. Before going to bed, Sima Jiao told her that when she woke up again, her cultivation would be fully restored.

That evening, Liao Tingyan slept very well. Sima Jiao sat next to her, grasped her, massaged her arms, squeezed her legs, rubbed her stomach, and touched her assets. Of course it was to enhance the effect of the drug to get through the injured and blocked spiritual veins. After a meal, Liao Tingyan did not wake up.

“How can you still sleep like this?” Sima Jiao muttered to himself in a low voice, while looking at her quietly as the smile on his face slowly disappeared.

He rarely had such a peaceful moment, especially since he lost Liao Tingyan. The wait felt longer than the five hundred years at Three Saints Mountain.

The bloodless, pale fingers took a strand of hair on Liao Tingyan’s cheek, and slowly curled it up. The strand of long hair fell from his hand again.

…

Morning and night in Winter City were the coldest times. Occasionally, some frost would condense on the white buildings. When the sun rose, these frost would quickly melt and dissipate, and even the last trace of water vapor would be dispersed in the air.

The cold and dry winter city made Liao Tingyan, who had lived in Hexian City for several years, uncomfortable. But the palace where she was living was different from the outside. It was protected by formations and was warm like spring. 

That morning, a cloud rolled up over the Forbidden Palace, and then snow fell. This was because the gathered spiritual power stirred the clouds in the sky, so there was this rare snow.

As soon as Liao Tingyan woke up and saw the heavy snow flying outside the window, she sat up and ran to the window to look out. Then she realized that the leaked spiritual power gathered in the forbidden palace was because of her.

She condensed her subconscious spiritual power, leaned against the window and closed her eyes and looked inside. The feeling was completely different from Soul Formation Stage. The quantitative change made her feel that she could now deal with her twenty previous selves.