Having escaped the lethal cooking of Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, Ryan sat slumped in Guyun Stone Forest for a while, eventually driven by hunger to get up.
"Hmm… I guess I'll have some seafood today. It's not really suitable for early morning… but this will probably be my only meal today…"
Rubbing his stomach, Ryan made this decision.
The reason he thought so was that he had nothing to do today and planned to continue refining pills, so he naturally wouldn't have time to eat.
Previously, in Jueyun Karst, he had intended to refine all the materials he had, but then Lumine and Paimon suddenly showed up, and he ended up getting struck by lightning.
Later, he learned about Ganyu's return to the mountain, so he had to stop for two days. Now it was time to continue refining.
Thinking this, Ryan began catching Crabs along the shore of Guyun Stone Forest, while also checking for any fish close to the shore.
After catching enough Crabs and fish, Ryan returned to the mountains of Guyun Stone Forest, took out a simple grill from his qiankun bag, and began to barbecue the fish and Crabs.
After eating his fill, Ryan took out the teacup Granny Ping had made for him, found a spot to place it down, opening it upwards.
It's worth mentioning that Ryan had already named this teacup: sun and moon cup.
After setting down the sun and moon cup, Ryan directly plunged into it, arriving inside the qiankun bag.
"…"
"!!!"
Ryan, upon landing, felt something moving in front of him. The moment he saw it clearly, his entire fox fur stood on end, and his tail puffed up like a feather duster.
In front of Ryan was Lime, the Slime he had raised.
However, at this moment, Lime's purple body had grown eight humanoid arms made of Slime fluid, and these eight arms, each two to three meters long, supported him on the ground, moving like a giant spider.
Lime also noticed Ryan at this time and immediately crawled over happily, raising his four front arms to embrace the terrified Ryan, pressing him against his giant Slime body.
From the fox stone statue he had previously built with stones, it was clear that he recognized Ryan and regarded him as a good person.
"…"
Although startled at first glance, Ryan managed to calm down after realizing it was Lime, but he still quickly pushed him away in disgust.
He looked too strange like that… Ryan then looked around and found that a bottle of pills was indeed missing from his table.
Although the qiankun bag was messy, Ryan was careful in categorizing his pills, so he quickly recognized that the missing pills were failed Three Heads Six Arms Pills.
'Did I take one to punish the person who argued with Senior Sister Ganyu earlier, and it just happened to catch his attention?'
Ryan subconsciously considered this possibility, as this was the only bottle of pills missing from the qiankun bag.
However, although it was called a bottle, there were only two pills left inside.
"Huh, do pills assume a person has two hands by default, so the effect is just to grow four extra arms and two heads to make three heads and six arms…?"
Ryan, noticing that Lime only had eight arms, suddenly speculated about this.
Lime had eaten two Three Heads Six Arms Pills, so he grew a total of eight arms.
"But the head… Is it because Slimes don't have necks, so it's impossible to distinguish where his head is, and it just simply made the Slime's body swell up?"
Looking at the Slime, which was much larger than normal and almost as tall as himself, Ryan couldn't help but speculate.
And just as Ryan was speculating, the effects of the Three Heads Six Arms Pill coincidentally ended. The eight arms on Lime's body slowly withered, turning into ordinary Slime and retracting back into him.
Immediately after, the Slime's body rapidly shrank, quickly returning to the size where Ryan could pick him up by the small tuft on his head, and he plopped onto the ground with a squish.
Seeing the medicinal effects on Lime end, Ryan finally breathed a sigh of relief, reaching out and grabbing the small tuft on his head to lift him up.
"I almost forgot, Slimes can also eat pills…"
Looking at Lime, who became very docile after being picked up, Ryan mumbled, carrying him to his pill-displaying table.
Here were several wooden tables and shelves, on which many bottles containing pills were placed.
However, most of them were one-star pills with little effect, such as pills that slightly increased strength. Ryan himself had eaten many of these one-star pills, and even fed many to Shenhe.
So he and Shenhe had reached a point where no matter how many more they ate, their strength wouldn't increase further, and these pills didn't increase much strength anyway, so the rest had been left unused here.
[Strength-Enhancing Pill (1-star): Can slightly increase strength, but body sensitivity will increase proportionally.]
[Electro-Resistance Pill (1-star): Can slightly increase Electro element resistance, but hair is more prone to frizzing when touched by the Electro element.]
Since his last growth, the golden light emanating from Ryan's pupils had also evolved. After taking another look at these pills, Ryan found that he had once again gained clearer descriptions.
"…"
Seeing the side effects of these pills, Ryan felt that it was definitely too late to spit them out now, so he just pretended not to see them.
"You don't have hair, so you shouldn't be afraid of frizzing, right?"
Then Ryan picked up the Electro-Resistance Pill and put it into Lime's body.
Next, Ryan placed Lime aside, letting him slowly digest the pill.
Feeding him pills was to have him help withstand the lightning tribulation. After putting down Lime, Ryan immediately began preparing to refine pills.
He went directly to Osial's head, taking out the dragon-wounding file in his hand.
After all, the God's defensive capabilities were very strong. Even though Osial's body composition was somewhat similar to a Water Slime, Ryan still found it difficult to damage his outer skin.
In this situation, slowly filing it with a file was the best option.
It is worth mentioning that although this head was "dead," it was separated from Osial's body by the One Head Two Arms Pill. As long as it was put back together, it would reattach to Osial's body.
So even though it had been removed for many days, it was still full of vitality and would not, like when a God falls, have its internal power dissipate and escape.
"The wounds from the lightning tribulation have almost healed…"
Ryan came to the location where the wounds on Osial's head remained, mumbled to himself, and then began to file at the newly healed wound with the file.
Newly healed wounds were inherently fragile. After some attempts, Ryan successfully filed it open, and a trace of blue blood flowed out.
Just from the blood, Ryan could feel a heavy sensation, as if it would drown and suffocate a person.
"Good stuff, good stuff…"
But Ryan was not affected by that feeling. Instead, he excitedly took out a bottle to collect the blood.
As long as Osial in the sea didn't die, this head wouldn't die either, so Ryan could confidently collect the materials he wanted.
Blood was just one of them; Ryan didn't let go of the skin or flesh either.
However, he couldn't get too much at once, so he could only get a little bit first, just enough for refining pills…