Struggling

The duo thanked her and wished her goodnight. She wished them a goodnight as well and then left.

Yun Tian and Shen Yu then opened the door and walked into the courtyard. The main room had some couches and a small table in front of them. Connected was another room that had a table with chairs around it. He saw two more doors that Yun Tian assumed were bedrooms.

It was dark out, but not especially late and he planned on cultivating for a long time. He said to Shen Yu "We should probably stay in the same room."

He said this for safety's sake. Although the Feng clan seemed to pose no threat to them, he decided to play it safe.

Hearing him say this Shen Yu nodded with a serious look, since she understood what he meant. Inside her heart she was also just happy to stay in the same room as him.

With that Yun Tian walked towards one of the doors and opened it to walk inside. There was a large bed and a window that looked to the outside courtyard. Besides some candles on a desk there was nothing else.

Shen Yu came in after him and asked "Are you planning on cultivating for a while?"

She did not know how many demonic beast cores he had, but he just got a lot of pills that he could use.

She was right as Yun Tian nodded and said "Since I got my trading done, there is no pressing matter for the moment. I thought I would use up the resources I have and then we could go meet up with the wolves."

Then with a more serious look he said "After that, I should be strong enough now, so I want to go back to the Yun clan."

Shen Yu knew what he wanted to do, so when he said that she said in a tiny voice "We don't have to go back there. We could just forget about them and never go back there."

Yun Tian just looked at her for a while and eventually said "At the very least we will go there to find out the name of the clan who killed Mom and Dad. After we find that out... "

His speech drifted off and then he said "We will see."

Shen Yu watched him staring off at nothing and her heart ached. She couldn't bear to see him looking so lonely while dealing with his inner struggle. She didn't say anything and just followed her heart.

She ran over and hugged him.

Yun Tian held her in his arms and whispered "Thank you Shen Yu."

She always knew what he needed.

They stayed like that for a while and then he said "Aright, let's get some cultivating done."

With that Shen Yu nodded and let go of him. Both of them sat on the bed and Shen Yu started to cultivate.

Yun Tian thought for a moment and decided to use the pills to cultivate first.

After that he had one more thought 'Should I cultivate both at the same time? I could focus on either my dantian or demonic core. I could probably break through with one of them faster if I did it that way.'

He put away this thought when he realized 'This is part of the reason I am so strong, I don't think I should give it up.'

With that he swallowed the first pill and started to digest its effects. Once he swallowed it, he could tell more accurately how much qi it contained. While it wasn't as much as mid grade demonic core, it at least was better than an early grade one.

The qi within it was of higher purity. He spent less effort absorbing it into his dantian. While he was absorbing it into his dantian and demonic core, he noticed something he had thought was happening the last time he cultivated.

The demonic core had to convert the qi into demonic qi. For his dantian a higher purity and quality of normal qi was good for his dantinan with no downsides, but his demonic core wasted some of the qi when converting it. It was like his dantian could absorb one hundred percent of the pills' effects while his demonic core could only absorb ninety percent.

He had a theory about this.

'I am pretty sure that the higher the purity of a qi of a different kind is, the more is lost when converting it into another kind of qi. If that is the case, it will be more apparent when I get better resources.'

'It seems I should use human resources for my dantian and demonic beast cores for my demonic core. It's not like I have to do it this way, but it will certainly be more effective. As long as I have resources of both kinds, I will do it this way.'

With that he stopped sending the qi to his demonic core and sent all of it to his dantian. He would use the pills for his dantian and the demonic beast cores for his demonic core.

The pill had a considerable amount of energy and it took him around half an hour to absorb its effects completely. It did hold a large amount of qi, but the rate at which he absorbed qi also increased as he became stronger.

He watched in delight as the qi built up slowly in his dantian. When he started cultivating, his dantian was about one tenth full.

After finishing with one pill he took out another. This continued for five hours. Each time he finished one pill, he could absorb the next slightly faster. He used up half of the pills, but he smiled in satisfaction when he looked at his dantain that was now three tenths full.

He knew the pills he had left wouldn't be enough, but he didn't worry about that right now. The feeling of becoming stronger was enough. As long as he got stronger he could get more resources. It didn't matter how many resources it took or how long it took him finding and using them.

It wasn't that late when he started cultivating, only having just started to get dark then. Right now it was only about one or two hours past midnight. This and the fact that he didn't need to get that much sleep made him want to continue cultivating.

He opened his eyes and saw that Shen Yu was still busy cultivating as well.

He called out to her in a quiet voice "Shen Yu?"