"Begin refining!"
Wei Tu hardened his heart. No longer fixating on whether refining these two top-grade spirit medicines now was wasteful, he raised a hand and formed a seal, starting with the Fragrant Luo Grass and using an alchemist's methods to extract the precious spiritual fluid from its roots and stalks.
Drops of pale violet spiritual fluid flowed into a pill bottle, wrapped in his mana.
Several days later.
As the pill bottle gradually filled, the once crystal-clear Fragrant Luo Grass, whose rich fragrance had filled the chamber, withered away into ash.
"Still not enough." Wei Tu repeated the process and extracted the spiritual fluid from the Heavenly Ginseng Infant as well.
After that, Wei Tu wasted no more time. After ordering the Blood-Winged Mo to guard his path outside the cave abode, he began cultivating in earnest, attempting to break through.
"Just who are these two lords? There is no need to mention the female cultivator—at such a young age, she has already reached the peak of Void Refinement."
"As for that male cultivator... he is clearly only at the early Void Refinement stage, yet his strength is enough to rival that of a mid-stage, even late-stage Void Refinement cultivator... And my instincts tell me that the female cultivator seems to defer to him as well, obeying him in everything."
Day after day passed.
After Wei Tu entered seclusion to break through and loosened his control over the three great cultivation families of Guangling Commandery, the ancestors of those three families—the three men including the horse-faced old man—once again gathered in secret, and thoughts of disloyalty began to rise within them.
No one was born willing to be a servant.
Least of all Void Refinement Grand Venerables.
"Let us put aside whether their origins are truly as they