Dragon-Tiger Bone Tempering Pill!

The next day, Bai Yu and the others returned to the Mortuary.

Bai Yu had changed into a set of yellow clothes, neat and tidy.

From today onwards, he was a clerk in the Mortuary, considered a minor official in uniform.

While the others were still reminiscing about the tenderness of the previous night, Bai Yu was already looking forward to starting work.

He was neither hurried nor impatient, still receiving the delivered corpses in an orderly manner, and then burying them one by one.

Zhu Tong and the others couldn't help but praise him.

"Brother Bai is really different. He hasn't become arrogant at all after becoming a clerk, and he still personally handles the burials. Look at Wu the Unvirtuous, he doesn't care about anything."

Old Zhang also chimed in:

"That's right, Wu the Unvirtuous looks down on us, his eyes are practically in the sky, and he always orders us around."

"It's still Bai Yu who's different. Even though he's become a clerk, he treats us the same as before."

Bai Yu didn't care about this, and still buried the bodies conscientiously.

After all, who would refuse rewards?

In the following days, the Prefect sent two sixth-rank martial artists to be stationed at the Mortuary.

One of the two was as thin as iron, and the other was as strong as a bear. They were known as the Wind and Thunder Swords.

However, the two only took turns guarding the place and didn't interact much with the people at the Mortuary.

Adhering to the principle of caution, Bai Yu forcibly improved the Mystic Tortoise Breath Concealment Art to the point of mastery.

The Wind and Thunder Swords had high cultivation levels, and Bai Yu didn't want to reveal any flaws.

In addition, Uncle Jiu had damaged his Blood Essence before, and was basically recuperating in his room.

All the affairs of the Mortuary were handed over to Bai Yu.

Later, Uncle Jiu directly handed Zhu Tong and Little Wang over to Bai Yu to manage.

These two became Bai Yu's direct subordinates.

On this day, Old Zhang dragged more than a dozen corpses from the city.

Bai Yu couldn't participate in so many burials alone, so he had no choice but to let Zhu Tong and Little Wang each bury a few.

As a result, a strange scene appeared.

[Subordinate burial successful, obtained ordinary reward: Blood Essence +1, Life Experience +0.5!]

[Subordinate burial successful, obtained reward: Blood Essence +2, Life Experience +3!]

A series of prompts on the Burial World Record left Bai Yu a little confused.

He didn't expect that subordinates could also receive burial rewards.

According to the information on the Burial World Record, subordinates could only receive half the rewards.

Moreover, Bai Yu could currently only have two subordinate slots.

But this still surprised Bai Yu very much, and he wouldn't have to do everything himself in the future.

He had already decided that he would naturally bury martial artists himself.

When he was too busy to handle some less important funerals, he could let Zhu Tong and Little Wang participate.

In this way, Bai Yu's efficiency in obtaining burial rewards increased.

The days in the Mortuary gradually returned to calm.

On this day, Bai Yu finished burying the bodies and began his daily cultivation.

He kept bumping into a big tree, and the branches and leaves of the tree rustled.

The bottom of the tree had already been stripped of a layer of bark, revealing the trunk inside.

After bumping almost his entire body, Bai Yu circulated his cultivation technique, and a layer of dark golden gauze appeared on his skin.

Although this layer of gauze was very thin, and even easily overlooked, it was extremely tough.

Inner force transformed into gauze!

This was the unique aspect of the Iron Shirt Golden Bell Shield, which could transform inner force into gauze, coupled with his own copper skin and iron bones, it was equivalent to having double the defense.

If he encountered Golden Dragon Abbot again, his Buddhist bead hidden weapons would definitely not be able to hurt Bai Yu.

Bai Yu picked up a dagger and stabbed it hard into his chest.

The sharp dagger couldn't break through the defense of the gauze at all.

Only then did he nod in satisfaction.

"The Iron Shirt Golden Bell Shield has been cultivated to perfection, and can gather Blood Essence to form gauze. Next, it's time to refine some pills."

He had previously found a pill formula on Golden Dragon Abbot—the Dragon-Tiger Bone Tempering Pill.

The Bone Tempering Pill, as the name suggests, is a pill for tempering bones, which is of great benefit to the fifth-rank Bone Tempering Realm.

Bai Yu made several trips to the Black Market and pharmacies before finally gathering all the necessary medicinal ingredients. He even went as far as to buy a small bronze cauldron.

The medicinal ingredients and the bronze cauldron cost Bai Yu nearly two hundred taels of silver.

Bai Yu returned to his room and took out a simple, ancient-looking small cauldron.

Then, he placed the prepared medicinal ingredients into it one by one.

"Python gallbladder, tiger blood, tiger bone, Heavenly Fragrance Grass, Chonglou Fruit..."

Next, he lit the specially made charcoal and began refining the elixir.

He continuously stirred the ingredients inside, carefully controlling the heat.

Before long, a rich fragrance filled the air, invigorating anyone who smelled it.

But the next moment, the fragrance turned into a burnt smell, and the ingredients inside were directly reduced to charcoal.

Bai Yu's face showed obvious distress.

That batch of ingredients had cost him nearly twenty taels of silver!

And he had to make several trips back and forth to gather them all.

It had to be said, refining elixirs was indeed a money-burning profession.

Apart from a very few geniuses, every alchemist was forged with a massive amount of silver.

For ordinary people to try and learn alchemy on their own was as difficult as ascending to heaven.

However, Bai Yu had a certain degree of confidence.

He looked at the panel:

[Dragon-Tiger Bone Tempering Pill: Beginner (0.2/10)]

He gritted his teeth and poured over a hundred points of Life Experience into it.

Instantly, it changed to:

[Dragon-Tiger Bone Tempering Pill: Practiced (0.2/1000)]

For anyone else to increase their alchemy proficiency, even with outstanding talent, it would take at least several thousand taels of silver.

Fortunately, Bai Yu had the Burial World Record, which allowed him to directly increase proficiency with Life Experience.

Bai Yu adjusted his breathing and began refining the elixir again.

The second time, he refined it into powder and failed to form a pill.

The reason was unstable heat control, so Bai Yu decided to use internal energy to regulate the temperature of the cauldron.

The third time, he successfully formed a pill, but it exploded at the last moment.

Bai Yu pondered for a moment and realized that the snake gallbladder and tiger blood were conflicting. He should use auxiliary ingredients to neutralize the medicinal properties of the tiger blood and add the snake gallbladder after they were completely fused.

The fourth time, the fifth time...

Each time, Bai Yu got closer to success. He found the problem and improved upon it.

Finally, on the sixth time, a dark red pill was successfully produced.

This pill emitted a rich and spicy fragrance that made one's Blood Essence surge.

"Although the quality isn't great, I finally succeeded."

Bai Yu breathed a sigh of relief.

He was almost out of the main ingredients he had prepared. If he couldn't refine it again, he would have to wait until next time.

He calmed his mind and swallowed the Dragon-Tiger Bone Tempering Pill.

The pill was very spicy, and a stimulating sensation rushed straight to his head.

Not only that, but Blood Essence all over his body surged, drumming incessantly.

Bai Yu focused his mind inward and could vaguely see internal energy and Blood Essence rapidly circulating in his meridians.

Each time they circulated, Blood Essence would wrap around the medicinal power and temper the nearby bones.

After several temperings, the bones became hard and dense, and the originally snow-white bones were dyed a layer of light red.

The Bone Tempering Realm was about tempering the bones with Blood Essence and internal energy.

In the past, tempering was very slow.

But taking this pill was almost equivalent to one or two months of hard work.

Bai Yu circulated his cultivation technique and absorbed the medicinal power completely.

He couldn't help but look forward to how far his cultivation could improve if he had a large batch of Bone Tempering Pills.