Gu He could not help but reveal a troubled expression as he muttered to himself, "Although its power has increased, my control over the flame has weakened somewhat as well. It seems I need to familiarize myself with it again. Only by gaining control over the new Green Lotus Core Flame can I return to the level where it moves as easily as my own arm."
Gu He put away the Azure Flame and stood up from the massive boulder in the center of the cave.
Next, I need to prepare the materials for refining a body.
There were three materials needed to refine a body: a Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melding Pill, the essence bloodline of a Seventh-tier Magical Beast, and the skeletal remains of a Dou Zong expert.
With a light wave of his sleeve, a frozen corpse floated before Gu He. A layer of transparent ice covered its surface, clearly preserving the final expression on the man's face before death. Even through the solid ice, one could still sense the terrifying energy contained within the body. It was the other Dou Zong corpse in Gu He's Ring. In life, he had been known as Old Man Eagle Mountain, the unlucky fellow who had tried to kill Gu He just after Gu He broke through to Dou Zong, only to be slain instead.
The Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melding Pill was a peak seventh-tier pill. With the medicinal ingredients in his Ring, along with those exchanged at the Myriad Sects Convention, he could barely gather enough for two attempts. He could try refining it; if he failed, he could only refine the mid-tier seventh-tier Yin Yang Life Soul Pill instead. However, he still hoped to use better materials so that Heavenly Fire Venerable could recover as much of his former strength as possible. That