Li Qingyun had always been practicing the way of mortals in this body.
Though the Cheng family, from top to bottom, was anxiously hoping for a young master, Li Qingyun himself cared even more than they did. As long as Tangyin's body remained unharmed, he never stopped trying.
His intuition grew ever clearer: if they could truly bear a son or daughter, covering death with birth and living another life, that would be true success!
The birth of descendants represented the rebirth of this body, represented his escape from the burial and extinction of eternity!
It was not until the small hours of the morning that Cheng Tangyin left the alchemy room, soft and weak, returned to her room to rest, then took spirit medicine to cultivate.
Li Qingyun remained behind, however, his spirits not diminished in the slightest. Using the various human-medicine materials already at hand, he began refining batch after batch of spirit medicine.
Spirit-Connecting Powder restored part of his sense of smell.
Qi-Eating Powder gave him a faint sense of taste.
Spirit Guiding Powder seemed to add a trace of imperceptible color to the vast, deathly Great Void Sky within his body.
Only Vital Energy Powder produced merely an imperceptible thread of warmth each time he took it. True Life Essence had yet to emerge...
Li Qingyun knew that if this body was to recover, Life Essence would be the first crucial key.
It was simply that he had worked with Young Master Wan for three years refining Spirit Guiding Powder. Tonight, he had intended to pry out formulas for higher-level spirit medicines, but things had ended on bad terms, leaving him no choice but to turn around and kill someone.
Over those three years, he had told Young Master Wan that roughly three sets of materials