Time passed. At the heart of the Ruins, You Die focused single-mindedly on refining the Variegated core. Unfortunately, due to the gap in cultivation between her and Nine Infants, her progress was exceedingly slow.
Several days later, she suddenly opened her eyes. "Brother Ye, I need Dao Bones!"
It had only been a few days. Refining Variegated consumed some of her strength, but the burden was not yet great. However, judging by the current pace, if she did not replenish her expenditure in advance, there was simply no way she could succeed in refining it.
Once her Dao Power was depleted midway through the refinement, everything she had done before would become wasted effort. She would have to start over from scratch, wasting both time and energy.
Therefore, she had to replenish herself in time. Only then would she have a chance of successfully refining it.
She was immensely grateful that Lu Ye had had the foresight to have her transfer a batch of Dao Bones into these Ruins. Otherwise, things would truly have been troublesome now.
Lu Ye promptly took out several Dao Bones and placed them beside her.
As a Merging Dao Peak cultivator, You Die was quite efficient at refining Dao Bones. Even though she was only a Soul Body at the moment, the Insect Mother specialized in Soul Power. Splitting off a portion of her divine sense to refine Dao Bones was no difficult task.
As she replenished herself, she continued refining the Variegated core.
Lu Ye kept watching the refinement's progress. It was easy enough to investigate. Because of the Life Chain, he could clearly sense the extent to which You Die's Soul Power had infiltrated it.
Half a month later, the refinement was roughly thirty percent complete. As the progress increased, You Die's refining