Night fell. The suite arranged by the Royal Court was outrageously luxurious, its every facility worthy of being called top-tier.
With still half a month before the Starry Sky Ancient Road opened, more and more prodigies were arriving.
Since the Rumor Gu had only just been born, and had been nurtured jointly by the Divine Baleful Gu and the Taiji Geomancy Gu, it provided Bai Yu with no cultivation boost whatsoever. At most, it was a hidden trump card.
After placing the Rumor Gu inside his grotto-heaven to nurture it, Bai Yu began studying the Black Emperor Sutra he had comprehended together with Luo Shuang.
Now, refining peak eighth-rank great medicines posed no difficulty for him. Though he occasionally failed, that was perfectly normal. A ninety-percent pill-forming rate—if other Great Apothecaries learned of it, Bai Yu would be a monster in their eyes.
Before coming here, Bai Yu, who had remained hidden in the imperial palace, had also fused the Immortal Medicine Scripture with the Black Emperor Sutra and attempted to explore the refinement of ninth-rank great medicines.
Yet after so long, he still could not find the way in. Eighth-rank great medicines were much like those of lower grades: as long as the power within was stabilized and allowed to develop life, the great medicine would naturally take form.
But for ninth-rank great medicines, the most crucial step was absorbing the power of heaven and earth. At a certain moment, the Great Apothecary had to bestow spirit upon it, allowing the great medicine to truly transform from a dead thing into a living being.
According to the records in the Emperor Sutra, if a ninth-rank great medicine possessed sufficient energy, it could even cultivate like a human!
Thus, ninth-rank great medicines were no longer entirely medicinal pills. They had