Chapter 427: This Time, He Really Had to Eat It! "Sigh..."
Yan Ze sighed softly too, tapped the rim of his teacup with a fingertip, and shook his head.
"The Spirit-Opening Pill is good, but compared with a top-tier pill, it still falls short by more than a little... oh well!"
He drained the remaining tea in his cup and rose to his feet.
"Gaining some experience with a breakthrough attempt first isn't necessarily a bad thing. Once Brother Shen comes out of seclusion, I'll have someone deliver the Spirit-Nourishing Soul-Cleansing Pill. Next time, he can break through the shackles of spirit refinement with confidence."
Xie Hui nodded slightly, wholeheartedly agreeing.
The two of them seemed to have already decided.
There was no way Shen Xiuhan could attain spirit refinement in a single attempt!
After all...
According to the publicly available information on Shen Xiuhan, he possessed only five-form bone aptitude.
The importance of bone aptitude to a martial artist went without saying.
During ordinary cultivation, resources and pills could still compensate for a slower cultivation speed.
But at the thresholds of major realms such as spirit refinement and astral qi, the barrier was a genuine heavenly chasm, a solid wall.
With a foundation of five-form bone aptitude, trying to break through to spirit refinement on the first attempt...
Was as difficult as climbing to heaven!
"All right, you two, stay here."
Yan Ze turned and cupped his hands to them.
"No need to see me off. I'll just..."
Before he could finish, he saw Xie Hui and Shi Jingxuan freeze, their eyes fixed on something behind him.
Something stirred in Yan Ze's heart, and he instinctively turned to look.
Shen Xiuhan was walking slowly toward them along the stone path beside the cliff.
Dressed in a long blue-green robe,