Half a month later.
Song Wen returned to Cloud Creek Valley.
During that time, Song Wen had visited more than twenty cities and market towns in total.
He purchased a large number of demon beast souls, causing his spirit stones to dwindle rapidly.
He had originally possessed nearly one hundred ninety thousand high-grade spirit stones, but now had fewer than fifty thousand left.
In addition, he sold off all the treasures he had no use for, regardless of quality, in batches, exchanging them for seventy or eighty thousand high-grade spirit stones. These too had all been spent.
Upon entering the valley, he ignored Guan Lin, who had taken the initiative to curry favor with him, and went straight into the pavilion where he resided.
After releasing the Nether Fox and several Gu insects, Song Wen began his closed-door cultivation.
Time flew like a shuttle, and in the blink of an eye, twenty years passed.
Over those twenty years, Song Wen's cultivation had not advanced in the slightest, but the realm of his divine sense had reached the late stage of the Void Refinement Realm.
The advancement of his divine sense realm was certainly cause for celebration, but something else delighted Song Wen even more.
Under his lavish, no-expense-spared feeding, Shadow Void had devoured an unknown number of Soul Source Essences. Moreover, Soul Source Essence was exceptionally easy for Shadow Void to absorb; it scarcely needed refining before it could enhance its cultivation. This finally allowed Shadow Void's strength to break through, successfully advancing to the mid seventh rank.
Besides improving his divine sense, Song Wen had also found time to modify the Blood Essence Pill.
Whether because he had experience modifying such pills several times before or because fortune favored him, Song Wen successfully developed the pill he needed with