Yin-Yang Void Pill

After forging the Black Dragon Bracelet, Chen Nianzhi retrieved Pure Yang Fruit, Void Profound Jade, and other materials from the clan treasury, preparing to open the furnace and refine a batch of Pure Yang Void Pills.

Yet before opening the furnace, Chen Nianzhi halted his movements, turned around, and headed toward the vast expanse.

After arriving at the Vast Sea, Chen Nianzhi flew deep underground and soon reached a netherworld domain.

After many years apart, when Chen Nianzhi saw Qing Yin again, he discovered that Patriarch Qing Yin's cultivation had advanced another step, entering the sixth level of the Primordial Spirit realm.

Although he knew that, after specializing in the Netherworld Dao, Patriarch Qing Yin had received the worship of countless cultivators in the Purple Yin Realm, allowing his cultivation to advance at an astonishing pace—

Qing Yin's meteoric rate of progress still left Chen Nianzhi greatly shocked.

At this thought, Chen Nianzhi said in surprise, "It seems it will not be long before Patriarch breaks through to the late Primordial Spirit stage."

"Not at all..."

Patriarch Qing Yin shook his head and sighed. "My cultivation has been piled up entirely through the power of incense offerings. My mana has never been refined to discard the dross and retain the essence; my foundation is likely terribly unstable."

"I may perhaps cultivate to the ninth level of the Primordial Spirit realm in the future, but to go any further would be nothing more than a fool's dream."

At that moment, Patriarch Qing Yin's expression was both helpless and grave.

The path he walked was a true dead end, for the power of incense offerings was poisonous.

Though this thing was immensely beneficial to ghost cultivators, it contained too many stray thoughts. One had to carefully refine away those stray thoughts before