At home, Zhou Chen opened the generous gifts Lian Taoze had sent him that day.
Inside was a thick medicine box. When he opened it, he found ten Deer-Blood Muscle-Strengthening Pills nestled within. Beside it were various other items, all worth a considerable sum.
With the five Deer-Blood Muscle-Strengthening Pills Old Zheng had given him, he would not have to worry too much about cultivation resources for the next half month.
The most valuable gift was a medicinal formula called "Blood Python Sinew-Tempering Paste." This medicine could penetrate deep into the sinews and flesh, "tearing apart" and then "healing" the layers of fascia. Through repeated cycles, the toughness and density of the sinews and flesh would rise to a new level.
It was particularly effective for the breakthrough from copper sinew-flesh to golden tendon flesh.
But gathering all the ingredients was extremely difficult. The main ingredients actually required the subcutaneous mucus of a Blood Python Beast, the formic acid of Redfire Ants, and iron-sand mud from the middle reaches of the Black River. By a rough calculation, assembling even one batch would cost at least a hundred taels of silver!
And according to the formula's description, tempering copper sinew-flesh into golden tendon flesh required cleansing the body with at least a hundred batches. Even then, there was only a thirty-percent chance of success!
That alone showed how costly tempering golden tendon flesh was, and how difficult the breakthrough would be!
But my body has no accumulated miasma poison. I have an immaculate body, so perhaps I won't need that many cleansing sessions to break through to golden tendon flesh.
Still, Zhou Chen understood that however quickly he progressed, tempering his copper sinew-flesh into golden tendon flesh would be like grinding stone with a slow trickle of water. It could not