"He's Actually a Nascent Soul Great Cultivator?!"

Ji Yuan thought back for a moment and remembered.

Advancing from peak Qi Refining to the Foundation Establishment early stage required ten early-stage Foundation Establishment corpses of the same attribute, as well as three Foundation Establishment Pills.

The Foundation Establishment Pills would be easy enough. The ten corpses of the same attribute, though...

Tu Yue cultivated fire techniques. Ji Yuan reckoned that among the Foundation Establishment corpses he had buried, only two or three might have a fire attribute. He was still far short. So where could he find the most fire cultivators?

Medicine King Valley, naturally.

Medicine King Valley had plenty of alchemists, and naturally plenty of fire cultivators too.

Looks like once the Orthodox-Demonic War starts, I'll have to head west more often.

What for?

To help collect their corpses, of course. In any case, joining the fighting was out of the question.

"Go on. You can dig some dirt first too. A little reform through labor."

Ji Yuan waved his hand, and the Corpse Puppet Yin Boy rode his skull toward the mountaintop. Thick smoke billowed in his wake; one glance was enough to tell he was no decent fellow.

Even Big Clam beside him raised his head and watched Yin Boy's departing figure with extreme caution.

Ji Yuan thought for a moment, then asked Big Clam, "Could you beat him?"

Big Clam nodded without hesitation.

He was a late second tier Demon Beast, after all. His strength was no empty boast.

Having come to the western side of Mist Island, Ji Yuan stopped by the [Beehive] along the way. A sweep of his divine sense revealed roughly fourteen or fifteen thousand bees.

The swarm was sizable, but the Bee Queen was still its only second tier Spirit-Devouring Bee. A second had yet to appear.

Otherwise, Ji