Over the past two years.
Xu Chuan had devoted himself to studying the pill Dao.
He had also developed a pill for breaking through the Grandmaster bottleneck, naming it the Sect-Breaking Pill.
Like the Realm-Breaking Pill, a martial artist could take this Pill no more than five times in a lifetime.
It also helped Grandmasters break through Minor Realms.
A high-grade Sect-Breaking Pill could practically guarantee a breakthrough with a single pill, but a low-grade one was another matter.
It was about as difficult to refine as the Grandmaster Martial Pill, but its ingredients were ten times more precious. Fortunately, the Xu Household had collected and cultivated plenty of medicinal plants and spirit herbs.
With two Medicine Gardens growing them as well, there was no shortage for the time being.
Moreover, Xu Chuan's mastery of the pill Dao allowed him to make almost perfect use of those medicinal plants and spirit herbs.
Since his Nine-Flame Art had reached the Eight Flames level, he could generally produce nine first-tier Pills per batch, with seven or eight high-grade Pills and the remainder mid-grade.
Even Yun Zhongzi would have admired Xu Chuan's accomplishments in the pill Dao.
However, his high-grade yield for second-tier pills could not reach such heights.
At most, he had produced six in a single batch.
After all, second-tier Pills were far harder to refine than first-tier Pills, demanding much more in terms of magic power and flame control.
Demon beast cultivation was also on the right track. He had refined several kinds of pills suitable for raising spirit beasts, gradually forming a complete system.
These were ordinary pills suitable for most spirit beasts.
For special spirit beasts or spirit insects, however, he could gather the ingredients and refine pills specifically for them. Given his mastery of the pill Dao,