After cultivating and studying his cultivation art, he practiced with his magical artifacts and spells, turning his cultivation into fighting strength.
Two months passed in the blink of an eye, yet there was still no word of any assignment from Moonwatch City's Elders Council.
Liu Yu did not let his thoughts run wild. He met movement with stillness and watched how things unfolded. In any case, there was no chance he would let them send him to his death. If necessary, he would simply flee.
Liu Yu was very interested in the Blood-Sacrificial Escape he had obtained after killing the white-bearded old man.
This secret art came at a considerable cost, but its principles were extremely simple. Even a cultivator in the qi refining period could use it, and he had thoroughly mastered its theory over the past two months.
An assignment could arrive at any moment now. Naturally, the sooner he learned this life-saving secret art, the better.
Having fully understood the secret art, Liu Yu took the spirit grasses needed to refine Blood-Melting Pills from the Immortal Mansion. Once the pills were ready, he could begin practicing Blood-Sacrificial Escape.
Blood-Melting Pills were about as difficult to refine as Essence-Refining Pills, and considerably easier than Azure Origin Pills. Given Liu Yu's thirty-five percent success rate with Essence-Refining Pills, he believed his initial success rate with Blood-Melting Pills would not be too low.
Maturing all the spirit grasses and spirit herbs needed for one batch cost roughly twenty spirit stones. He spent six hundred spirit stones to mature thirty batches of ingredients.
Refining five batches a day, he used up all thirty batches of matured spirit grasses in six days. Three batches succeeded, yielding twenty-three Blood-Melting Pills in total.
Watching the final batch of Blood-Melting Pills fail, Liu Yu cleared