The major shops did carry body cultivation methods, but every one had flaws of one kind or another.
They were either severely incomplete or far too low-level.
Moreover, most only covered the Qi Refining stage. The Foundation Establishment portions were so badly damaged that cultivating them carried enormous risks, and success was practically impossible.
Although Liu Yu had never practiced a body cultivation method, he was a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator, not a novice ignorant of even the basics of cultivation. Naturally, he could judge these things.
What use would a body cultivation method that only reached the Qi Refining Period be to him?
Even if he mastered the entire method, his body would not withstand an attack from a superior-grade magical artifact, let alone a top-grade magical artifact. It was nothing but chicken ribs-too meager to savor, yet a pity to discard.
Nor would Liu Yu practice methods that were too incomplete, using his own body to test whether they worked.
Why abandon a broad, level highway for a rugged little trail?
Although he wanted to develop both his magical power and his physique, and hoped to find a body cultivation method to temper his flesh, that did not mean he would accept just anything.
At the very least, it had to carry him through the stages before the Golden Core Stage, be reasonably complete, and include offensive techniques before he would consider it.
Those were his most basic requirements. Otherwise, it would offer negligible help while wasting his energy.
After making the rounds of every shop in the East Market, even entering deserted little stores to inquire, Liu Yu still found no suitable method. He was deeply disappointed.
Leaving the East Market through its exit, he glanced back once before finally heading home to his cave abode in