Excluding ancient spirit treasures, heavenly fire spirit nethergrass ranked among the very best pills and spirit treasures in the current Cultivation World.
For Fire Element cultivators, its effects were even slightly better than those of the Truth-Restoring Pill.
"Sigh..."
His brows tightly knitted, Liu Yu let out a quiet sigh.
Among the spirit treasures currently found in the Cultivation World, very few surpassed heavenly fire spirit nethergrass, and fewer still could be obtained through trade.
Chaos is approaching. Relying on slow, patient effort to break through this bottleneck would waste far too much time. That approach won't do.
It seems I still have to pin my hopes on more potent ancient spirit treasures.
The thought flashed through Liu Yu's mind.
Although his breakthrough had failed, his timing was fortunate. Ancient secret realms were emerging one after another, bringing many ancient spirit treasures back into circulation.
With his present strength, he stood a good chance of obtaining them through trading and other means.
Now that his Body Refining cultivation had pulled ahead, Liu Yu had indeed considered reaching the Fifth Tier through Body Refining first.
But after careful consideration, he ultimately abandoned the idea.
It came back to the same principle: of essence, qi, and spirit, the flesh, which represented essence, was the most stable and the hardest to transform.
If the resources needed for a Qi Refining breakthrough amounted to one, those needed for a Body Refining breakthrough amounted to ten, or even a hundred!
Precisely for this reason, even during the most prosperous period of Upper Antiquity, Fifth-Tier body cultivators had been scarce. After that age, their path had declined rapidly.
Of course, the main reason was that Liu Yu still had no real idea how to reach the Fifth Tier through Body Refining. All he knew was that