With his aptitude as a cultivator with three spiritual roots, once he broke through the bottleneck into late Qi refining, nothing else would stand in his way before Qi refining perfection-unless his luck was exceptionally poor.
Liu Yu carefully assessed the changes after his breakthrough to the eighth layer of Qi refining. First, the range of his divine sense had increased from sixty-eight zhang to seventy-five. Second, his total magical power had grown by roughly thirty percent, though this was only an increase in quantity, with no qualitative difference.
Overall, his strength had increased, but not by much.
The growth of his divine sense was insufficient to control a fourth Superior-grade Magical Artifact or a third Top-grade Magical Artifact. His greater reserves of magical power, however, allowed him to wield his magical artifacts for longer, indirectly increasing his strength.
Thoughts surged through Liu Yu's mind as he took stock of the changes in his primordial spirit and magical power.
Taking one Jade Spirit Pill every day, Liu Yu had advanced from the seventh layer of Qi refining to the eighth in less than two years, slightly faster even than cultivators with a dual spiritual root.
The five hundred-odd Jade Spirit Pills he had consumed were worth around five thousand spirit stones. An expenditure like that would have bankrupted a small lineage such as the Feng Household outright.
Even a Foundation Establishment or Golden Core lineage would never invest so many spirit stones in a single direct descendant over just two years. After all, with so many clansmen, it would be difficult to convince everyone to accept it.
An ordinary cultivator with three spiritual roots, taking a pill every six or seven days to cultivate, would need at least five or six years to advance a single layer in late Qi