The vast Nine-Bend Peak housed only twelve disciples and one Inner Sect elder. Unless they deliberately gathered, someone walking through the mountain might not encounter a single disciple all day.
But that suited Chen Yu perfectly. He liked peace and quiet.
After passing the assessment and somehow becoming Nine-Bend Peak's Senior Master Brother, Chen Yu chose an empty patch beside a waterfall to build his house.
Building a house alone was rather troublesome, but his ten junior brothers volunteered to help. With over ten people working together, a stone house was finished in less than half a day.
As for Lü Yanyan, she built her house not far from Chen Yu's, only a few minutes away.
In the blink of an eye, a month had passed since he became Nine-Bend Peak's Senior Master Brother.
During that month, Chen Yu had developed an advanced version of Fire-Poison Powder. However, it still was not the poison formula lost a thousand years ago, but an enhanced version of Fire-Poison Powder-a weakened version of that lost formula.
Elder Yun had only required him to improve Fire-Poison Powder within three months. There was no need to produce the lost formula outright.
Not only would that easily arouse suspicion, it would also seem far too ingratiating.
With two months still remaining before Elder Yun's inspection, Chen Yu stopped researching the poison path.
Time to take a look at the Inner Sect's Scripture Repository.
The Foundation Establishment Realm techniques he had previously cultivated, the True Yang Technique and the Mountain-Subduing Technique, had both reached their current level caps. Next, he needed to cultivate a metal-attribute technique. Unfortunately, the best metal-attribute technique in the Immortal Ruins was only yellow-tier middle-grade, far inferior to the other two.
That was why Chen Yu had decided to try his luck at