Inside the Training Room.
Li Ping slowly opened his eyes. His gaze remained unfocused for a long while before he finally came to his senses after the illusion.
Just as he had expected, the Soul Refining Pearl's former owner had indeed been an old monster in the Nascent Soul Realm who specialized in corpse refining. And he had indeed refined a fourth-tier Silver-Winged Yaksha!
After his Corpse Refining Art reached the fourth tier, he had even pored over every scripture and secret art related to corpse refining in the cultivation world, all to revive his elder sister, who had already been refined into a zombie.
Li Ping believed that, with this man's heavenly spiritual root aptitude and talent for corpse refining, he might have reached even greater heights in the art had he not strayed down the crooked path of "Yin-Yang Reversal."
"His elder sister..."
A trace of wistfulness appeared in Li Ping's eyes. He could not readily judge what Ye Xu had done throughout his life, but his determination to revive his sister had moved him deeply.
But the dead could not return to life. Since she had already been refined into a Walking Corpse and every spark of vitality extinguished, his attempt to revive his sister had, naturally, ended in failure.
"He was a pitiful man, too!"
Li Ping sighed, then turned his awareness toward the Inheritance Tree on the first Gray Island in his Sea of Consciousness. Above the branch representing third-tier lower-grade formations, he discovered a much longer, thicker branch jutting out.
A line of text flickered faintly upon it: [Corpse Refining Craftsman: fourth-tier lower-grade].
Li Ping grew thoughtful as he mulled over the many new memories in his mind.
Although Ye Xu's actual skill in the Corpse Refining Art had only reached fourth-tier lower-grade, his