["Heavenly Pillar Grotto-Heaven..."] [Relevant information surfaced in your mind.] [This grotto-heaven opened once every eight hundred years. Its entrance was controlled by the Void Unity Sect, one of the Three Spell Paths.] [The Three Spell Paths of Recent Antiquity were the Heavenly Profound Sect, the Ten Thousand Spells Sect, and the Void Unity Sect.] [Thus, the Three Spell Paths were also known as the Three Sects.] [Heavenly Pillar Grotto-Heaven retained its original appearance from the Primordial Era, and numerous spiritual and precious herbs that had long since vanished during Recent Antiquity grew within it.] [As a fourth-tier upper-grade Alchemy Grandmaster, you were nevertheless unable to refine pills that aided breakthroughs during the Nascent Soul late stage. The main reason was a lack of raw materials.] [*"As long as I reap some gains in Heavenly Pillar Grotto-Heaven, the time I need to cultivate to the peak of the late stage will shrink dramatically, leaving me more energy and attention for other things..."*] [You thought silently.]
``` [In the thirtieth year, you were forty-seven.]
[A roc with blood-colored wings stood obediently before you.]
[It was none other than the Blood Roc, which possessed a true spirit bloodline.]
[After thirty years of nurturing, the Blood Roc had successfully reached its prime, one or two hundred years ahead of its natural growth.]
[At this moment, the Blood Roc's strength was roughly at the very limit of the fourth-tier early stage.]
[To advance any further, it would need to enter the fourth-tier middle stage.]
[For a Beast King with a true spirit bloodline, this step was even more difficult than a human advancing from the Nascent Soul early stage to the Nascent Soul middle stage.]
[Beast Kings with true spirit bloodlines had demanding environmental requirements. During the Primordial Era, a creature with