Yi Yang sat cross-legged on a prayer mat, his eyelids half lowered.
Heavy snow swirled outside. Cold air slipped through the gaps in the window, yet a faint warmth steamed from his body.
He sank his awareness into his mind, and figures appeared on the panel only he could see.
[Divine Bone Blood Refining, First Layer: Iron Bone (Initiation) (486000/500000)]
Of the five hundred thousand points required, he was still fourteen thousand short of completing initiation.
Yi Yang calculated inwardly.
His cultivation had progressed so quickly thanks, of course, to external aids. Besides his own training, those four hundred eighty thousand points had come from taking the five bottles of Blood-Replenishing Pills Jiang Zhongtian had given him.
Each bottle held ten pills, making fifty in all. A single bottle of pills of this caliber could fetch more than a dozen spirit crystals.
Yet swallowing all fifty pills had only raised his progress by a little over two hundred thousand points.
Another hundred thousand had come from another trip to the Ink Abyss Marsh.
During his previous visit to the Ink Abyss Marsh, he had sensed those two "great suns" beneath the water fixing their gaze on him. When he was pulled in again this time, he dared not waste a moment and headed straight for his target.
He dove to the bottom, found the aquatic mutant beast given tangible form by an "evil thought," and unleashed every means at his disposal to kill it as quickly as possible. Before that "great sun" rose from the abyss, he had already escaped those uncanny waters.
He had sliced through the tangled knot with a swift blade-efficiently, and with a rich harvest.
This Waterside Spirit Drop had roughly the same effect as the previous one.
Yi Yang now understood that the