Xiao Yu could not imagine how much time it would have taken him to find all these medicinal ingredients on his own.
Perhaps he could only have begun searching after reaching the Central Plains and establishing himself there. After all, without status or strength, who would be kind enough to help him?
Over the past year, the Northwest Alliance had successfully settled into working together. Even if the factions that had initially been reluctant to join were now told to leave, none would have been willing.
After all, they had reaped tremendous benefits that year. The pills alone had given those Dou Zong a substantial boost in strength.
Thus, Xiao Yu had collected quite a few pill formulas and medicinal ingredients over the year, all of excellent quality. Unfortunately, most were formulas for Sixth-Grade Pills. Only the Heavenly Snake Mansion had yielded a Seventh-grade Intermediate pill formula.
Of course, he already had quite a few seventh-grade pill formulas. He had even made them public: anyone who gathered the ingredients and paid the required points could have him refine the pills.
Upon seeing those pill formulas, the factions had gone mad searching for ingredients, practically turning the entire Northwest Continent upside down.
As a result, Xiao Yu had refined Seventh-Grade Pills no fewer than ten times over the year.
While refining so many Seventh-Grade Pills, Xiao Yu had also endured every bout of pill lightning head-on. His entire skeleton had now become monstrously strong, and with the aid of the pill lightning and a year of cultivation, his Dou Qi cultivation had broken through to Seven-Star Dou Zong.
To others, such progress was terrifying indeed. Those Dou Zong found it exceedingly difficult to advance even one star, and once they reached the middle Dou Zong ranks, the difficulty increased severalfold.
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