Xu Qingtong pondered for a while, then let out a long sigh. Returning his master Yu Xuzi's remains would have to be set aside for now. Dwelling on it was pointless; he should attend to what lay before him!
After settling his mood, Xu Qingtong immersed himself in Yu Xuzi's Alchemy Insights and began studying them carefully.
He had read this Jade Slip many times before, yet each reading left him with a different impression.
After finishing the Jade Slip, Xu Qingtong compared it against his own insights from pill refining, identified the differences, and pondered them carefully before putting the Jade Slip away.
He took out the ingredients for refining Nine Yin Pills one by one, arranged them before him, and set to work refining pills.
Half a month later, Xu Qingtong's alchemical skill had made a qualitative leap. He could now refine high-grade Mid-grade Nine Yin Pills. This meant his alchemical skill had reached the level of a fourth-tier Alchemist.
Over that half month, Xu Qingtong had used up nearly all his ingredients for refining Nine Yin Pills. In the stone basin inside the Seven-Star Bracelet, only a palm-sized piece of flesh lingzhi remained, and not a single auxiliary material was left!
His gains, however, were considerable. Besides advancing to a fourth-tier Alchemist, he now had nearly two hundred Mid-grade Nine Yin Pills in his Seven-Star Bracelet, sixty of which were high-grade!
With a stir of Xu Qingtong's mind, a flood of information came from his incarnation.
It turned out that while his main body had been in seclusion refining pills, the Grand Elder and Fang Tianqi had already led the disciples of Gloomwind Valley in relocating to Cloudsky Peak.
Following his incarnation's arrangements, over a hundred houses had been added within the peak, and several guard posts