After putting away the Gold-Eating Insects, Xiao Yu patted another Spirit Beast Bag. A flash of white light appeared, and two white spiders, each three feet across, materialized before him.
The spiders were snow-white and crystalline, looking exceptionally beautiful. The auras they radiated had actually reached early Foundation Establishment.
Normally, spirit beasts and spirit insects advanced very slowly. But after Xiao Yu had spent more than a decade continually feeding them Insect-Nurturing Pills made from an ancient recipe, these two Blood Jade Spiders had advanced into second-level demon beasts.
Moreover, they seemed to have little trouble with developing resistance to the pills. As their cultivation grew, Xiao Yu only needed to use older medicinal herbs to refine the Insect-Nurturing Pills, and the resulting pills would still work wonders on them. He could not understand this, no matter how much he pondered it.
Over these fifteen years, not only had his spirit insects grown considerably, but Xiao Yu himself had also made good progress in cultivation.
He had now cultivated back to Foundation Establishment Peak, reaching the point where he could attempt Core Formation.
This time, while cultivating the first turn of the Three-Turn Heavy Origin Art, Xiao Yu had spent four years advancing from the early stage to the middle stage, five years reaching the late stage, and another six years reaching its peak.
Each stage had taken a year longer than before he dispersed his cultivation. This was mainly because the Three-Turn Heavy Origin Art required him to continually compress his true essence as he cultivated, demanding both a greater quantity and higher quality of magic power than before.
By that reckoning, the second and third turns would certainly take even longer. Even so, he still intended to complete all three turns before attempting Core Formation.
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