After returning to his cave abode, Xiao Yu entered the Cultivation Room and turned his hand over, producing eight five-colored beads the size of broad beans. These were the Heaven Mending Pills he had obtained by incinerating the skeleton on the Ancient Teleportation Array.
He held them before his eyes and examined them carefully with both his divine sense and his naked eyes, but found nothing amiss.
Without further hesitation, he placed one in his mouth.
The beads felt rather hard on the outside, but they softened rapidly as soon as they entered his mouth.
Xiao Yu swallowed it into his belly and began refining it with his pill flame.
A year later, Xiao Yu finished refining all the beads. He then began preparing to forge his magic treasures.
First came the preparations involving his technical abilities. His current proficiency with array formations and restrictions was entirely sufficient. While accelerating the growth of the golden thunder bamboo, he would only need to refresh his knowledge occasionally.
As for artifact refining, after decades of intermittent practice, Xiao Yu could already forge top-tier magic tools, though he was still not very proficient. Over the next two years, he would need to focus on improving his artifact refining skills to ensure that he succeeded in forging his magic treasures on the first attempt.
Next came the materials for the magic treasures. The two stalks of golden thunder bamboo still required a little over two and a half years of accelerated growth. He was also missing roughly half the other materials, so obtaining those would be his first order of business.
Having sorted out his thoughts, Xiao Yu set to work. Each day, he used the remaining demon beast materials in his possession to practice artifact refining once or twice, then went out to