After testing the changes in his magic power and divine sense, Xiao Yu entered his cave abode and took his avatar on a tour of its various chambers.
He first entered the medicinal garden. It had changed considerably since the beginning, and dozens of lush stalks of millennium spirit medicine now flourished within. Over the years, his avatar had accelerated their growth according to the pill recipes, preparing for his advancement to the Nascent Soul Stage.
According to the pill recipes he possessed for improving Nascent Soul Stage cultivation, he only needed to find the few missing spirit medicines before he could mature them and fire up his furnace to refine pills.
Two special restrictions stood to either side of the medicinal garden's center. Within them grew the soul-nurturing wood and the Nine-Curved Spirit Ginseng's True Form.
The soul-nurturing wood had now grown to look exactly like the piece in Void Sky Hall. Long ago, Xiao Yu had also fashioned some of its wood into a string of beads, which he wore around his neck. These beads constantly nourished his divine soul, and they had played a considerable role during the heart demon's backlash just moments earlier.
The silver flower atop the nine-curved spirit ginseng had grown even more radiant, while the little rabbit it had manifested was leisurely playing in the medicinal garden.
Recalling how he had refined pills two years earlier, Xiao Yu could not help smiling knowingly. He had not used the nine-curved spirit ginseng's true form as an ingredient. Instead, he had cut the little rabbit's leg and drawn its blood for the pills.
With Xiao Yu's current skill in pill refining, he had succeeded in making the miraculous nine-curved spirit ginseng medicine after only three failures. Each time he drew the rabbit's blood, he applied