By then, Xiao Yu's soul had entered the Mysterious Space. Reaching a corner, he looked at the dozens of Jade Boxes before him, unable to contain his excitement.
The Jade Boxes held all the spirit medicines he had gathered in the Forbidden Grounds, including mature herbs ready for pill refining and immature seedlings.
Between the spirit medicines Xiao Yu had gathered himself and those obtained by killing others, he had unknowingly amassed this many. If he brought them outside, even Golden Core cultivators would fight tooth and nail to seize them.
His next task, naturally, was to ripen the three primary spirit medicines for Foundation Establishment Pills as soon as possible, so he could fire up the cauldron.
During breaks in his cultivation over the previous three years, Xiao Yu had already ripened enough of the thirty-one supplementary herbs to refine over a hundred pills.
This time, therefore, he only needed to ripen the three primary herbs. He already had several mature specimens of each, so ripening the remaining amount probably would not take long.
With that thought, Xiao Yu checked his other supplies, then left the space and began his daily routine of ripening spirit medicines and drawing talismans.
Just like that, three months swiftly passed, day by day.
During that time, Xiao Yu learned the Blood Refining Secret Art he had obtained in the Forbidden Grounds, then used the mysterious Heavenly Book to optimize it into a new Blood Refining Secret Art. Once he had mastered the new art, all that remained was to reach Foundation Establishment and blood-refine his magic tools.
That day, after dealing with the inspecting manager's routine inspection of the Medicinal Garden, Xiao Yu gathered all the ripened spirit medicines and headed to the Earthfire Hall!
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