There was little out of the ordinary about cultivating the fourth and fifth turns of the Nine-Turn Return-to-Elixir Method. The focus remained on accumulating Primordial Essence and Origin Qi.
Since essence and qi had been unified during the third turn, however, there was no longer any need to cultivate the two separately. Accumulating True Essence alone would strengthen both essence and qi.
But because both were being cultivated together, the fourth and fifth turns of the Origin Pill required an immense amount of True Essence, far more than an ordinary cultivator at the Late Core Formation Stage could accumulate.
Naturally, once he completed the fifth turn, his strength would also far surpass that of an ordinary cultivator at the Late Core Formation Stage. Combined with Lin Yun's immense spiritual sense and his array of Magic Treasures and Divine Abilities, even an average Nascent Soul cultivator would gain no advantage against him.
Under normal circumstances, reaching the fifth turn of the Origin Pill without the aid of high-grade pills would require decades, if not a century, of slowly accumulating True Essence.
But after siphoning off seventy percent of the Origin Qi from Man Huzi's Eighth-Level Demon Core and refining that Nascent Soul-level Origin Qi into pills, Lin Yun had saved himself an enormous amount of time. Now, he only needed to refine the pills within his body.
Their medicinal power was torrential, however. Even with his abilities, he would need several years in seclusion to fully refine it.
Time slipped leisurely by, like a white steed flashing past a crack in the wall.
In the blink of an eye, four years had passed.
The door that had remained tightly shut for four years opened with a rumble.
Calm and smiling, Lin Yun strode out of the room.
His seclusion had yielded