Qing Chen sighed deeply. "I thought those second-tier demon beasts and cultivator corpses I spent so many spirit stones buying would be enough to help me open the Third Brahma Aperture.
"Once that aperture opened, my cultivation would surely soar, and breaking through to the Middle Golden Core Stage would be just around the corner.
"Who would have thought that one attempt would reveal how far short I was? The resources were nowhere near enough. Fortunately, I stopped in time.
"Since I cannot open the Third Brahma Aperture, I will pour all these resources into advancing my cultivation instead!"
More than six years had slipped by. Although Qing Chen had consumed an astonishing quantity of qi and blood;
on closer reckoning, it amounted to no more than the entire flesh and blood of one White Devil Lynx.
After all, most of the time, Qing Chen had relied on his two Brahma Apertures to accelerate his absorption of the medicinal power in twelve bottles of Chiling Pills, without burning large quantities of qi and blood.
He had also intermittently used his body and the baleful core within him to refine demon cores and third-tier baleful intent.
At present, Qing Chen still possessed the demon beast and cultivator corpses Xu Jiuling and Gao Yuliang had painstakingly obtained by mobilizing numerous cultivators and exchanging large quantities of congratulatory gifts.
These corpses were worth over six hundred thousand spirit stones.
Those heaps of flesh and bones had long since filled the Three Demon Banners well over halfway, waiting to be used in Qing Chen's cultivation.
Qing Chen steeled himself, gritted his teeth, and took another four bottles of medicinal pills from his Storage Ring.
Three of them contained the mid-grade third-tier Clear Void Yang-Transforming Pills Ye Wushang had given him.
For Middle Golden Core