Published: March 3, 2025
Chapter 397: Watching the Fire Across the River
There were indeed many teams hastily advancing to participate in the "final battle."
However, Liu Yu was definitely not among them.
He was not the type to be foolishly loyal and would never put himself in danger for the benefit of the sect.
Liu Yu's gaze turned to the enchanting figure of the female cultivator before him, and a slight stirring occurred in his heart.
It must be said that after being nourished by power, this woman had indeed become more captivating.
Thinking that the two had not had any "intimate exchanges" for a long time, he could not help but reach out, pulling her into his embrace as they walked toward the bedroom.
Not long after, strange sounds began to emerge from the bedroom.
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As the rain stopped and the wind calmed, the strange sounds finally disappeared after three hours.
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After a brief moment of intimacy, facing the woman's resentful gaze, Liu Yu chose to send her away to attend to her important matters.
He then washed up and entered the practice room.
Although he could not break through to the late stage of foundation establishment at present, and his cultivation and magical power had already reached their limits, he could not afford to neglect the fundamental work.
In the spacious practice room, Liu Yu sat cross-legged on the meditation cushion, running the "qingyang skill" and patiently honing his cultivation foundation.
As time passed, a faint blue glow gradually appeared on his face.
Strictly speaking, each breakthrough in a cultivator's realm was a leap in the level of life.
If any oversight left a flaw, it could make the path ahead increasingly narrow.
To make up for it would require enormous costs and several times the effort, so Liu Yu did not want to rush without necessity.
After all, he was only fifty-four this year, which was still quite "young" compared to the two to three hundred years of lifespan typical for foundation establishment cultivators.
After three hours, he slowly finished his practice.
After a brief period of adjustment, he took the "Mind Nourishing Elixir" and practiced the art of spirit preservation.
Although his cultivation could not be raised for the time being due to solidifying his foundation, his Primordial Spirit and spiritual consciousness were not affected.
Even though his spiritual consciousness was also improving very slowly at the moment, the path of cultivating immortality was like this; it was a process where quantitative changes led to qualitative changes.
Decades had passed, and Liu Yu had long grown accustomed to this.
Time flowed silently, and it was only after five hours that this round of cultivation was complete.
"Ha~"
Liu Yu exhaled a heavy breath, and then slowly finished his cultivation, the various phenomena from his practice also dissipating.
"The flow of magical power is becoming more rounded and smooth, and my cultivation foundation has strengthened significantly again."
"The opportunity to break through to the late stage of foundation establishment is just within this month."
Liu Yu flashed this thought and felt quite satisfied with his progress.
He then ended his practice and left the practice room, but contrary to his usual behavior, he did not browse any classics on cultivation techniques; instead, he walked directly outside.
Although the team was delaying as much as possible and did not intend to advance too quickly, it did not mean he would remain idle.
The main medicinal ingredients for refining the Golden Core Pill had already been found, and he had collected fifty-three out of fifty-six auxiliary herbs.
Only three were left to complete the collection.
Liu Yu planned to take advantage of the last phase of the war in Yan State to make a few more attempts to see if he could gather all the spiritual herbs.
If everything went smoothly, the Golden Core Pill could be refined as soon as possible.
In this way, the matter of condensing the golden core would have a lead, allowing him to choose the right timing to break through the core formation bottleneck based on the situation.