“This is a pill personally refined by the old master,” Grand Ravenwood responded. “It gathers over a hundred rare and precious materials, undergoing ninety-nine intricate steps before finally becoming a pill. This pill doesn’t have a specific name. It was specially refined by the old master for the cultivation of the Golden Bloodline of the Holy Son.”
“According to him, considering your situation, by refining two of these pills while activating your bloodline power, you should be able to advance one level!”
“Oh?” Billy raised an eyebrow.
“The old master knows that ordinary cultivation resources have limited effects on you since you awakened the Golden Bloodline.” Grand Ravenwood continued, “That’s why, since the last time you left, he has been working on refining these four pills, putting in a lot of effort, and luckily, he succeeded in the end!”
“Elder Shep is thoughtful!” Billy expressed his gratitude. “I will accept these four pills!”
To him, whether or not he acknowledged Shep Ravenwood as his family was a separate matter. He was willing to accept this gesture.
Seeing Billy accept the pills, Grand Ravenwood finally breathed a sigh of relief. He had been worried that Billy wouldn’t want to accept anything from the Ravenwood family.
“Holy Son, you can try refining two of them!” Grand Ravenwood said. “I’ll go see if others need help.”
“Thank you!” Billy nodded in response.
“No problem!” Grand Ravenwood said before turning and walking towards Casey and the others.
Shortly after, Billy didn’t hesitate any longer. He found a slightly empty spot and sat cross-legged. Soon after activating his bloodline power, he swallowed two of the pills. The pills were indeed extraordinary. As soon as they entered his throat, Billy felt a refreshing and cool stream of Chi flowing throughout his body. After a while, he could clearly feel several warm streams merging into the Chi Ocean, and his Dantian greedily absorbed them like a drought-stricken land welcoming rain. Without much thought, Billy immediately activated Heart Sutra of the Azure Void to guide the warm streams in circulation.
Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, an hour had gone by. At this moment, the dragon mark between Billy’s brows became clearer again, and his aura fluctuated, sometimes strong, sometimes weak.
Boom! After a few more minutes, a vast and majestic aura burst out from his body, several levels stronger than his previous aura.
“Congratulations on breaking through to the Half-Step Saint!” Grand Ravenwood, not far away, looked at Billy and smiled.
“Thank you!” Billy responded with a faint smile.
Indeed, he had made a breakthrough! He couldn’t help but admire the two pills refined by Shep Ravenwood. They truly deserved to be the crystallization of over a hundred rare and precious materials, surpassing the effects of those thousand-year spirit fruits by several times. Their efficacy was comparable to directly absorbing the essence of heaven and earth in the Spirit Spring. Billy could clearly feel that he hadn’t fully refined the medicinal properties of the two pills yet, but his chi energy had broken through the bottleneck.
After a while, he adjusted his breath and stood up. Then, he looked at Casey and the others, who were still meditating and cultivating. Feeling bored, Billy picked up the animal skin scroll and started studying it. He was curious about the owner of this sword technique and whether there was any connection with Ether Mountain.
After approximately twenty minutes, Billy took Harleen’s sword and walked to a flat ground two kilometers away to practice. Because he had a foundation in the Ether Mountain sword technique, it was easy for him to pick up. In no time, he immersed himself in it.
Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, three to four hours had passed. Billy seemed to have ignored the world around him, completely immersed in the sword art. Sword shadows filled the sky.
Casey and the others had already finished refining all the spirit fruits and spirit stones. They stood a kilometer away, watching Billy. Just from the imposing aura of the countless sword shadows, they could roughly sense that the power of this Heavenly Unity Sword Technique was definitely superior to the Ether Mountain sword technique.
“Heaven and Earth, myriad swords as one. Heavenly Unity Sword Technique, strike!”
The next moment, after Billy uttered these words in a deep voice, the countless sword shadows quickly merged into one. Then, like a falling meteor, he struck towards a mountain peak not too tall nor too short, two kilometers away, causing the entire void to quiver.
Boom! A deafening sound reverberated through the sky, like a thunderbolt on a clear day. The powerful shock-wave instantly razed the area where the sword strike landed to the ground. At the same time, the mountain peak two kilometers away was split in half by the force of the sword. From the power of this strike, it was evident that it was no less formidable than the Domineering Blade Art. More importantly, Billy had just started his cultivation, so this was only unleashing about one-fifth of its true power.
Gasps of astonishment escaped Casey and the others as they witnessed this scene, their faces filled with shock. Even Grand Ravenwood couldn’t hide his surprise. He was certain that even a Second-Rank Saint wouldn’t be able to easily withstand that strike.
The Holy Son was only at the Half-Step Saint Realm now. Given time, when he officially broke through to the Saint realm, how much stronger would he become?!
“Boss!”
Casey and the others approached.
“Are you all done?” Billy looked at them after toning down his aura. After assessing everyone, he couldn’t help but smile faintly. “Not bad, you didn’t waste those spirit fruits and spirit stones!”
Using his spiritual power, he examined their cultivation levels and found that they were as he had expected. With the help of the Mysterious Ice Spirit Fruits and the high-grade spiritual stones, everyone, except for Casey, had successfully broken through.
Casey had already reached the late stage of the Eighth-Rank Sovereign and was just one step away from the Ninth-Rank. Ernest Shepherd and Otis Hum had also made significant progress, both breaking through to the Ninth-Rank Sovereign.
“Everyone’s successful breakthrough wouldn’t have been possible without Elder Grand Ravenwood’s help, Billy. Without his assistance, we wouldn’t have been so fortunate.” Harleen spoke up.
“Indeed!” Ivy and the others nodded in agreement.
“Thank you, Elder Grand Ravenwood!” Billy said.
“It’s my pleasure. And I merely did what was within my power.” Grand Ravenwood responded.
“Boss, did you also make a breakthrough?” Casey asked Billy.
Upon hearing her question, everyone turned to look at Billy.
“It’s all thanks to the pills given by Elder Ravenwood!” Billy smiled.
“Boss, did you really break through to the Half-Step Saint?” Stout exclaimed.
“Yes!” Billy smiled again.
“That’s fantastic!” Harleen, Ivy, and Night Orchid were all ecstatic.
The rest of the group’s faces also lit up with joy, happy for their boss.
“Boss, that strike you just unleashed, was it the Heavenly Unity Sword Technique?” Bob asked Billy.
“Yes!” Billy nodded in response. “I’ll pass it on to all of you. Take some time to practice it yourselves!”
“Thanks, Boss!” Bob’s eyes sparkled with excitement.
Following that, Billy took his time to teach the sword technique to Harleen, Felicia, Ivy, Bob, Rakshasa, and the others.
Later, they headed back to the town.