A day and a night had passed unknowingly since the fierce battle with the Great Fighting Master. With the gentle nourishment of the Vermillion Bird's Burning Sky Thunder, Mo Yu's body was slowly recovering.
As his meridians and muscles returned to normal, the warm energy flowing through his body gradually subsided.
When the external energy finally disappeared completely, Mo Yu emerged from the darkness of unconsciousness and opened his eyes, feeling a sharp headache and intense pain in his mind.
"It hurts!"
Mo Yu covered his head, looking a little pale. "It seems that the soul skill was used too recklessly."
For ordinary people, the exhaustion of fighting spirit is a significant issue and takes a long time to recover from. However, for Mo Yu, who possesses the special Suzaku Burning Sky Thunder physique and the Tiangang Thunder Body, recovery is not as complicated.
However, the depletion of soul power is more troublesome. Although the principles of soul skills and fighting skills are similar, soul skills require a greater amount of soul power compared to fighting skills. This is why many soul skills have become lost in the Douqi Continent.
For Mo Yu, a third-grade alchemist, the loss of soul power when performing a Xuan-grade intermediate soul skill is comparable to the loss of fighting spirit when using a Di-grade fighting skill.
Without external help, Mo Yu suffered significant pain from the depleted soul power.
"By the way, some of the herbs given by the Little Medical Fairy seem useful in treating soul power," Mo Yu thought, his black eyes suddenly lighting up as he recalled something.
Despite the pain in his head, he retrieved the six jade bottles given by the Little Medical Fairy from his ring.
Examining the bottles, he noticed the second one on the left emitted a thin mist and contained crystal-clear needle-like green grass. A smile appeared on his face.
"Resurrection Grass!"
Although this herb is only a mid-level medicinal herb worth a few thousand gold coins, it has a certain restorative effect on soul power.
While it cannot completely restore Mo Yu's damaged soul power, it is not entirely useless. Moreover, he had a perfect recipe for using this herb to maximize its medicinal power.
Half a day later, torches hanging on the walls of the spacious cave provided a warm light. Mo Yu, now staring at a white jade bottle in his hand, saw that the liquid inside was turquoise. He waved his hand around the bottle's mouth and found that the light green liquid contained a strong pure energy.
"The Soul-Restoring Elixir has finally been refined."
In his previous life, Mo Yu often had his soul power exhausted due to overuse. Therefore, he was very familiar with recipes for restoring soul power.
Although the grade of this Soul-Restoring Grass is not high, refining it into Soul-Restoring Liquid yielded excellent results, and it could even be considered a second-grade elixir.
With a slight smile, Mo Yu swallowed the light green liquid in one gulp.
As the green liquid entered his body, Mo Yu felt a warm energy spreading deep into his brain. This energy alleviated the pain in his head and began to slowly restore the exhausted soul power.
Although the recovery was slow—less than one-tenth the speed of recovering fighting spirit—the young man was very content.
Soul power is different from fighting spirit. It is a very abstract force, making its use and recovery extremely complex.
Half a quarter of an hour passed, and as the effect of the Soul-Restoring Liquid began to fade, Mo Yu slowly opened his eyes.
"What a pity; it would be nice to have a few more plants of Soul-Restoring Grass." The refreshing feeling dissipated, and Mo Yu shook his head. His soul power was still significantly depleted. Although the Soul-Restoring Liquid had been helpful, the quantity was still insufficient.
"Forget it, I'll recover the rest slowly."
Stretching lazily, Mo Yu was not ungrateful. A Soul-Restoring Grass had already put him in a relatively good condition. The remaining soul loss would have to be restored gradually.
After resting for another hour with his breath stabilized, Mo Yu opened his eyes and took out a light green storage ring from his arms.
This storage ring was the one Mo Yu had taken from Mo Yin's blown-off arm after the explosion caused by the Dark Snake Shadow Sword.
Mo Yu had been able to control the explosion of the Dark Snake Shadow Sword because he mastered a secret technique called the "Weapon Explosion Technique."
This secret method is not useful in combat but can be used to hide a mark when refining weapons. This mark is very discreet and can only be discovered by the weapon's owner. Once triggered, the weapon will immediately disintegrate and explode.
Although Mo Yu was a master of weapon refining in his previous life, he also had many enemies. Once, an enemy had used a weapon he had refined to attack him, nearly causing his death. Learning from his mistakes, Mo Yu developed the "Weapon Explosion" technique.
After his rebirth, this skill had become second nature to him, and he had casually marked the Dark Snake Shadow Sword, never expecting to actually use it.
Thinking of this, Mo Yu couldn't help but reflect on how unpredictable the world is. At the same time, he developed a deep murderous intent towards Mo Yin and the Mo family behind him.
If it weren't for his powerful means, he would have perished here!
After a while, Mo Yu suppressed the intense murderous intent and began to examine the ring.
Although it was just a low-level storage ring, Mo Yu was quite interested in it as it was the collection of a Great Fighting Master.
Mo Yu successfully penetrated his soul force into the ring. His eyes lit up when he noticed a light golden, imposing, and several-meter-long linear object in the corner.
"Taixuan Gold Thread!"
This was one of the two main materials needed to refine the 'Fire Containment Hood.' Finding it in Mo Yin's storage ring was an unexpected bonus.
Before Mo Yu could fully enjoy his discovery, he found another third-level magic core in the ring. The young man felt that those who survive disasters will be blessed in the future.
Mo Yin had been his first formidable enemy since his rebirth, bringing him great trouble. Fortunately, Mo Yu had successfully overcome these difficulties and obtained valuable spoils.
A third-tier magic core, being comparable to a human master fighter, is much more precious than a second-tier magic core. Even in the large city of Wutan, third-tier magic cores are extremely scarce.
With this third-tier magic core, Mo Yu could quickly advance to the nine-star fighter level.
After transferring all the items from the light green storage ring into his beast ring, Mo Yu put it back into his arms.
At this point, Mo Yu was aware of his current location. To avoid Mo Yin's pursuit, he had to venture deeper into the Warcraft Mountains.
Unlike the periphery, where there are many high-level monsters, the inner regions of the Warcraft Mountains feature not only level five but also level six monsters.
Thus, Mo Yu spent most of his time hiding in the cave to practice and occasionally went out to hunt low-level monsters for food.
Having set up his nest here, he was isolated from Mo Yin's assassination attempts and could practice quietly. His fighting spirit became more refined, like brewing fine wine.
A month after waking from his coma, Mo Yu's spiritual power had gradually recovered and even improved.
He began preparing for a breakthrough. After successfully absorbing the third-level magic core with Xuan Lei, the violent energy from the core allowed the Suzaku Burning Sky Thunder to grow rapidly.
With Xuan Lei's assistance, Mo Yu naturally broke through to the nine-star fighter level and was only one step away from becoming a master fighter.
Just as he stood up, a violent energy wave and a thunderous lion roar erupted from the sky.
"Is this... the aura of a Dou Huang?"