Chapter 423: No Way Forward.
The size of the technique was very large because of its high rank, so it would take a few minutes to digest it. He could spare a few minutes so he didn't mind.
But what made things worse was that the Blood Pill Daoist also left her experimental notes and records as part of the Inheritance. This extended the amount of time he needed to use to digest the Inheritance by 100 times.
The experimental notes recorded the process and outcomes of experiments performed over a period of 100 years. So there were thousands upon thousands of experiments and notes. It would take him hours to assimilate everything.
While he was receiving the inheritance, he learned that the Blood Pill Daoist had made the attempt to copy the Inner Pill Art because she was at the peak of the fourth mortal coil and didn't have a way to reach the fifth mortal coil.
She was at the peak of the golden core realm, but she lacked a technique to help her advance. So she tried to copy a superior technique. The result was that she both failed and succeeded. Ifyou'renotonM*VLEM*PYR,you'reviewingacopy.
The Life Pill Art failed her because it was too late for her to use it, and even if she were willing to risk her life to start all over, the foundation cultivated with it couldn't grow.
So she would be stuck at the third mortal coil if she managed to survive the process of severing her cultivation from the fourth mortal coil down to the second mortal coil in order to start again.
What's worse is that there were many other techniques that could create foundations and advancement in power that was capable of growth. These were techniques meant to be used by desperate people.
There was such a technique, and it could help her advance to the nascent soul realm. Of course, if she had used that technique, she wouldn't be able to grow stronger once she reached the nascent soul realm and would be stuck in the early stages of it.
So her years of research and hard work turned out to be a waste. After all, if all she wanted was a failed technique, she didn't need to go so far just to create one from scratch. She could have spent all that time and resources to do something more worthwhile.