Hei Lou Lan sat cross-legged on the stone-slab bed, cultivating with complete focus.
After a long time, she slowly opened her eyes.
Lowering her head slightly, she saw a totem on her chest.
The totem was exceedingly simple, made of only a few strokes, yet its lines were powerful. With those scant strokes, it depicted a black cat.
The black cat was small and adorably clumsy, its tail raised as it crouched back on its haunches, front paws gripping the ground, poised as though it would pounce forward the next instant.
"Huang Jizi lent me a complete set of Gu worms. With their help, the first form of my Totem Killer Move has already taken shape."
Hei Lou Lan calculated the time again.
From the moment she had arrived here to the completion of the totem's first form, exactly thirty days had passed.
During those thirty days, Hei Lou Lan had never stepped outside. Other than eating, drinking, and answering nature's call, she cultivated without pause.
She had not relaxed for even a moment, pushing herself to the utmost.
An argument suddenly broke out outside the tent.
"Blue Phoenix Clan Leader, you have gone too far!"
"That's right. These past days, how much food from the clan treasury have you used up, all for your illegitimate daughter?"
"At the beginning, you used the meat of an Ancient Primeval Beast Unicorn Paouzi to stew soup and whet your daughter's appetite. Then you cooked Snake and Rat Nest soup, using nothing but Ancient Primeval Beast snakes and rats, all just to calculate the most precise diet! In the days that followed, you practically emptied our clan treasury. The ingredients you used were at least Primeval Beast level."
"We elected you as clan leader, yet you have used public resources for private gain.