That night, Chen Shi did not sleep a wink. He spent the entire time cultivating the Three Lights Righteous Qi Art, stepping on the Big Dipper as the seven stars tempered his body.
Seeing him work so hard, Li Tianqing could not help but feel immense admiration and joined in the cultivation. However, after a short while, he grew too tired and went back to bed.
Even though Chen Shi cultivated without a single moment of rest, the azure ghost hand flared up once more, gripping his heart tighter and tighter. Fortunately, knowing that he had killed twelve people, the ghost hand would act up at night, so he had prepared early on.
Enduring the excruciating pain, Chen Shi gritted his teeth and kept cultivating, finally riding out this wave of the affliction.
Only then did he dare to sleep.
By the time the dogs barked, it was already the fifth morning of the demon transformation.
Chen Shi and Li Tianqing went out to search for spirit beasts. They had to gather as much food as possible during the early stages of the demon transformation, or else the spirit beasts would not hold out either and turn into porcelain as the transformation deepened.
If they failed to gather food in the early stage, they would starve to death later.
Today's harvest was still scarce. Chen Shi spotted a Feng Xi about the same size as the one he had hunted before, but unfortunately, that Feng Xi had grown smart. The moment it saw them, it bolted, and the two boys and the dog failed to catch up.
They only hunted one spirit camel. This spirit beast was small, only about the size of an ordinary plum blossom deer, weighing a little over a hundred jin.
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