"Sun Miao's alchemy experience must be replicated, and Liu Wenxuan's Profound Light Mirror... I have to get my hands on that too!" Li Chengjie clenched his fists. He felt immense pressure, but he was equally full of drive.
Replication Points required a vast amount of Spirit Stones, while earning Spirit Stones required greater alchemy skills. Increasing his strength, meanwhile, required stronger divine sense and cultivation techniques... Everything seemed to form an interlocking chain, driving Li Chengjie onward.
Li Chengjie glanced at the steadily dwindling cooldown time on the panel, his gaze growing ever firmer.
His top priority was to recover from his injuries as quickly as possible and reach Falling Cloud City before the cooldown ended.
Then he would replicate Sun Miao's experience, madly refine pills to earn Spirit Stones, and build up capital for the next replication!
"Liu Wenxuan... just wait for me." Li Chengjie murmured. He then closed his eyes and circulated his cultivation with all his strength to heal his wounds, while silently nurturing his divine sense.
One month later.
When Falling Cloud City's towering, majestic walls, engraved with flowing cloud patterns, entered Li Chengjie's sight once more, he unexpectedly felt as though a lifetime had passed.
The city gates remained crowded with carriages and horses, the stream of people unending and the clamor boiling over—a stark contrast to the perpetual tension hanging over the Northern Border.
Following the crowd, Li Chengjie paid the Spirit Stones and slowly entered the city.
Li Chengjie wore an ordinary azure robe, his cultivation firmly stabilized at Qi Refining Level 8. The injury on his left shoulder had long since healed under the nourishment of pills and spiritual energy, leaving behind only a faint scar.
His expression was calm, but his eyes were deeper and more composed than when he