Blood City

Several more decades passed in a blur.

Yet after all that time, Song Ankang's essence, energy, spirit, and comprehension had only improved by a few points or so. His comprehension of the Devouring Rule had not even reached one ten-thousandth. This progress was truly too slow—so slow that even Song Ankang was beginning to find it hard to bear.

At this rate, it would take at least tens of thousands of years for him to comprehend one percent of the Devouring Rule and thereby enter the Upper Three Ranks.

If his luck was poor, it might take one or two hundred thousand years. A Quasi-Saint-level cultivator only had a lifespan of a little over three hundred thousand years. In other words, comprehending the Devouring Rule would consume more than half his life.

And that would only be enough to comprehend one percent of it. If he wanted to comprehend it to completion, who knew how much longer it would take.

Song Ankang could not endure such a slow pace. He had to find a solution.

Over the past several decades, it was not as though Song Ankang had not searched for auxiliary Saint Pills and Saint Medicine like Enlightenment Pills. Unfortunately, he had found very few, especially Enlightenment Pills. He had only managed to obtain two more.

As for the other auxiliary Saint Pills and Saint Medicine, he had found a few, but regrettably, none could complement the Heaven-Stealing Forbidden Technique. Their effects were negligible, far inferior to Enlightenment Pills, which could work in tandem with the Heaven-Stealing Forbidden Technique.

Seeing how poor the results were from relying solely on the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance and the Heaven-Stealing Forbidden Technique, Song Ankang intensified his search for Enlightenment Pills. At the same time, he used all manner of methods to