Inside a detached building in the rear courtyard of the Witch Guild headquarters, Moon Ring City—District 1.
The trees were lush, and a flock of blue-necked herons flew over the three-story building before landing beside the shallow lake behind it. It was astonishing that such a lake existed in the rear courtyard of the Moon Witch Guild headquarters.
From afar, the lake had a fairly small island at its center. An ancient yet imposing sculpture stood upon it: a giant wolf threw back its head and howled. On moonlit nights, one could see cyan moonlight slowly drifting from the sculpture.
In the third-floor bedroom, Su Xiao sat against the headboard, looking somewhat exhausted. This was not only because he had suffered severe injuries in his death match with the Ancient King, but also because those injuries had intensified the Demon Spirit's invasion.
The resulting chain reaction slowed his recovery considerably. In the past, after fighting a powerful enemy to the death, his attainments in alchemy allowed him to recover seventy to eighty percent of his condition within a few hours and return to his peak within two days.
This time, several hours had passed, and despite being nourished by various potions, Su Xiao had recovered only fifty percent. He would need at least five days to return to full condition.
For other Transcendents, this was already an extremely fast recovery speed. After all, they had fought an opponent of the same level. Sometimes, after their origin was injured, they might need decades or even centuries of recuperation.
The problem was that Su Xiao was a Hunter. His stay in a world could be as short as half a month to twenty days, though it was generally around a month. In a Transcendence World like the Witch Realm, he would stay