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Returning to his room, Li Xiao shut the door behind him, shutting out all the noise and turmoil beyond.

He walked to the bed and sat down. Rather than lying down to rest, he took out several more pills.

Thanks to the many Fifth Turn Demonic Beasts he had hunted with Huangfu Yuan earlier, Li Xiao had refined a large number of pills for his own cultivation.

The pills rolled in his palm, their medicinal fragrance faint and clear, carrying a barely perceptible fishy sweetness.

That was the scent of the flesh and blood of the Exotic Insect Zhi, now perfectly fused with the pills and utterly indistinguishable to the naked eye.

Zhi was an Exotic Insect, born bearing the fortune and destiny of heaven and earth, containing certain laws of the world. Adding Zhi's flesh and blood to the pills would not harm Li Xiao in any way.

It would even make the pills' effects several times more potent.

He placed two pills into his mouth at once and swallowed them. Then he sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, and began circulating the Three Absolutes Returning Origin Qi.

The medicinal power dissolved in his abdomen. Two warm currents, like little streams, flowed into his meridians and merged with the True Qi already rushing through them, battering that bottleneck again and again.

Within his dantian, True Qi surged like the tide.

On the Panel, the experience for Three Absolutes Returning Origin Qi slowly climbed.

Only the last few dozen points remained before the threshold of seven thousand.

Li Xiao settled his mind and drove every Distraction from his thoughts.

True Qi coursed through his meridians, round after round, like tireless tides.

Time slipped away bit by bit.

The night wind beyond the city carried the low roars of Demonic Beasts into