With the Demoness's tail in hand, Li Bai brushed the Spirit Crystal dust off himself and climbed out of bed. After narrowly escaping death's door, his legs were still weak.
He'd spent more than ten days working himself to the bone, only to return to square one overnight. And he'd come within a hair's breadth of losing his life.
The Chaos Green Lotus and the ever-present Outer Heavenly Evil God remained locked in a fragile balance within his mind. Exhausted, Li Bai didn't want to keep cultivating. He wasn't short that little bit of Spiritual Power, anyway.
His eight extraordinary meridians refined essence into Qi on their own. From time to time, a wisp of True Qi rose from his lower dantian, only to be snatched away by the Chaos Green Lotus and used to replace the Spiritual Power he'd lost when he stopped reciting the Maha Bolan Sutra.
Li Bai just wanted to eat a big meal and then get some sleep.
Even if he recovered all his cultivation, completely suppressing the Outer Heavenly Evil God would probably take more than a day or two. Destroying it would take who knew how long.
If the Outer Heavenly Evil God were that easy to deal with, the spellcraft and martial arts of the otherworld wouldn't have been toyed with like monkeys, driven to turn on each other and wage a full-blown civil war.
He grabbed his phone and ordered a mountain of takeout. Then he sank listlessly into the living room sofa, waiting for the Takeout Rider to come save him.
The Qingyao Demoness was going all out just to get a meal.
Her innate ability, "Spiritual Eye Illusion," had drained every last bit of her Spiritual Power. To strengthen its effect, she'd even burned through the little Demonic Qi