Beihan City.
After returning to their lodgings, Bai Yujing and Bai Lingyu went into seclusion together. Using that method of shifting positions seemed to have taken a tremendous toll, and they needed to recover as quickly as possible.
Chen Lin also entered a secluded chamber, treating the aftereffects of overdrawing his heart origin essence while studying the God-Slaying Staff.
"God-Slaying Seal..."
He murmured to himself.
According to Bai Yujing, the so-called God-Slaying Seal had an extremely powerful suppressive effect on divine beings and was suspected to have come from Outer Heaven. But even Bai Yujing did not know whether it worked against other cultivation systems.
This was crucial.
If it worked against every cultivation system, then even if its power was weaker, as long as it retained thirty percent of its effectiveness, it could serve as a formidable trump card.
If it only worked against the divine being system, however...
He would have to weigh its use carefully. Ideally, he would avoid using even the staff in ordinary circumstances and only bring it out at a critical moment.
There was also another consideration.
Regardless of how effective this treasure was, he had to keep strengthening his heart origin essence. Otherwise, every use would leave him in an extremely weakened state, making it difficult to employ as a regular means of attack.
Chen Lin pondered intently.
Upgrading his nine-aperture exquisite heart in a short time was essentially impossible, so he could only seek external aids.
However...
Even variegated crystal marrow could not rapidly restore his heart origin essence, and gathering similar spiritual entities of an even higher grade would be exceedingly difficult.
So far, the only such substance he had encountered was Beauty Finger juice.
"What a pity."
Recalling the Beauty Finger juice he had used up, Chen Lin could not