Her physical body had grown stronger.
Though for Jiang Yuechu, who had now entered the middle stage of Lamp-Lighting, this slight improvement was hardly earth-shattering...
But one mustn't forget: this was only one aperture, and only one demon.
If one day, she could fill the apertures throughout her body with all the gods, Buddhas, demons, and monsters in the heavens...
What would that look like?
Jiang Yuechu took a deep breath, suppressing the restless stirring in her heart.
She turned her head slightly and looked at the panel again.
Her mind settled a little.
Good.
The demons she had recorded hadn't vanished completely after being refined.
If each one disappeared after a single use, this deal would be a bit of a loss.
Since they were still there...
A glint flickered in Jiang Yuechu's eyes as she moved her mind.
"Come out."
The bathroom was utterly silent.
Jiang Yuechu furrowed her brows slightly and tried again, urging her divine sense.
Bzz—
The silver markings on her right arm suddenly grew scorching hot. The demon soul within the aperture stirred, but that was all.
Looking at the empty floor, Jiang Yuechu lowered her arm with a helpless sigh.
It seemed there really was no such thing as getting something for nothing.
In the past, when she summoned demons to fight at her side, she only needed to expend her own qi after they died to reconstruct their bodies and send them back into battle.
But now, after using the Great Black Heaven Body-Forging Scripture...
The demon souls had been forcibly confined within her apertures, becoming part of her body.
She could no longer summon them...
"Tsk... So much for exploiting a bug..."
Jiang Yuechu sighed helplessly, then repeated the same method, summoning Demon King Qiankun and Lord White Ape.
Billowing black