635. Changyang (8200 added, seeking monthly votes)

"This number should, by my estimate, be kept within five items at most... You've already absorbed two eerie objects. Next, you should strive to bring the Eerie Pellet to completion within three more!"

That required eerie objects of extremely high quality.

If they were things like the Little Stockade Village finger bone and black cloth, he would need ten or twenty of them just to barely reach completion. That would leave the Eerie Pellet impure and only make things harder in the future.

"Three... high-grade eerie objects like the jade heart?"

Xu Changqing murmured.

He was absolutely unwilling to turn himself into a disgusting monster, much less lose his sanity. "That'll be difficult..."

"No... The ideal outcome would be succeeding in one stroke next time and breaking through the bottleneck!"

Sulu spoke calmly.

"Items left behind by ghosts won't work. It has to be a 'monster,' and an exceptionally powerful anomaly at that!" Xu Changqing sucked in a breath.

"If you want to become a powerful immortal, travel farther than other immortals, and eventually take your revenge, then you must hold yourself to harsh and exacting standards..."

Sulu chuckled. "Besides... there happens to be a target that suits you perfectly!"

"What target?"

"Xiangliu's Son!"

Three days later.

Inside the Spring Breeze Pavilion in the Demon Suppression Bureau's garden.

"Little brother..."

Pan Shu, who had lost an arm, looked at Xu Changqing with helplessness written all over his face. "Although you made the greatest contribution to this operation, that eerie object... Sigh... Forget it. Let's drink, let's drink."

After losing an arm, he had instead become much more even-tempered. Xu Changqing had also heard that he was preparing to retire.

Thanks to the various spells in this world, injuries healed quickly. Pan Shu's decision clearly was not because his body