The matter with Cousin Yueyue was just a minor episode.
For the time being, Lin Sheng couldn't enter the dream realm because he had been killed, so he simply rested and recuperated each day while diligently practicing his swordsmanship and reviewing his studies.
On the surface, he looked like an ordinary high school senior preparing for his exams. In reality, however, his strength, stamina, and physique were all slowly improving through sword practice.
Over the next few days, Lin Sheng went out after school each day to buy silver powder from various gold and silver shops.
Without Taobao, silver powder was surprisingly hard to buy. He asked at many silver jewelry shops before finally finding one that sold it.
The price, however, was higher than he had expected.
According to the Memory Fragment recorded in the female swordswoman Enni's memories, each ritual required at least nine standard units.
One standard unit meant one full spoonful, measured with a kind of wooden spoon unique to Black Feather City.
Lin Sheng estimated that nine standard units would amount to at least a kilogram.
After spending several thousand yuan on a kilogram of pure silver powder, Lin Sheng began searching around Huaisha City's farmers' markets and pet markets.
He hoped to find a live deer so he could collect its blood. Unfortunately, after searching for two days, he came up empty-handed.
Meanwhile, the Iron Fist Club in Blackwater District had taken on several new students over the past few days.
These weren't poor students like the previous ones. They were proper students who had come in person to pay their fees.
Xiayin told him over the phone that the three students Russell had taught earlier had gone home and gotten into a fight after learning a few moves they could pick up quickly.