Half a month later.
Song Wen finished refining pills.
He had exhausted all the medicinal herbs Xiao Ying had left behind for refining King Gu Pills and Earth Gu Pills.
After feeding the Shadow King Gu a King Gu Pill and each of the three Shadow Gu an Earth Gu Pill, Song Wen murmured to himself.
"It seems I'll have to buy more herbs for these two pills the next time I go out."
Nourished by the pills and the Gu Worm corpses, all four Gu Worms had grown noticeably stronger.
The three Shadow Gu, in particular, were already showing signs of advancing to the middle third tier.
Song Wen put away the pills and pill furnace, then turned his hand over and took out Shi Man's communication jade slip. She still had not replied.
"Could someone have already 'taken her life to extend their own' just after she joined the Moon-Covering Hall?"
Song Wen frowned slightly. He did not think the Moon-Covering Hall would do something so foolish.
If a Spirit Transformation cultivator practicing the Longevity Art vanished immediately after joining the Moon-Covering Hall, it would inevitably arouse the suspicions of every high-level cultivator in the Qicang Region.
Then no one like Shi Man would go to such painstaking lengths to join the Moon-Covering Hall again.
[Senior Shi Man, have you successfully joined the Moon-Covering Hall?]
After sending Shi Man another message, Song Wen put the communication jade slip away.
Three months later.
Song Wen still had not received a reply from Shi Man.
But he did not send her another message.
He was no longer as certain as before that Shi Man was still alive.
Song Wen left his cave abode and headed to the medicinal herb shops in the southern part of the city.
He had used