After returning home, Xu Zhi first activated [Eye of Secrets] and carefully inspected the house. Only after confirming that there was nothing wrong—and that nothing that should not have been there had appeared in her room—did she turn to Qi Yanxin and ask, "Have you gone into my room during this time?"
Qi Yanxin looked somewhat puzzled, but she still shook her head before answering Xu Zhi's question. "No."
Since Xu Zhi had told her not to enter, she truly had not taken another step inside.
"Got it." Xu Zhi nodded, now even more certain that whoever had placed the blood food on her bedside table knew her whereabouts—at the very least, they knew when she was home and when she was away.
"Forget it. I won't worry about it for now."
Her top priority now was to digest the resources she had acquired.
The ring she had looted from the Light Institute was already piled full of cores. It was a fortune that would make even the upper echelons jealous if brought out into the open, and Xu Zhi planned to turn all of it into her own strength before school started—in other words, within two months.
Although she had no advancement bottleneck and could raise her level by directly absorbing extraordinary energy, she still had one limitation: the efficiency of absorption and conversion.
Though she was already far better than ordinary extraordinary individuals in this regard, she still could not become Named in one bite. She could only consume a few cores each day, digesting them gradually as she built up her level.
Even so, advancing from Immortality to Named within two months was already a pace beyond the world's understanding. Xu Zhi herself knew that she could not expose this. Once it was revealed, even the Light