Breakthrough to Qi Solidification, Demonic Supernatural Abilities

The night was as black as ink, and the river breeze was faintly cool.

The cargo ship moored in a river bend. The boatmen gathered the ropes and lit a fire, its glow reflected on the river and shattered by the ripples.

Lu Li led Liu Yueling ashore and walked more than a mile downstream along the riverbank before stopping at a sheltered stretch of rocky shore.

Tang Jiu had wanted to follow, but Lu Li pinned him in place with a single sentence.

"Guard the ship. No matter what you hear tonight, you are not to come over."

"Yes, yes... I'll stay put!"

Tang Jiu nodded repeatedly, shrank his neck, and retreated back onto the ship.

Holding Little Gray, Liu Yueling picked a flat boulder to sit on and looked up at him. "Brother Li, are you cultivating again?"

"Mm. I'll be done before dawn."

"Then I'll keep watch for you, big brother."

Liu Yueling patted her chest, her face utterly serious.

Little Gray poked its head out of her arms, squeaked twice at Lu Li, then leaped onto a nearby reef. It pricked up its ears and stood watch for its master.

Lu Li smiled and reached out to rub her head.

"Alright, sorry for the trouble, little guard."

He said no more. Sitting cross-legged on the muddy shore, he closed his eyes and focused.

The river wind howled, waves slapped against the shore, and inside him, Jiao Yue's blood energy still surged.

A Qi Solidification Realm martial artist's blood energy was truly vast as the sea.

After refining it for three days, he had only consumed a little over half.

The remaining blood energy rushed through his meridians again and again, washing toward the final aperture.

The twelfth Hidden Meridian.

Lu Li calculated inwardly. Once all