Su Shi'er let out a long breath. The injuries he had been forcibly suppressing surged back with it.
Blood churned in his chest. His body swayed, and a fresh streak of crimson appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"It seems my injuries are worse than I expected."
"Fortunately, everything is ready. Now... it's time to enter seclusion in earnest!"
He wiped the blood from his mouth, his expression still calm.
In the battle at Tianjue Peak, he had used Return to Nothingness again and again, wielded the Nine Luminaries Array Disk to direct the breaking of the formation, and held on until the very end.
It was already a stroke of luck that he had escaped the Cultivation World alive.
With that thought, Su Shi'er stopped forcing himself onward. He flickered into the innermost meditation chamber.
He sat cross-legged on the stone platform and waved a hand. Several Storage Rings and Storage Pouches, along with one treasure after another, appeared before him.
Before entering seclusion to heal, he needed to take stock of the resources and treasures he had on hand.
Within the chamber, the formation's light flowed slowly.
An occasional spatial ripple swept past outside. The ancient markings left in the stone cavern glimmered, then fell still again.
Su Shi'er sat cross-legged on the stone platform, the Storage Rings and Storage Pouches hovering motionless before him.
A long while passed.
Only after he had calmed the churning blood within him did he slowly open his eyes.
With a wave of his hand, he drew an ancient-looking Storage Pouch into his palm.
The restriction on the storage treasure had long since been broken.
He sent his Divine Sense inside. The piled-up Spirit Crystals, Medicinal Pills, talismans, and numerous artifact-refining materials soon entered his awareness.
"Something left behind by the