Looking at the corpse sprawled before her, Jiang Yuechu suddenly frowned and pondered carefully.
Slaying one Cloud Dream Great Demon after another had brought in a lavish haul of Dao Cultivation.
But she had no ready Dao-Union Relic on hand... For now, condensing demon bodies would have to wait.
Besides, she had begun to sense a certain issue.
The more prodigious a demon was, the more unfathomable its bloodline reserves, and the greater the boost it could grant her Dao Chess.
In that case, there was no hurry to expend her efforts condensing the bodies of such worthless demons.
Jiang Yuechu considered briefly, then withdrew her gaze.
She turned and retraced her steps into the ruined hall.
The hall's vaulted roof had been torn away in the earlier battle, leaving the gray-white morning light to pour down unhindered.
She casually found a relatively level slab of bluestone, brushed away the dust, and sat cross-legged.
Her eyes half closed, she stilled her mind completely and slowly opened the panel.
[Host: Jiang Yuechu] [Dao Chess: Hell-Suppressing Sword Toad (Spirit-Grade), Azurewater Golden-Eye (Immortal-Grade), Hell-Suppressing Talisman Guard (Spirit-Grade)] [Current Dao Cultivation: 8,716,432 years] [Recorded Demons: ...Azurewater Golden-Crystal Beast (Shadow Tracing), Skywater Qilin (Shadow Tracing)]
Jiang Yuechu frowned at the words on the panel.
After going all in, three demons and a fox demon had yielded barely over twelve million years.
Subtracting the more than three million years spent recording the Skywater Qilin left her with just over eight million years of Dao Cultivation.
"Still not enough..."
She sighed softly, though she was not particularly disheartened.
Dao Cultivation was something to earn, not something to scrimp and save.
With danger looming, she had to spend every year where it counted most.
Her gaze swept downward from the top.
The ordinary demons listed above,