Gong Hao Arrives, Comprehending the Domain

The sun sank in the west.

The evening breeze carried the rich smell of woodsmoke and cooked rice through the mountains.

"Brother, dinner's ready..."

His younger brother Su Haitao's voice came from outside.

At dinner, Su Xinghe told his family he was going to Qingzhou Prefecture.

Su Cheng was reluctant to see him go, but finally nodded.

"Go without worrying. You don't need to worry about home."

His eldest son had devoted himself to martial arts and had achieved something now. If he wanted to venture into a big city, how could Su Cheng, as his father, hold him back?

Beside him, Chen Guilan stared at Su Xinghe without blinking, her eyes red.

When a son traveled a thousand miles, his mother worried; a thousand words could not say it all.

Once he left, who knew when they would meet again?

He still had to wait for news from the Demon Suppression Bureau.

After dinner, he hurried back to the city.

The small courtyard in the North City woods was still vacant. He planned to wait there for news over the next few days.

That night.

Su Xinghe refined all ten Sixth-Rank Force-Forging Pills, adding a hundred golden strands of Astral Qi to his body.

He had also reached twenty percent of Sixth-Rank Force Condensation.

But he still could not form the True Force Iron Armor that came with his cultivation art.

Since returning, Little White Bat no longer needed Su Xinghe to feed him blood. Every day, he held a blood-colored bead and licked the demonic energy within it.

Su Xinghe suspected the bead was the Demon Core of the Rift-Sky Mother Empress from last time. Only by absorbing its demonic power could Little White Bat truly grow up.

He played with the little fellow for a while.