Princess Red Lotus

The yellow paper package was opened.

Inside were two wooden boxes, one large and one small.

The larger one contained a four-foot black iron saber, specially purchased from the Taiguang Prefecture capital for this trip.

The moment he took it in hand, Su Xinghe noticed the difference.

It was darker in color than the steel saber he had used before and weighed an estimated fifty-odd pounds. When he quietly sent a thread of Internal Force into it, he felt a solid, weighty sensation.

Lin County banned sabers and swords, so weapon prices within the city were absurdly inflated. Besides, ordinary steel sabers could not withstand slashes backed by tens of thousands of pounds of force.

The one Zhou Yingjun had given him last time had already been ruined after cutting down more than twenty armored City Guard Army soldiers.

This saber, meanwhile, had been bought at the prefectural capital according to Su Xinghe's requirements, benchmarked against the physique of a Seventh-Rank Transformation Realm martial artist. Naturally, it had consumed most of the gains from wiping out the Qingshan Escort Agency that night.

He put away the long saber and opened the other small wooden box.

Seeing five brand-new thousand-tael Treasure Notes and ten bottles of pills inside, he casually tucked them into his robes.

The battle against the Qingshan Escort Agency had gone extremely smoothly, and the harvest had been plentiful.

Seeing that it was still early.

Su Xinghe took out two Bone-Forging Pills and began restoring his Qi-Blood strength.

Over these seven days, he had accumulated two hundred and sixty threads of Internal Force in his dantian. Of those, however, two hundred had already been used to open apertures over the past few days.

Including his Qi Sea, he now had twenty-one opened apertures within his body.

The reason