Recaps

Su Xinghe used the Heavenly Will Sword Network to annihilate the Inspection Bureau attackers, then reunited with Xia Xiaoqi and learned that his Life Origin was severely depleted. Yue Shan offered him a place as an Inner Sword disciple, but Su Xinghe declined and Yue Shan stayed to await Xu Lie.

• Su Xinghe unleashed his Core Qi Domain and killed more than twenty masked martial artists.
• Su Xinghe reunited with Xia Xiaoqi and realized she had disguised herself as a boy while living as a beggar.
• Yue Shan arrived and asked Su Xinghe what he thought of the Heavenly Will Sword Network, then urged the Demon Suppression Bureau to release him to the Heavenly One Sword Sect.
• Yue Shan examined Su Xinghe and discovered that his Life Origin was severely depleted, limiting his prospects for reaching the pinnacle.
• Yue Shan offered Su Xinghe an Inner Sword disciple position, but Su Xinghe refused, and Gong Hao said Xu Lie would soon return from the Capital with a secret art for him.
• Yue Shan decided to wait for Xu Lie at the Demon Suppression Bureau while his companions prepared for disciple recruitment.

Xia Xiaoqi told Su Xinghe about the ranks beyond Grandmaster and the wider powers surrounding the Zhou Martial Sage Dynasty, while Liuyun explained why the Heavenly One Sword Sect wanted to recruit him. After the visitors left, Su Xinghe considered the political consequences of his recent killings and the protection he had gained from the sect.

• Xia Xiaoqi reunited with Su Xinghe, fed Little White Bat a Blood Essence Pill, and explained that Martial Saints were only apprentice ninth rank, with Stellar-Tier cultivation above them.
• Xia Xiaoqi described higher Stellar-Tier ranks and said the Zhou Martial Sage Dynasty had not produced one of the more advanced experts in nearly seven hundred years.
• The tower shook when Su Xinghe asked about his origin, and Liuyun arrived to meet him.
• Liuyun explained that the Heavenly One Sword Sect wanted Su Xinghe because he had comprehended Water Conception, and offered resources to compensate the Demon Suppression Bureau.
• Xia Xiaoqi gave Su Xinghe a booklet and left with Liuyun, while Su Xinghe concluded that the Heavenly One Sword Sect's protection would shield him from consequences for killing Han Zhi, Lu Xuanji, and two Inspection Bureau Grandmasters.

Su Xinghe studied Xia Xiaoqi’s notes on mental cultivation and began training after reaching the fifth-rank Grandmaster realm. He found that cultivation progressed slowly even with his sixteenfold Psychic Power amplification, while Qi-Gathering Pills greatly improved the pace.

• Su Xinghe realized Little White Bat had brought home the Guardian Barrier’s energy core and decided not to panic about possessing it.
• Su Xinghe read Xia Xiaoqi’s notes, learning how his mental power amplification worked and how Water Conception could lead toward a Water Domain.
• Su Xinghe checked his Fate Panel and accepted that his damaged origin did not prevent him from cultivating as a Grandmaster.
• Su Xinghe practiced the Demon-Slaying Blade and found that his martial realm progress barely increased, even when he activated all sixteen figures in his Consciousness Space.
• Su Xinghe refined a Qi-Gathering Pill through his meridians and discovered that pills made cultivation roughly ten to twenty times more efficient, then took out the second pill.

Su Xinghe advanced Nine Thunder Blade Slashes and returned to Prefecture Front Street, where his rapid rise stunned Lu Sandao and Zhou Hao. He planned to move his family from Niu Family Village, while Demon Suppression Bureau commanders worried that he might leave for the Heavenly One Sword Sect.

• Su Xinghe discovered that reaching fifth-rank core embrace required two thousand Qi-Gathering Pills, then practiced Nine Thunder Blade Slashes through the night until it reached Hall-Entering.
• Su Xinghe measured the ninth slash at over a hundred and ten thousand jin and credited his qi-blood foundation to his earlier training.
• Su Xinghe returned to Prefecture Front Street with Xia Xiaoqi, surprising Lu Sandao and Zhou Hao with their martial progress.
• Su Xinghe asked Lu Sandao to send a letter severing the White Ape Martial Academy's ties with Lin County and planned to bring his family to Qingzhou Prefecture City.
• Gong Hao and Shangguan Jing discussed persuading Su Xinghe to stay in the Demon Suppression Bureau, but decided to wait for Director Xu Lie to return.

Su Xinghe celebrated his breakthrough to Grandmaster with Gong Hao, Shangguan Jing, and Wu Cangqing, then advanced his Water Conception while secluded. Meanwhile, Xu Lie returned from Mending Heaven Pavilion with the news that Su Xinghe’s requests for special training and the Starfire secret technique had been denied.

• Shangguan Jing proposed targeting Lu Xuanji, but Gong Hao rejected the plan and suggested waiting for Director Xu Lie.
• Su Xinghe arrived at the Demon Suppression Bureau, where Gong Hao and Shangguan Jing congratulated him and invited him to celebrate.
• Su Xinghe celebrated with Wu Cangqing and learned that Wu Ganming had stayed away to avoid suspicion over Su Xinghe’s political conflict.
• Su Xinghe entered seclusion and raised his Water Conception to Transcendent Mastery, greatly increasing its power.
• Xu Lie learned that the Demon Suppression Bureau and Military Department had denied his requests for Su Xinghe, leaving the young martial artist without special training or access to the Starfire secret technique.

Su Xinghe reunited with Zhan Yun and Gong Yueni, learned of Zhao Ya’s life as an Outer Disciple, and worried about Zhou Hao’s chances in the recruitment assembly. As he cultivated at home, the director arrived beneath an overwhelming aura of blood balefulness, leaving Su Xinghe uneasy.

• Zhan Yun and Gong Yueni visited Xia Xiaoqi and discovered that her cultivation and mental will had advanced remarkably.
• Su Xinghe met Zhan Yun and Gong Yueni, received Zhao Ya’s letters, and invited them and Xia Xiaoqi to dinner, where they assessed Zhou Hao’s recruitment prospects as promising but uncertain.
• Su Xinghe read Zhao Ya’s letter about her Outer Disciple life, then wrote her a reply and enclosed a thousand-tael Treasure Note for Zhan Yun to take back.
• The first-tier powers began recruiting promising young martial warriors, while Su Xinghe declined Gong Hao’s offer to help select apprentices because he was focused on cultivation.
• On November twenty-fifth, the director appeared in Su Xinghe’s room amid a powerful blood-baleful force field, and Su Xinghe sensed danger.

After failing to secure the Starfire secret art, Su Xinghe received a major merit and fifty thousand points from Xu Lie, but found that the Demon Suppression Bureau’s pill quotas could not meet his cultivation needs. He headed to the Martial Dao Bureau to seek pills, leaving his next move unresolved.

• Xu Lie told Su Xinghe that he could not obtain approval for the Starfire secret art, then transferred a major merit and fifty thousand points to him before returning to Southguard Pass.
• Su Xinghe learned from Kong Yuan that he had no quota for Qi-Gathering Pills until his commander appointment was finalized, and Gong Hao explained the branch’s strict monthly allocations.
• Gong Hao offered Su Xinghe two or three pills from his own quota each month, but Su Xinghe refused to take resources that could help his senior advance.
• Su Xinghe spotted the Lin County Lu Family Massacre Case on the Martial Dao Bureau noticeboard, then revealed his Core Embrace true qi and announced that he wanted to buy pills.

As the disciple recruitment convention began, Su Xinghe reached Perfect Mastery in the Nine Revolutions of the Thunder Blade but found that his strength was injuring his body. Zhou Hao joined the crowd competing for a place at Extreme Dao Mountain Academy, while Su Xinghe studied First Insight into Light and Darkness and considered how to grasp its true principles.

• Su Xinghe learned that his enormous strength and perfected blade technique were damaging his body, and Senior Gong Hao gave him the Sixth-Rank Midnight-Noon Disc to restore his qi and blood.
• On the first day of the twelfth month, Su Xinghe, Lu Sandao, and Zhou Hao joined the crowds traveling to the disciple recruitment convention at Ten-Li Slope.
• Zhou Hao said farewell to Su Xinghe and Lu Sandao, then entered the long queue to compete for one of Extreme Dao Mountain Academy’s fifty local places.
• Su Xinghe surveyed the candidates and recognized how difficult Zhou Hao’s competition would be, despite Zhou Hao’s strong cultivation and talent.
• Su Xinghe sat atop a watchtower and studied First Insight into Light and Darkness, seeking to understand light’s essence and eventually comprehend the Light-Ray Artistic Conception.

Su Xinghe watched the recruitment assembly, where powerful sects tested candidates and rival organizations fought over those they rejected. He rescued three children caught in the fighting, but Ji Xuanye redirected an attack toward a stunned Ninth Rank youth.

• Su Xinghe saw Public Security Office constables let wealthy families and their connections jump the queue, while Lu Sandao complained about their wasted silver.
• The Heavenly One Sword Sect and other super first-rate powers arrived, and their Core Embrace Grandmasters screened candidates while lesser powers sought out those who were rejected.
• Su Xinghe noticed Zhou Hao still inching forward in the queue as the recruitment day wore on and other candidates joined the line.
• Demon Suppression Bureau guards and Qingzhou Academy students fought over an eliminated candidate while Public Security Office patrol martial artists watched.
• Su Xinghe used his Core Qi Domain to shield three children and pull them out of danger.
• Ji Xuanye feinted past Wu Cangqing and sent an attack toward a youth who had just entered Ninth Rank.

Su Xinghe intervened when Ji Xuanye of Qingzhou Academy nearly killed a young Martial Warrior, then met He Wu of Extreme Dao Mountain Academy. After learning Zhou Hao followed Golden Baleful Peak’s Divine Ape Lineage, He Wu accepted him into the outer court and invited Su Xinghe to register as well.

• Su Xinghe caught the injured youth and used Water Conception to suppress the astral force in his body as the youth reunited with A-Xue and Xiao Lan.
• Su Xinghe struck Ji Xuanye down with his golden domain, then used Water Conception to repel the Qingzhou Academy Grandmaster who tried to stop Wu Cangqing from attacking him.
• He Wu arrived, identified Su Xinghe’s connection to Extreme Dao Mountain Academy, and offered to recommend him to Golden Baleful Peak’s inner court.
• Su Xinghe introduced Zhou Hao to He Wu and told him about the Veteran’s Trade House and its destruction by the Lu Family.
• He Wu tested Zhou Hao, confirmed he was a seventeen-year-old Dark Force Martial Warrior of the Divine Ape Lineage, accepted him into Golden Baleful Peak’s outer court, and invited Su Xinghe to register.

Su Xinghe brought Lin Fan and the other recruits to the Demon Suppression Bureau, where Shangguan Jing chose four girls as her disciples and Wu Cangqing took Lin Fan under his guidance. Reflecting on He Wu’s power, Su Xinghe recognized the significance of Technique True Meaning but remained uncertain whether to leave the Demon Suppression Bureau for a super first-rate power.

• He Wu departed with Zhou Hao and Lu Sandao after inviting Su Xinghe to join them for a drink later.
• Lin Fan thanked Su Xinghe for saving his siblings and chose to join the Demon Suppression Bureau rather than pursue the distant Extreme Dao Mountain Academy.
• Su Xinghe used Spatial Severing to bring Lin Fan, his siblings, and the other recruits to the Demon Suppression Bureau.
• Shangguan Jing selected Lin Fan’s four younger sisters, while Wu Cangqing promised to train Lin Fan.
• Su Xinghe sensed vitality in He Wu’s True Essence and realized it came from Technique True Meaning.
• Su Xinghe considered the strength of the super first-rate powers but decided to wait before choosing his path.

Su Xinghe visited the military camp and met Chang Chengfeng, an elder from Extreme Dao Mountain Academy, who urged him to join the academy. Chang Chengfeng argued that the Zhou Martial Sage Dynasty’s powers were subordinate to the great sects, leaving Su Xinghe to consider the wider world beyond his current understanding.

• Lu Sandao told Su Xinghe that Zhou Hao’s chosen spot had been confirmed, though he still needed to pass an assessment at Extreme Dao Mountain Academy.
• Lu Sandao said he planned to return home, while Su Xinghe admitted he had not decided whether to join the academy.
• Su Xinghe arrived at the military camp, where He Wu welcomed him and explained that Chang Chengfeng oversaw the Black Tortoise Lineage’s affairs on Golden Baleful Peak.
• Su Xinghe met Chang Chengfeng and endured the elder’s formidable Killing Intent.
• Chang Chengfeng invited Su Xinghe to sit and urged him not to hesitate about joining Extreme Dao Mountain Academy, describing the sects’ power and the vastness of the Desolate Region.

After Elder Chang Chengfeng offered him a place in the Golden Baleful Peak, Su Xinghe decided to leave Qingzhou and seek faster growth on the Outer Battlefield. He applied to go, then learned from Cao De that Chu Shibai had secretly served the Peaceful Heaven Sect’s Blood Refining Branch rather than Princess Red Lotus.

• Chang Chengfeng offered Su Xinghe an elite disciple slot, but Heavenly One Sword Sect figures arrived and a confrontation erupted above the military camp.
• Su Xinghe recognized Qingzhou as a place where the powerful restricted the growth of lower-ranked martial artists and decided to go out.
• Su Xinghe asked Gong Hao to submit his application for the Outer Battlefield, and Gong Hao agreed he could leave after his commander appointment came through.
• Cao De visited Su Xinghe on Princess Red Lotus’s orders and said Chu Shibai had not been sent by the princess to attack him.
• Cao De explained that Chu Shibai was Empress Xiao’s hidden pawn from the Peaceful Heaven Sect’s Blood Refining Branch.

Su Xinghe declined the Heavenly One Sword Sect’s offer and chose to go to the Outer Battlefield, then returned to Niu Family Village with Lu Sandao. He reunited with his friends and family and found that his younger brother Haitao had advanced to the Ninth Rank.

• Cao De gave Su Xinghe thirty thousand Treasure Notes as a gift from the Cao Family after his breakthrough.
• Su Xinghe practiced his self-created water-element secret arts until Yue Shan offered to teach him the Heavenly One Sword Sect’s Mental Secret Arts.
• Su Xinghe told Yue Shan he had applied to go to the Outer Battlefield, and Yue Shan accepted his decision.
• Su Xinghe learned from Xia Xiaoqi that the Desolate Alliance forbade its forces from stopping martial artists from entering the Outer Battlefield.
• Su Xinghe hosted his friends, prepared to return home, and traveled with Lu Sandao to Niu Family Village.
• Su Xinghe reunited with the villagers and his younger brother Haitao, who had reached the Ninth Rank.

Su Xinghe returned to Lin County and reunited with his family while learning that the Peaceful Heaven Sect had taken control of the county. After visiting the people and places tied to his past, he returned to Qingzhou Prefecture City and began closed-door cultivation while awaiting his promotion and assignment to the Outer Battlefield.

• Su Xinghe returned to his family courtyard, reunited with his parents and relatives, and shared a meal with them.
• Zhou Yingjun told Su Xinghe that the Peaceful Heaven Sect had occupied Lin County, forcing the Black Market and other survivors to take refuge in Niu Family Village.
• Su Xinghe visited the pill refiners and gave Zhao Jing a letter and a Treasure Note from her sister Xiaoya.
• Su Xinghe went to Lin County, observed the Peaceful Heaven Sect's influence, and shared a banquet with Zhang Baichuan.
• After spending New Year with his family, Su Xinghe returned to Qingzhou Prefecture City, reported to Gong Hao, and began closed-door cultivation.

After months without a promotion or Qi-Gathering Pill allocation, Su Xinghe continued cultivating in the Guardian Tower and secretly grew much stronger. As he prepared to advance his Water Conception, a powerful phantom appeared and confronted him.

• Su Xinghe went months without receiving his Commander appointment or monthly Qi-Gathering Pills, so he kept cultivating in seclusion.
• Su Xinghe perfected his Ascending Dragon Stance and strengthened his body, while using Water Conception to conceal his growing power.
• Su Xinghe suspected the Crown Prince's side was blocking his promotion to prevent him from going to the Outer Battlefield.
• Su Xinghe decided to focus on advancing his Water Conception toward the Water Domain.
• A powerful phantom descended on the Guardian Tower, overwhelmed Su Xinghe with its force field, and entered his room.

Xu Ling of the Mending Heaven Pavilion recruited Su Xinghe for a trip to the Outer Battlefield, saying the Pavilion needed him because of what he had done in Lin County. After saying goodbye to his companions, Su Xinghe flew away with Xu Ling and learned that they were traveling inside an earth-elemental domain.

• Xu Ling showed Su Xinghe a dossier detailing his identity, martial arts, and connections, then introduced himself as his guide to the Outer Battlefield.
• Xu Ling said he had previously investigated a missing guerrilla general and had witnessed Su Xinghe fighting, but had not arrested him because the Mending Heaven Pavilion needed him.
• Su Xinghe gathered Little White Bat and his belongings, then returned to the training grounds to bid farewell to Shangguan Jing, Gong Hao, and the others.
• Gong Hao gave Su Xinghe a bundle and told him to find the Director when he arrived, while Su Xinghe asked Gong Hao to look after Lin County.
• Xu Ling carried Su Xinghe away from Qingzhou Prefecture City, and Su Xinghe recognized they were flying within Xu Ling's earth-elemental domain.

Su Xinghe traveled with Xu Ling across the desolate land surrounding a massive breach in the sky, where fragments fell from the abyss and Guardian Towers protected the region. Xu Ling brought him through the breach to Southguard Pass, a vast military outpost beneath the darkened sky.

• Su Xinghe learned that Xu Ling was a Martial Apex Psychic Master who had not broken through to Stellar-Tier because the martial and psychic paths demanded different methods.
• As they traveled, Su Xinghe saw increasing numbers of Outer Demons and learned that Xu Ling's domain could destroy them.
• Xu Ling took Su Xinghe into a barren desert, where Su Xinghe saw an enormous abyssal breach in the sky and learned it was why Mending Heaven Pavilion existed.
• Su Xinghe watched a mountain-sized object fall from the breach and break apart before Xu Ling carried him into the abyss.
• Xu Ling brought Su Xinghe through the darkness to Southguard Pass, where Su Xinghe saw Guardian Towers, barriers, ruined buildings, and crowds of armed people at a vast military camp.

Su Xinghe learned that Great Zhou was a dying Small World and that the Mending Heaven Pavilion sought to delay its collapse and save its people. After hearing about the martial realms beyond the stars, he asked whether anyone had reached the Immortal-Tier and learned the Pavilion’s strongest expert was Stellar-Core Tier Ninth Rank.

• Su Xinghe saw that the Abyss Black Hole was a rupture in the enormous sphere of Great Zhou’s world, which was leaking rocks and clouds into the sky.
• Xu Ling explained that Great Zhou had lost more than forty thousand li of territory and would eventually become an Ashen Zone if no one repaired it.
• Xu Ling told Su Xinghe that Great Zhou had formed from an Immortal-Tier powerhouse’s shattered fate core and that only nine habitable Small Worlds remained in the explored Desolate Region.
• Xu Ling urged Su Xinghe to join the effort to protect Great Zhou, explaining that the world could lose all cultivable land and seas within about a thousand years.
• Su Xinghe asked about higher martial realms and learned that warriors above Stellar-Tier could eventually become Immortal Gods.
• Xu Ling revealed that the Mending Heaven Pavilion’s strongest expert was at Stellar-Core Tier Ninth Rank and that its mission was to delay Great Zhou’s destruction and transfer its people to a new world.

Xu Ling invited Su Xinghe to join the Mending Heaven Pavilion, gave him secret arts, and explained the limits imposed by his damaged source and the Zhou Dynasty’s military service requirement. Su Xinghe accepted the Pavilion’s token and was taken to register at Southguard Pass before his three years of service.

• Xu Ling explained that Stellar-Tier cultivation required rare source energy and invited Su Xinghe to join the Mending Heaven Pavilion.
• Xu Ling gave Su Xinghe the earth-element Third-Rank true art Thousand Blades to pass to Xu Lie, and warned that Su Xinghe’s damaged source might prevent him from reaching Stellar-Tier.
• Xu Ling told Su Xinghe that he would have to serve three years in the Military Department before freely entering and leaving the Great Zhou Small World.
• Su Xinghe accepted Xu Ling’s All Beings Forest 72 Arts and the Mending Heaven token, which identified him as an Apprentice Seventh Rank Psychic Master.
• Xu Ling showed Su Xinghe the Pavilion’s sparse map of the Southern Regions and carried him to Southguard Pass to register.

Su Xinghe entered Southguard Pass with Xu Ling and learned about the military frontier and its dangers. After meeting the pass commander, Huo Min, he continued with Xu Ling toward registration.

• Xu Ling showed the patrol his Military Department authorization, and Su Xinghe presented his Lin County Martial Dao Bureau token to gain entry through the Guardian Barrier.
• The patrol welcomed Su Xinghe to Southguard Pass, where he sensed many powerful Martial Warriors inside the encampment.
• Huo Min, the Stellar-Tier Third Rank commander of Southguard Pass, flew out to greet Xu Ling and noticed Su Xinghe was a young Grandmaster.
• Xu Ling explained that the four passes guarded the Great Zhou Small World and that nearby resources were scarce, while Forbidden Zones remained dangerous and largely unexplored.
• Xu Ling led Su Xinghe through the steel-built encampment toward a crowded square where returning and departing teams gathered.

Su Xinghe arrived at Mending Heaven Pavilion's Southguard Pass branch and was assigned Earth-rank status and a room. Steward Xu left to investigate a suspected secret passage after Bonewing Tribe Greater Demons appeared at Site 2903, leaving Liu Ming to receive Su Xinghe.

• Xu Ling asked about Elder Liu and learned that he had gone to Site 2903 to investigate Bonewing Tribe Greater Demons and a possible passage to a small world.
• Xu Ling introduced Su Xinghe as a new member, ordered Liu Ming to arrange Earth-rank accommodations, and flew south to Site 2903.
• Liu Ming welcomed Su Xinghe and explained that they were both Earth-rank members.
• Liu Ming led Su Xinghe through the spacecraft branch and showed him how to unlock Rest Room 3887 with his Pavilion token.
• Su Xinghe checked the room with his spiritual perception, found nothing amiss, and went inside.

Su Xinghe toured the warship at Southguard Pass as Liu Ming explained the Desolate Region’s ancient war, vast unexplored scale, and the forces stationed there. He learned that the region’s explored diameter reached roughly 0.6 light-years and that Mending Heaven Pavilion’s nearby base held around twenty thousand members, most at Southern Sky Base.

• Su Xinghe noticed the warship’s Star Calendar clock and learned that its windows had been sealed against beast tides.
• Liu Ming told Su Xinghe that a war seven thousand years earlier involved at least a hundred million Stellar-Tier combatants and a hundred billion ordinary troops, before gods destroyed them.
• Liu Ming explained that five Psychic Power avatars had flown for a thousand years without finding the Desolate Region’s boundary, covering about 5.7 trillion li each.
• Su Xinghe calculated that the explored diameter of the Desolate Region was roughly 0.6 light-years and wondered how it could be a prison.
• Liu Ming showed Su Xinghe the warship’s lower-level facilities and told him that Mending Heaven Pavilion had around twenty thousand members at Southguard Pass, with most stationed at Southern Sky Base.

Su Xinghe explored the Free Trade Zone with Liu Ming, who grew attached to Little White and spent contribution points buying it food. Back in his room at Southguard Pass, Su Xinghe considered his upcoming call-up and cultivation needs before opening Gong Hao’s parting gift.

• Su Xinghe and Liu Ming browsed the Free Trade Zone, where Liu Ming recognized Little White as a Rift-Sky Bat and pleaded with Su Xinghe to let her have it.
• Su Xinghe agreed to let Liu Ming hold Little White if it was willing, and she spent more than five hundred contribution points buying it Demon Beast food.
• Su Xinghe treated Liu Ming to an exotic beast barbecue meal, then returned with her to the corridor outside their rooms.
• Little White carried a large backpack into Su Xinghe’s room, and Liu Ming entered the room across the corridor, numbered 3888.
• Su Xinghe reflected on the Military Department’s call-up and his need for cultivation resources, then opened Gong Hao’s bundle and found two bottles containing twenty Fifth Rank Qi-Gathering Pills and a manual.

Su Xinghe studied the Baleful-Breaking Gold-Severing Formula and learned how Martial Warriors refined Blood Baleful Qi from Demon Beasts to advance toward the Grandmaster Realm. He practiced the art and cultivated in the Desolate Region, raising his Fifth-Rank progress before running out of Qi-Gathering Pills.

• Su Xinghe read the Baleful-Breaking Gold-Severing Formula and learned that Psychic Masters used it to refine impure Blood Baleful Qi from Demon Beasts.
• Su Xinghe used the formula on Demon Beast meat and extracted Metal-Type Blood Baleful Qi, but could not condense half a Blood Baleful Pill before exhausting the meat.
• Su Xinghe swallowed Qi-Gathering Pills and cultivated amid the Desolate Region's chaotic energy, relying on Unyielding to heal the strain on his meridians.
• Su Xinghe raised his Fifth-Rank cultivation progress by one percent after using twenty Qi-Gathering Pills, and his Demon-Slaying Blade reached Peak Perfection.
• Su Xinghe ran out of Qi-Gathering Pills.