Merit Earned

After leaving the rear hall, Chu Bai did not leave the Demon-Suppression Office.

He had no private residence in the city. Though his salary as a Patrol Banner Commander was more than enough to rent a courtyard, he found it troublesome and went straight to his own office Quiet Chamber instead.

As a Patrol Banner Commander independent of the Third Squad, he received decent treatment.

The Quiet Chamber occupied a corner of a side hall. It was small but peaceful, and had a simple Spirit-Gathering Formation.

He pushed open the door. Inside stood only a table, a chair, and a couch.

Chu Bai sat cross-legged on the couch but did not immediately go to sleep.

As his cultivation deepened, especially after cultivating the Keep One Scripture and awakening his Divine Sense, his need for sleep had diminished greatly.

An hour or two of seated Breath Regulation was often enough to leave him brimming with energy.

With the long night ahead, he might as well cultivate.

At a thought, the Origin Return Formula began to circulate.

As he practiced, Chu Bai keenly sensed that the spiritual qi inside the Demon-Suppression Office was entirely different from that outside.

This place lay beneath the core of the Great Zhou Law Net. The spiritual qi drifting through the air was filtered and purified by the Law Net, turning into a special kind of [Pure-Origin Spiritual Qi].

It was balanced and gentle, with a vast, upright quality. Though not as dense or fierce as the qi in certain blessed lands, it was exceptionally pure and easy to absorb.

For Chu Bai, whose Five-Element Cultivation Method prized balance and harmony, it could hardly have been more suitable.

Threads of pale-white Pure-Origin Spiritual Qi flowed through his pores, swiftly transformed into pure Five-Element Spiritual Power, and joined