Good Deeds Increase [Heavenly Fortune], Evil Deeds Accumulate [Karmic Burden]

Chu Bai sat cross-legged on a bluestone slab before the stone building, set the Origin Return Formula in motion with practiced ease, and activated the Academy Monitor Jade Slip in his hand.

He had long since grown used to dividing his attention this way: carrying out his unshakable daily cultivation while fulfilling a well-paid assignment.

Thread after thread of spiritual qi was drawn in with his breathing, ready to flow into his meridians.

Something's wrong.

An exceedingly faint yet unmistakable sensation came from the Pure-Origin Spiritual Qi he had drawn in.

An ordinary cultivator might not have noticed it at all, dismissing it as a normal fluctuation in spiritual qi.

But Chu Bai was different. Back when he had cultivated amid the Killing Intent mixed into the air around the Three-Bath River, Daoist Zhang had personally taught him the Qi-Filtering Method.

Though the method was fairly basic, he had practiced it until it became instinct. With every breath, he unconsciously filtered the spiritual qi he drew in.

And just now, his Qi-Filtering Method had intensified on its own!

That meant the Pure-Origin Spiritual Qi he had inhaled contained some impurity that needed filtering.

This was no small matter.

One of the Law Net's core functions was to regulate the spiritual qi of heaven and earth, filtering out Killing Intent and impurities to turn it into balanced, harmonious Pure-Origin Spiritual Qi.

Yet here, in the heart of the region covered by the Law Net, spiritual qi had appeared with impurities that required his Qi-Filtering Method to purify. It would clearly affect cultivation.

He immediately looked down at the Academy Monitor Jade Slip in his hand.

Chu Bai rose at once and swiftly left that place of trouble without the slightest hesitation.

How to solve it was not his concern.

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