(Wishing all fellow Daoists a happy Singles' Day, and hoping you find someone soon...)
By the time the dust settled and countless military vehicles converged on the scene, Li Qinghe had vanished. The operators of more than a dozen suits of Exoskeleton Armor were all dead, their bodies reduced to desiccated husks.
"Investigate! Find out what that burst of wind and sand and that red light were! Who rescued Li Qinghe?" the commander roared.
The footage was sent back, and a report returned in less than half an hour.
The commander took one look and grew even more furious. "Suspected Blood Demon... Fine, fine! Li Qinghe, you dared collude with the Long-Haired Remnants? What exactly is your Northern Sect plotting? Are you planning to rebel too?"
Like a cold front, news that the Long-Haired Remnants had rescued Li Qinghe swept across Great Chu. Beneath the country's calm surface, another storm began to gather.
None of it had anything to do with Tang Changsheng. Not yet, at least.
Tang Changsheng swallowed one Spirit-Nourishing Pill after another as though they were candy, letting their medicinal power circulate and refine without pause.
It made him admire his own foresight more and more. I really did think ahead!
If I used Wishfire made from Sky Silver to cultivate without restraint, there would still be traces of impurities, pure as the Sky Silver is. Even with the power of Fu Shi and Non-Toxin at my command, I might not be able to purge every last impurity and toxin.
*But by using Sky Silver Wishfire for Pill Refining, I put another layer between myself and those impurities. Their effects are now negligible. Even after taking so many pills in succession, very little pill toxin has built up in my body. Fu Shi and Non-Toxin can easily