After a thoughtful glance toward Sacred Pill City's inner district, Zhou Changqing put the matter aside and returned straight to the Pill Lightning Pavilion.
Only someone with a Spirit Realm soul could possess soul perception that had almost escaped his notice.
And they could not have only just entered the Spirit Realm. They had to be at least in its middle stage.
There were very few people in Sacred Pill City whose souls had reached such a realm.
It was most likely one of the big shots in the Pill Tower.
It might even have been one of the Pill Tower's Three Giants.
If an expert of that caliber had probed him, then so be it. What could he do?
March up to their door and demand an explanation? What a joke.
They probably meant him no harm and had merely paid him a little attention because of Hei Qing.
Besides, if they did harbor hostility toward him, he could not resist them anyway, could he?
Why worry that the sky might fall and heap needless troubles upon himself?
After returning to the Pill Lightning Pavilion.
Zhou Changqing's days remained as peaceful as ever.
It was just that, with Zi Yan gone, things felt especially quiet around him.
After gradually adjusting for a while, Zhou Changqing threw himself wholeheartedly into the great undertaking of improving his strength.
As he took on one bout of pill lightning after another, his strength steadily rose, and time swiftly slipped by.
In addition, he began refining the Tier 7 weapons he had been planning for so long.
Spatial Dou Tools!
His previous enlightenment had yielded enormous gains in other areas as well, beyond improving his cultivation technique to mid-grade Earth Tier.
Setting aside his Dou Techniques for now.
His artifact patterns alone had