Changes (thanks to "Sun and moon in a pot, heaven and earth in a sleeve" for the million book-coin donation, 1/30)

As for the developments in Central Province...

Qin Shujian knew nothing about them.

Although he was an Array Dao Grandmaster and the sect master of a major sect in a Spirit Domain, he was far removed from the imperial court and had no access to any news from it.

Of course...

Even if he had known, it would not have changed anything.

For Qin Shujian, most of each day was now spent cultivating. Though his strength had undergone no substantial changes, it was steadily improving.

A month passed.

By then, all six of his divine tier, low grade cultivation manuals had reached the fourth level of their True Martial Chapters. He had also integrated the Teleportation Gate coordinates for the various cities that Xiao Hong had provided into Liangshan City's Teleportation Gate.

As for his Life Source...

It had finally risen to just over ten million.

With more than ten million points of Life Source...

Every cultivation manual and martial art except the Forging Ancestral Canon now displayed the option to upgrade.

But for Qin Shujian...

His foremost priority...

Was to upgrade the Origin Return Ancestral Canon.

This cultivation manual was only spirit tier, mid grade, and its limit was the sixth level of the Spirit Martial Realm. Yet its several powerful traits made it stronger than any of the other six divine tier cultivation manuals he had learned.

When he focused his thoughts on the Origin Return Ancestral Canon...

It did not upgrade directly. Instead, a message appeared in his mind.

``` "Extrapolating the twenty-seventh level of the Origin Return Ancestral Canon costs 10,000,000 Life Source!"

"Upgrading the Origin Return Ancestral Canon to the twenty-seventh level costs 10,000,000 Life Source!"

"Your Life Source is insufficient to extrapolate and upgrade simultaneously. Would you like to select one of these options?"