After Su Jiu returned to her room that day, she began to feel unwell.
Her meridians had congealed, leaving her spiritual qi unable to circulate. Because of this, her injuries showed no sign of healing. The external wounds could be treated with ointment, but there was nothing she could do about the internal ones.
Meridian-Sealing Powder was a seventh-grade pill, and its effects would take a month to wear off completely. During that time, she could neither meditate to regulate her breathing nor use any arts. All Su Jiu could use now were sword moves and divine sense.
Su Jiu had never deliberately trained her divine sense, but to protect herself and prepare for any unexpected developments, she had begun cultivating it over the past few days.
Her divine sense was already powerful, but she had never consciously trained it. Now, with no one beside her to offer guidance, she began feeling her way forward, little by little, on her own for the first time.
She could clearly sense that whenever she used her divine sense, Little Gift seemed to grow very happy.
"You want me to use my divine sense?"
Little Gift shook its leaflike petals. "Your divine sense is connected to your soul. Strengthening your divine sense strengthens your soul as well. Every time you recover after using your divine sense, I can obtain something I need from that process."
Su Jiu was puzzled. "Something you need? Something like Ice Soul?"
"It's different. It feels different."
Su Jiu sighed. Knowing it could not explain clearly, she stopped asking.
Following what she had read in books and discovered through her own exploration, Su Jiu gradually began cultivating her divine sense. Within just a few days, she felt that it seemed to have made a clear breakthrough.
That day, the