Three days later, late at night.
Pine and Bamboo Residence.
The Back Courtyard.
"Senior Blade Ghost."
Xu Taiping walked over to Blade Ghost, who was absorbing the power of peerless-grade flint, and softly called him awake.
Over the past few days, Blade Ghost had been restoring his fighting strength.
Blade Ghost opened his eyes.
After nodding lightly to Xu Taiping, he rose thoughtfully.
He seemed to be gathering his thoughts.
"Everyone is here,"
Xu Taiping added.
Taiping and Old Daoist Huang were already standing behind him.
Blade Ghost glanced at Old Daoist Huang and Taiping, then frowned and asked Xu Taiping,
"How is Xiaohei?"
Xu Taiping answered earnestly,
"Xiaohei is still sleeping in the Secret Realm. He should need another half month or so to fully digest Yin Marshal Baowei's power of the Ghost Gods."
Blade Ghost's brows knitted slightly.
"If he needs another half month, I'm afraid he won't make our first two trips into the Yellow Springs."
Xiaohei had inherited part of Leopard Tail's power of the Ghost Gods.
Thus, during their discussion a few days earlier, Blade Ghost had proposed taking Xiaohei into the Yellow Springs with them.
Though Xu Taiping also felt some regret, his expression soon relaxed as he said,
"Our first two trips into the Yellow Springs will mainly be to gather information. The few of us should be enough."
Over the past two days, the Lotus Eye had been seeing visions of the Yellow Springs more and more often.
He did not want to wait any longer.
Blade Ghost nodded.
"If we're only gathering information, being short a measure of fighting strength won't be a problem."
As for their current fighting strength, Blade Ghost was in the Quasi-Half-Immortal Realm, while Xu Taiping and the other two were all in the Heaven-Connecting Realm. They