The Starfall Boat hovered beneath the blood-colored clouds outside Myriad Demon Valley. The faint glow of space laws flowing over its hull intertwined with the crimson demon clouds, casting light across Han Li's face, which was as still as deep water.
In his palm rested the fragment of the Blood Soul Pill recipe he had obtained from an Enforcement Hall disciple. His spiritual sense repeatedly analyzed its writing-the Blood Soul Pill used blood soul grass as its primary ingredient, Ling Xiaozi's blood essence as a catalyst, and vengeful soul sand unique to Myriad Demon Valley as a supplement. Taking it could forcibly break through the barriers between cultivation realms, but it would corrode the divine soul, reducing the user to a puppet that knew only slaughter.
Zi Ling brought over some Spirit-Focusing Tea, her plain silver hairpin glimmering in the starry mist inside the boat. "Your brow is furrowed. Have you thought of a way to counter it?"
Han Li tapped the recipe fragment with a fingertip, and the system interface appeared at just the right moment: [Detected an ancient pill recipe capable of counteracting the Blood Soul Pill's side effects: Star-Origin Soul-Stabilizing Pill (obtained from the Void Sky legacy). Required primary ingredients: "Star-tear grass (mutated)," "Mind-cleansing jade marrow," and "Demon Emperor's Tear." Supplementary ingredients: "Spirit-calming flower dew" and "delusion-breaking fruit core." Current progress: missing "Demon Emperor's Tear" and "mind-cleansing jade marrow."]
"The Star-Origin Soul-Stabilizing Pill..." A glimmer flashed through Han Li's eyes. "The recipe I obtained in Void Sky Hall was created specifically to counter evil pills like this. But we'll have to venture deep into Myriad Demon Valley to find the Demon Emperor's Tear and mind-cleansing jade marrow."
Zi Ling took out a map of Myriad Demon Valley and pointed to a spot at the valley floor marked