The smoke of battle had yet to clear from Devilfall Valley, but the allied forces of the Heavenly South Star Palace had quietly begun their rest and reorganization.
Han Li reined in his horse on a high slope at the valley entrance and surveyed the bustling camp below. Under Wu Jiuzhi's leadership, Seven Mysteries Hall disciples wiped down their weapons. Yellow Maple Hall disciples carried freshly harvested spirit herbs on green bamboo shoulder poles to and from the Spirit Medicine Garden. External Affairs Hall cultivators gathered around the Star-Magnetic Sand Table in the Martial Arts Arena to work through tactics, while the Black Tiger Gang's maces and Green Bamboo Island's Poison Sting Darts cast crisscrossing shadows across it.
The Magnetic Essence Griffin spread his golden wings and circled above the camp. Wherever his golden feathers swept past, the smell of blood was cleansed away, leaving only the fresh fragrance of grass and trees.
"Palace Master, the Seven Mysteries Hall has finished reorganizing." Wu Jiuzhi strode forward, black blood from Devilfall Valley still staining his armor. "The Demon-Slaying Battalion now has thirty-five Core Formation Stage cultivators and one hundred and twenty Foundation Establishment cultivators, each equipped with ten Star-Magnetic Demon-Breaking Talismans. These talismans specifically counter blood fiend demonic qi. Hall Master Zhou improved them using the Talisman Primer from Yellow Maple Valley's Scripture Pavilion."
Han Li nodded and turned his gaze to the other side. "Hall Master Zhou, how are our supplies?"
Holding an account book, Zhou Tong bowed. "Reporting to the Palace Master, Yellow Maple Valley's spirit fields have yielded three thousand jin of star-patterned rice, enough to refine five hundred bottles of Peiyuan Pills. Three hundred copies of the Yellow Maple Qi-Control Art from the Scripture Pavilion have been transcribed and distributed to new disciples. We also extracted one