The Meridian Nourishing Pill Took Effect

After teaching the thoughtless Song Zhiyong a lesson, Zhang Xiaohua walked along the mountain path, having calmed down somewhat. Thinking back on what he had just done, he was filled with regret.

Song Zhiyong had merely wanted to question him a few times and show off his heroic spirit. It would have been enough to ignore him—there had been no reason to treat him that way. His actions just now could practically be described as "losing his mind."

His mood was terrible, but there had been no need to vent it on the unlucky Song Zhiyong, who seemingly had no power to fight back. Thinking of that fellow struggling in midair, he truly was pitiful!

"Alas!" Zhang Xiaohua sighed inwardly. My cultivation of mental state is still not enough!

Actually, this was normal. Mental-state cultivation had always been a focal point in the cultivation of Qi Practitioners. Back when Zhang Xiaohua encountered Nie Qianyu, it had been because of his mental state that he had been unwilling to lend a helping hand; it had been the same in Lu Town. Later, Zhang Xiaohua comprehended the Heavenly Dao and made great strides in this regard, and it had never caused him trouble since.

Yet Zhang Xiaohua was, after all, only a seventeen- or eighteen-year-old youth, and his experience was still somewhat lacking. Meanwhile, the Immortal Path supernatural abilities he possessed had grown broader and broader, and he had slaughtered quite a few wild beasts within You Lan Grand Canyon. This, too, had been a kind of tempering for Zhang Xiaohua, and something gradually became amiss within his heart. Later, when he encountered Zhang Xiaohu, the joy of relatives reuniting covered up that unease, leaving Zhang Xiaohua unaware of it.

Now, however, he had failed to save Ou Yan. Though he possessed