Given the First Ghost Spirit Sect Master's strength, the amount of essence blood he needed to restore his own would certainly be immense.
He could not possibly devour the essence blood of experts whose strength approached his own. How could such experts be easy to deal with?
Especially now, when neither his essence blood nor his strength had fully recovered.
His only option was to unleash a massacre, slaughtering people in the Jianghu weaker than himself.
He would use quantity to make up for the lack of quality in their essence blood.
Perhaps only after his essence blood gradually recovered and his strength rose would he turn his attention to some of the powerful Old Fools in the Jianghu.
Huang Xiao did not further torment the people brought under guard. He let them die peacefully, without suffering any further torture.
After devouring their essence blood, Huang Xiao soon restored his own to around seventy percent.
That was about the same as his condition before he practiced the Blood Exhaustion Method and dispersed his essence blood.
He did not continue devouring other people's essence blood. Through this attempt, he had already gained a deeper understanding of the Blood Exhaustion Method, and that was enough.
Huang Xiao still wanted to recover his depleted essence blood slowly on his own. In his view, restoring his strength by devouring outsiders' essence blood was still somewhat improper.
Fast it might be, but fast did not necessarily mean good.
Even after outsiders' essence blood had been converted to bear the Essence Blood Aura of his own, it still could not compare to the essence blood generated within his body.
While restoring his essence blood and true qi, Huang Xiao also practiced the Demon Refining Formula to refine his true qi. He did not want any unexpected