Chapter 22: Blood-Nourishing Keanu

The moonlight lay hazy, and the sky seemed crowded with more stars than before, packed tight across the heavens. Daxton Mabbett dealt with the two corpses with a few quick, efficient motions, then returned to his small courtyard. He took out a gray pouch. Inside lay two spirit stones the size of pigeon eggs. "First-Grade, mid-tier." Spirit stones were condensed from the world's natural aura, indispensable for cultivation. The cultivation world graded them with ruthless strictness: nine ranks...