Morning light pierced through the glass windows of Qingteng High School, casting mottled shadows on Su Yao's desk. Three days had passed since the battle at the Dark Moon Club, and though the rescued victims had been properly settled, an unsettling sense of stagnation still lingered in the air. Twirling a fountain pen between her fingers, Lin Yu covered a notebook with mysterious runes and muttered, "The Blood Fiend Sect has been too unusually quiet. According to Ancient Tomes, every time they suffer a setback, they are merely brewing a more ruthless killing blow."
Zhao Ya bit open a carton of milk, ice crystals instinctively forming on her fingertips. "When I was patrolling the city last night, I found three areas with abnormal Spiritual Energy fluctuations. Although they vanished quickly, that aura... was identical to the stench of the Blood Fiend Sect's rot." Her gaze swept over the Xuantian Mirror that Su Yao had placed inside her drawer; a faint, secluded blue light was faintly visible beneath the black cloth covering the mirror's surface.
Su Yao closed the *Cultivation Pharmacology* textbook she was annotating, and as her school uniform cuff slipped down, it revealed a newly emerged star pattern on her wrist—the hallmark of the Stellar Body Refining Formula breaking through the sixth layer. "We're going to the secret realm to continue cultivating tonight." Pausing briefly, she took half a charred Jade Slip from the inner pocket of her school bag. "I found this on the …
Chapter 223