Chapter 115: Reflections After the Battle

Xia Baiqian, still in the room, was the first to regain her composure.

She glanced at the figure still lying on the ground—her pomegranate-red palace dress slightly open at the collar, her face flushed with a rosy hue. Though she made no deliberate attempt at allure, every movement tugged at the heartstrings.

Xia Baiqian couldn’t help but click her tongue.

“What a seductive fox. If she really used her charms, who could rival her?”

Luckily, she’s a bit dim-witted.

Xia Baiqian smiled. “Since you want to lie there a while longer, don’t blame me for sneaking off to find Master~”

Whatever secret you share with him, I’ll take it back a thousandfold!

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The spring water was warm and gentle, wrapping around Chu Huaizhou’s body like silk threads, sending out faint ripples of spiritual light. The temperature was just right—neither scorching nor cool, as if it were naturally meant to caress his skin.

He leaned back against the pool wall made of mystic ice jade and looked up at the dome above. Outside, it was daytime; clouds drifted and curled, a sight that soothed the soul.

Ah, after a fight, soaking in a hot spring and gazing at the sky—how delightful.

But after resting for a while… was Chu Huaizhou destined for toil or what? A short rest and he already felt bored, as if fully recovered and brimming with energy. To channel his restless vigor, he decided to sort through the gains from his trip to the Netherworld Sect.

First, the initial objective: teach the Netherworld Sect a lesson, reap some benefits, and find a way to recover his memories. Teaching them a lesson was definitely accomplished.

Originally, considering the balance among the various sects, Chu Huaizhou didn’t intend to go that far—he really just wanted to give a warning. But after witnessing the atrocities committed by the Netherworld Sect, even if he didn’t say it out loud, he felt deeply indignant.

So later, he might have put too much pressure on Tian Yuan, causing him to go full kamikaze and enjoy a luxurious, unlimited trip to hell.

The Netherworld Sect’s sect-protecting low-grade immortal treasure was gone, their Mahayana cultivators were dead, and the power of their protective formation was greatly reduced. It was definitely not as effective as before. Basically, it was crippled.

Bai Li told him that the hundreds of thousands of people in the pit had all been safely escorted out by the white foxes she transformed from her tail hairs. The Netherworld Sect’s base was completely exposed, and what followed was the revenge of countless sects piling on old and new grievances.

It was estimated that the five great demon sects would soon become four great demon sects, plus one demon sect without deep roots.

So he had exceeded the objective of teaching them a lesson.

Next was reaping the benefits.

Chu Huaizhou obtained a piece of jade that successfully upgraded the Nine Radiance Profound Abyss Ring to a mid-grade immortal treasure.

The newly added Creation Furnace, despite its infuriating success rate, was still overpowered.

The low-grade spiritual treasure, Startling Swan Sword, transformed into the top-grade spiritual treasure, Falling Snow Dragon Abyss.

Bai Li was uninjured and got high-purity wish power for free, which would help her in the future.

Xia Baiqian acquired the Netherworld Sect’s low-grade spiritual treasure, and in the future, she might be able to upgrade her top-grade spiritual treasure to an immortal treasure through the Creation Furnace. When he poured Tu Tianyi’s storage ring into the Creation Furnace, she said she had taken all the books on Gu techniques from inside.

With this inheritance from ancient times, her path of Gu would surely advance further. Perhaps it wouldn’t be long before she reached the middle stage of Mahayana.

Hmm, counting all this, it was quite a bountiful haul. It was a pity there were no eighth-grade pills, but that was to be expected.

After seeing the Netherworld Sect’s inhuman behavior, Chu Huaizhou could probably guess. Without spirit stones to buy pills, and with hardly anyone in the sect who could make healing pills, how did they recover from injuries?

They were simply beasts, not worth regretting their deaths.

Finally, and most importantly, the method to restore his cultivation.

On this point, Chu Huaizhou had indeed gained something. After using the eighth-grade pill, his cultivation had absolutely not changed. He could be sure of that. His cultivation was gradually recovering on its own, so there was definitely no delay.

That left two possibilities.

The first was that for higher levels, even a single eighth-grade pill could not raise him by a small stage. This was quite absurd—eighth-grade pills were used one and lost one, after all; where could one find Mahayana-level ingredients to refine them?

If he couldn’t even advance at the Nascent Soul stage, then he might as well forget ever reaching the Tribulation stage—it would be pure dreaming.

And relying solely on his own breathing technique? The cultivation method he practiced allowed him to automatically perform perfect breathing every day, yet his cultivation still didn’t increase at all.

That left the second possibility. There was an upper limit to restoring cultivation through pills. In the worst case, he could temporarily return to the peak of the Tribulation stage with pills, but he could not increase his cultivation when it had dropped.

How infuriating! What exactly had caused him to lose his memories and cultivation? Losing them was bad enough, but now he had to face the siege of his own heavy-gravity disciples.

Setting aside the stagnation of cultivation, the recovery of his memories was very strange. He had taken eighth-grade pills three times in total. Each time, the circumstances were different, and he couldn’t control the variables, so Chu Huaizhou hadn’t yet figured out how memories were restored.

But fortunately, it wasn’t completely hopeless.

The first time he took an eighth-grade pill, he was on his own peak and encountered no danger. The effect only raised his cultivation; his memories didn’t change.

The second time he took an eighth-grade pill was during the incident of dealing with Plague Lord. That time, he encountered something unusual—definitely an Otherworldly Demon. That was also the biggest variable in this playthrough.

If there was anything that could threaten him at the peak of Tribulation stage, half-step ascension, it would most likely be an Otherworldly Demon. So he could tentatively conclude that his amnesia was related to that entity. But he still hadn’t found a way to recover his memories—he couldn’t just capture and interrogate it.

Chu Huaizhou felt that in the current world, no one could be completely sure of subduing those terrifying beings. If he messed up, it could lead to total annihilation. Besides, there weren’t that many Otherworldly Demons around.

The third time he took an eighth-grade pill was barely for the sake of dealing with an Otherworldly Demon. Although the entity hadn’t appeared yet when Chu Huaizhou blocked it with a single sword strike. In the end, nothing was restored either.

Fortunately, afterward, he was given a method to restore his memories. Thanks to the Netherworld Sect’s sect master—his death was valuable.

At that time, when Tu Tianyi entered his sea of consciousness, intending to take over his body, he saw something terrifying. Chu Huaizhou could clearly sense that Tu Tianyi’s soul seemed to have something stuffed into it, and his entire being inflated like a balloon. Then he was struck dead by a lightning tribulation that suddenly appeared in the sea of consciousness.

When Chu Huaizhou woke up again, his cultivation and memories had simultaneously recovered to the middle stage of Nascent Soul.

So could it be that Tu Tianyi saw something, or that something was absorbed from his sea of consciousness? That caused Chu Huaizhou’s memories to recover significantly.

This provided Chu Huaizhou with a method to restore his memories: actively open his mind, let someone else enter his sea of consciousness, try to harm him, and then follow Tu Tianyi’s fate. Although this method sounded unreliable in many ways, at this stage, it could indeed be considered a way to recover. So it wasn’t without gains.

He hoped to quickly recover his memories and cultivation. Relying solely on eighth-grade pills for a few seconds of invincibility—there was still so little he could do.

Moreover, normally, if Chu Huaizhou absorbed something restorative, he could temporarily halt his cultivation’s decline, but it wouldn’t instantly return him to Mahayana level, so there wasn’t much sensation. That’s why when absorbing Tu Tianyi’s soul essence, it shouldn’t have caused an overflow. It seemed that his body also had a cooldown period for absorbing medicinal power. In a short time, using restorative pills and such could only raise his cultivation once.

Luckily, he didn’t rashly consume all his healing pills with the mindset of recovering even a little bit. Otherwise, he might have truly exploded and died.

“Whoosh—”

Next, he could probably rest easy for a while, waiting for Ye Feng to return safely from his mission. He would talk with Di Xiaoyao, but the hope was slim.

After experiencing so much, Chu Huaizhou couldn’t help but connect his amnesia to the Otherworldly Demons. Relying only on Di Xiaoyao, who had partially recovered his memories, to solve his problem would be very difficult. So the Shenghua Secret Realm was also a must-visit; he needed to obtain the fragment of Di Xiaoyao’s soul in the secret realm.

He hoped to quickly recover his memories and cultivation and defuse the crisis. If possible, he also wanted to find a Dao partner. From his understanding of himself, it was unlikely he would take a disciple as a Dao partner, but it was also unlikely that he had no Dao partner at all.

Chu Huaizhou cleared his mind and relaxed completely in the hot spring. Suddenly, he felt his neck tighten, and then a small shadow fell over his head.

Looking up, he saw a cherry-pink figure that had somehow drawn near.

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