Chapter 666: Buying Stones, Hunting Ghosts
The journey took eleven days, and almost nothing happened.
They travelled openly — Palace transport to the coast, then the northern road with an authorisation that opened every waystation without a question. Two months ago Leon had come the other way with a temporary jade and a merchant's borrowed clothes. Now a garrison captain recognised the household mark on Vyra's token and had their horses changed before she finished asking.
Leon spent the safe nights inside the dimensional world and did not gain a thing, which he had expected.
Early Qi Refinement held perfectly. The layer did exactly what he had built it to do, but his early estimates suggested Mid Qi Refinement would demand at least as much energy, and the seven cores were dark.
