Chapter 244: Not Reckless
Li Musheng thought this over and decided to look into it when the opportunity presented itself later.
For now, it was more pressing to continue absorbing the blood of divine nature.
With that thought, he closed his hand gently, and a surging pulse of his aura directly ground the black fire core in his grip to dust. The brief burst of extreme heat and fire as it shattered scorched fire-line cracks into the surrounding space.
He then raised his hand and grabbed toward the street furrow below, and in an instant the blood of divine nature within the Scarlet Fire Honored Elder's body seeped out through the flesh, threading upward in wisps toward his palm.
With all of this done, Li Musheng shifted his position, returned to the rooftop of the Hundred Fragrance Pavilion, settled back on the ridgeline, and resumed simultaneously absorbing the blood of divine nature and refining the final portions of the Azure Dragon Profound Darkness Scripture.
At the same time, in the wine house not far away, the hemp-robed elderly man and Lin Xunner sat in a daze for quite a long while before gradually coming back to themselves.
The two of them stiffly turned their heads toward each other, one old, one young, their eyes meeting, and between them there was nothing but shock beyond all measure and a long, long wordless silence.
"Is he... even human?"
Lin Xunner's legs gave out and she dropped to the floor, murmuring involuntarily.