Chen Jing spent the rest of his time learning another enhanced martial art called "Sword Mind State," but he only scratched the surface. When trying to master Sword Mind State, Chen Jing felt his spiritual power becoming profound and obscure, and he often couldn't understand how to enter that mysterious and focused state.

According to experts, the Sword Mindset can make Chen Jing's mind more focused, enhancing his ability to withstand the aura of combat cultivators, the fear techniques of corpse cultivators, and any spells targeting will, mind, and intellect.

However, Chen Jing has not yet learned this "beginner level" martial art, which experts call the Sword Heart School, which made Chen Jing quite frustrated for a while.

After breaking through to the "mid-stage Blood Realm", Chen Jing could no longer find any spiritual energy to absorb from the outside world, but his mastery of the spiritual energy he already possessed became increasingly sophisticated. Now, the duration of his noise invisibility has increased to four hours, almost double that when he first entered the Blood Realm.

The spiritual energy consumption of using other martial arts remained largely unchanged, roughly equivalent to doubling Chen Jing's mana bar, significantly enhancing his sustained combat ability.

Unfortunately, these are all quantitative changes, not qualitative changes.

Besides these, Chen Jing had a secret development. He felt he could ask the source of darkness above his divine self two more questions, but he hadn't decided what to ask yet, so he put it aside for the time being.

Chen Jing hasn't fully grasped the mechanism of the Dark Source yet; he only feels that as his cultivation improves, it rewards him with some knowledge.

At home, Wan Tong's mood improved, she became more cheerful, and no one bothered her anymore. Uncle Zhang's illness began to improve, and he started to teach Li Huaxing some techniques. One time when Zhang Tao Ying came back, Chen Jing saw her outside putting away the belt around her waist. Chen Jing then realized that she had also become a member of the Black Hand gang.

However, Chen Jing didn't have much time to greet her or get close to her. Chen Jing was busy cultivating, studying, and recovering from his injuries. It seemed that she was not free either, and sometimes she was not at home for whole nights.

On the last day of the month, he was going to the Donglai Pawnshop.

Originally, Black Hand said that Chen Jing needed to accumulate merits before he could exchange them for cultivator pills and other items. However, Chen Jing hadn't even officially started working yet, and hadn't even received half a Blue Star Coin from Black Hand as salary. But Mo Wujiang told Chen Jing that next month he and others would receive pills to become cultivators.

Chen Jing guessed that this was a sign that the mastermind might be continuing to recruit more people!

But why was there no need for it in the ruined Meijing City, but the attitude changed after returning to Ash City? Chen Jing couldn't quite figure it out.

Chen Jing had discussed this matter with his master and inquired about the issue of taking pills. The expert warned Chen Jing that he must choose pills made from spiritual energy sediment of Dao Qi and could not take other types. Otherwise, he would suffer from qi deviation and his cultivation would not progress at all, or he would die directly.

PS: I only discovered the bug while organizing it QAQ. The ability that the slave soul used for shadow teleportation was Shadow Movement, but Chen Jing shouldn't have known that... It has been corrected.