Despite Pei Xuanjing having resolved to deal with Qian Ning, the commander of the Brocade Guards, he clear-headedly assessed that he couldn't rush matters and needed to plan for the long term.
Picking up the Shenxiao Sword, Pei Xuanjing returned to his training room and continued to circulate his internal energy, refining his Blood Qi.
His battle against the southern ghost emperor three months earlier hadn't actually yielded much.
First and foremost, he had hoped to continue acquiring pages of the Netherworld Book. Regardless of its actual effects, alone the significant volume of Taoyun it could provide held an immense allure for him.
Unfortunately though, the southern ghost emperor, one of the five ghost emperors of the netherworld, did not carry any pages of the Netherworld Book, for reasons unknown.
