After no successes even after more than five attempts, Fang Xing began to grow anxious. Just as he was about to continue practicing, he realized that the remaining Qi he had was now scarce and—without other options—he took a sip of his spirit wine to recover. This particular spirit wine had been made by soaking ground up beast core with ordinary wine inside the bottle gourd.
It was an uncomplicated method he had discovered while in Mount Miasma, but by using it, the beast core would be better absorbed by the wine without as much waste. With zi’zhi of only rank D, Fang Xing could not draw Qi from the world around him, and the only way he could gather it was through relying on manual supplements from outside sources of Qi.
