Time passed.2

Xu Qing wasn’t feeling anxious. He killed Hellfei quickly the first time, but the roughly dozen times after that... he took his time dissecting and studying it. The reason he needed a dozen times was partly because his careful study often led to Hellfei’s death in the name of research. But more often than not, Hellfei would spit out some poison that infected the area, including Xu Qing’s godliness. And that caused an obstacle for his research.8

In the end, it didn’t matter. Whenever Hellfei died, it only took a few dozen breaths of time before it was back. That provided Xu Qing plenty of opportunities to lure the poison out of it using his soul threads. That was the best way he could come up with at the moment to deal with Hellfei’s poison. After all, the poison targeted godliness, and the source of Xu Qing’s godliness was his soul threads.1

At the same time, he also continued to use his own poison to vie with Hellfei’s poison. The result was that the ruins he occupied were filled with more and more soul threads.1

Even still, Xu Qing continued with his study. The biggest downside... was that even after Hellfei had died dozens of times, its battle prowess continued to climb with...5