"I understand." An Jing closed his eyes and calmed down after a while. "Let's focus on our current predicament before pondering about the future."0

It was pointless to think about things that he couldn't do anything about. He focused and meditated on the Sword of Tranquility before inspecting his current status. The things he bought from the black market were all still with him. He had only lost a single drone subunit.0

When it came to his own body, he had expended one stream of Evenstar lethal qi to test out his power in the beginning and used four more to protect himself from the initial blast. Defending against the shockwaves cost him two more streams, totaling up to seven. He started with thirteen streams and was down to six, one of which being his origin stream that shouldn't be used for no good reason. That left five available for him to use for the time being.0

At the end of the day, he was only a River Essence cultivator that had a harder time converting essence into proper spirit qi, so recovering spirit qi took quite a...0