The journey back took eleven days.
Leon checked his cultivation on the safe nights. Early Qi Refinement remained stable, but the dark cores offered the same difficulty as before. He could recover small amounts of energy from them. He could not make that irregular trickle support the circulation he needed for another attempt.
The Moonfall purchases gave him cleaner supplements. What he needed now was a better way to use the resources already in his hands.
Ji received him three days after their return.
"Shan has the two prisoners' accounts from the Shen estate," she said. "They agree with the records you recovered."
"Then he has enough?"
"To proceed. He will handle the rest." She placed a requisition slip on the table. "Your reward has been approved. Purchasing credit and one cultivation treasure from the second vault. The four women receive separate material allocations."
