Just slaps required

He meditated throughout the night using the demon core evolution technique. He was so focused in meditation that he only realized it was dawn when noon had already arrived and the sun's glow had already reached every part of the kingdom.

He looked at his essence stat.

[Essence: 3.2]

Thankfully, he was able to add 0.3 essence to his stat, which made him really excited.

He ate lunch, grabbed his sword and a sheath, and walked out of the inn; he left his key with the old man.

[You have absorbed negative energy; essence +0.1]

He did not know who was harboring negative intentions toward him.

He has already walked from the shipyard down to the inn; his next target is to move between the streets, but he still won't cross the inn.

It took a straight path here and only saw those places along the straight route; right now he wanted to take curves around the place and see more for himself.

Unknown to him, he has just escaped a death flag—Tang Yu.

From the shipyard down to the inn, there