At the mountaintop.
Luo Chen personally shut the wooden door of the thatched hut.
"Little Red, shrink!"
The Exploding Ape was obedient. Before Luo Chen's eyes, its body rapidly shrank.
In the blink of an eye, it was only fifteen feet tall.
Maintaining such a massive form had been quite a burden on it as well.
Luo Chen tossed it a pile of Spirit Fruits brimming with spiritual energy.
He ordered it to stand guard here.
Then he called Feng Xia and headed down the mountain.
Duan Feng was carried on Feng Xia's back. Even after taking numerous pills, he remained unconscious.
Though his cousin Duan Rui had possessed little combat power, his Qi Refining Great Perfection cultivation had been genuine.
Having slain him, Duan Feng certainly had not emerged unscathed.
Before long.
The three of them reached the mountainside.
Luo Chen did not linger. After handing the two over to Granny Yuan, who was skilled in Medical Arts, he continued downward alone.
No one came to disturb him.
Everyone knew that although Luo Chen had seemed not to exert any effort at the front lines of this battle, he had personally directed everything from its initiation to its planning and strategy.
Even the final cleanup had been secured by his earth-shattering strike.
This battle had been exceedingly brutal.
Although many Luo Tian Association cultivators had survived, they had also suffered heavy losses.
Under those circumstances, if the rogue cultivators of Great River Market had been incited to charge up the mountain.
Forget whether they could have kept their spoils of war.
The Luo Tian Association cultivators would likely have been wiped out to the last man.
Only Luo Chen, whose combat strength remained intact, could step forward and intimidate everyone.
Moreover, no one in the Luo Tian Association could