Elder Yu took the Spirit Stones, set aside a portion for public use to build the Artifact Refining Guild, then used the rest to buy a great deal of wine and meat, inviting the craftsmen and monster hunters to another hearty feast.
The wine counted as good wine, but the meat was not spiritual meat.
With so many cultivators, Elder Yu could not afford to treat them all to spiritual meat. He found Mo Shan and spent Spirit Stones to ask Liu Ruhua to help cook some demonic beast meat.
There was beef, mutton, chicken, and more, stewed together with spicy seasonings. All sorts of aromas mingled together, smelling extremely tempting, and there was so much of it that everyone could eat their fill.
Everyone feasted to their hearts' content. Mo Hua also ate with great delight, and the Artifact Refining Guild brimmed with a lively, cheerful air.
Only Master Ban ate without tasting a thing.
He had originally been worried that with Mo Hua alone drawing arrays, there would not be enough hands, and they would fail to keep up with the schedule.
Now the Qian Family had come to make trouble time and again, injuring craftsmen, destroying some buildings, and forcing some arrays to be redrawn. At this rate, it looked even more certain that they would not make the deadline.
Master Ban sighed. The wine in his mouth tasted both sour and bitter, and he could not tell what flavor it was anymore.
Mo Hua, who was gnawing on a big chicken leg with both hands, saw Master Ban's expression and asked, "Master Ban, is something on your mind?"
Master Ban sighed again, his heart full of worries, yet he did not know how to begin.
He could hardly urge Mo Hua and tell him to draw