"Old Li" turned his head away and said petulantly:
"Hmph, it was only a transaction, Bai Sheng. Give me back my energy!"
"Old Li" reached out toward Bai Sheng for the energy. Then he blurred forward and struck the Inner Core Disciple on the back of the neck, knocking him unconscious.
Bai Sheng readily handed him the little bottle.
"Tail, I remember your task before was only to find him. You didn't need to handle anything else, so why did you need to deal with a mara?"
"Old Li" let out a cold laugh.
"By the time you arrived, the daylilies would have gone cold. If I hadn't come along, this man would have fallen Mara-struck just like those people on the ground."
Tail pointed at the Mara-struck soldiers still struggling on the ground.
Tail had possessed Old Li mainly to stabilize the Mara-struck condition, using Old Li's own body as the price to suppress it.
"Don't think I made some huge mistake. This man killed quite a few people when he first became Mara-struck, but he didn't know it himself. How interesting. While Mara-struck, he killed plenty of comrades on the battlefield, and when he finally regained consciousness, he still thought he was the only survivor.
What a joke. This is downright heaven-defying. I'll leave him to you, Bai Sheng. I'm going back to rest."
After Tail finished speaking, he burrowed back into Huohuo's tail.
The cyan foxfire on Old Li's body slowly went out. Wherever the foxfire extinguished, ginkgo leaves rapidly sprouted, while a plant resembling tree roots slowly emerged from his body.
Bai Sheng and Huohuo naturally couldn't stand by and watch this happen. Bai Sheng reacted swiftly, using Aatrox's fire element to temporarily suppress the erosion of the Path of Abundance's curse.
Huohuo, meanwhile, took out