Xu Yi couldn't be bothered to waste words with Tu Ling. He gave him two instructions, then sent him on his way.
First, put the Hidden Spirit Pearl back where it had been and come retrieve it on schedule, so he could report on Mr. Wang's movements to that big shot.
Second, he'd thrown the bottle of Heart-Devouring Worms into the sea. Tu Ling shouldn't entertain any other ideas; his life or death was up to him.
Xu Yi was already an expert at using Heart-Devouring Worms to threaten people.
If he were to write it all down, he could fill a ledger inches thick with the various thoughts of those unlucky souls who had swallowed the worms.
He wasn't worried in the least that Tu Ling would try anything funny.
At Tu Ling's level of cultivation, nothing mattered more than his life.
Of course, there were people who valued righteousness above life itself. Tu Ling clearly wasn't one of them.
After seeing Tu Ling off, Xu Yi fell into thought.
His current situation was in bad shape, a tangled mess of problems.
He silently circulated the Clear Heart Art. After a moment of calm, he gradually sorted things out: Elder Bai was the key!
Whether it was standing up to that big shot, opening the treasury of cultivation resources in the Donghua Immortal Sect, or simply surviving within the sect, Elder Bai was someone he couldn't get around.
Thinking of Elder Bai, he suddenly remembered that he seemed to have tossed away the communication pearl Elder Bai had given him, leaving it in his Sumeru Ring instead of his waist pouch.
A communication pearl kept in a waist pouch worked in real time.
But stored in a Sumeru Ring, it was placed in a separate space, and the communication