After absorbing the Immortal Spirit Power from the Immortal Spirit Grass, Xu Yi was less than satisfied. It was like giving a seasoned baijiu drinker who was used to Erguotou a bottle of Jinlongquan beer. He certainly wouldn't be pleased.
All he hoped for was to get a few more crystal beasts and a few more aberrant spirit cores. Suddenly, he recalled the strange warmth he'd felt while absorbing an aberrant crystal core and told Huang Mei about it.
Huang Mei said, "I've heard that crystal cores contain impurities. It was probably just that."
Xu Yi didn't think so. As the one who'd experienced it, he knew very well that it had been an extremely pure power, definitely not an impurity.
Since even Huang Mei couldn't figure it out for now, Xu Yi stopped dwelling on it.
He went to the cave and woke Zhang Fang, Li Zhao, and the rest of the living dead.
They'd been buried there for so long that they'd woken up ages ago. But Xu Yi's restrictions were so powerful and thorough that even after waking, they couldn't move, nor could they release even a wisp of corpse qi. All they could do was stare, miserable and helpless.
Waiting like that, steeped in despair, was the cruellest torture of all.
If Xu Yi hadn't returned, they might have been left hanging there like strips of cured meat until they dried out completely. It was a cruel, heartless way to die.
Fortunately, Xu Yi came back and let them out.
Once the restrictions were lifted, the whole group looked dazed and rattled, like quail that had taken a terrible fright. Even the usually lively Li Zhao was now shrinking back, at a complete loss for words.
Xu Yi said, "Since you've all had enough rest, it's