"Too bad. I could have refined one more, but I was too stingy." King Li Dan shook his head, dissatisfied that he had only refined one Buddha-Dust Bone-Cleansing Pill. "I'm a little tired. I'll leave things here to Mr. Shi and take my leave."
"King Li Dan, please go rest. I'll take care of the remaining chores," Shi Zhongyi said with a nod. His gaze shifted to Lu Xiaotian and the other body cultivators who remained. "As agreed, I'll send you to the Netherdark Demon Mound."
"When are we going to the Netherdark Demon Mound?" the wild boar demon Pig Seven asked.
"Now," Shi Zhongyi replied.
"What? We're going to the Netherdark Demon Mound now?" Pig Seven wasn't the only one whose expression changed; even the Three-Eyed Lion-Scorpion Beast and the Purple-Green Ape Demon, the two strongest among them, looked alarmed. Although King Li Dan had given each body cultivator two Bone-Soul Pills to replenish them while he worked on refining the Buddha-Dust Bone-Cleansing Pill, the process had still taken a heavy toll on them all. By the time the pill was complete, the medicinal power of both pills had been almost entirely used up. After being put to use by King Li Dan for so long, they urgently needed to recover, whether from the drain on their blood-essence energy or on their Primordial Spirits. The Netherdark Demon Mound was no place for a vacation. Even at full strength, they wouldn't dare claim they could emerge unscathed, let alone in their current state.
Of all the body cultivators, Lu Xiaotian was the only one without a grudge. His blood-essence energy was far purer than that of the demons, and although the pill-refining process had taken a while, the two Bone-Soul Pills had replenished him enough that he still had strength