"You're back so soon? I thought you'd be gone a little longer!" Xiaoyaozi said, a flicker of surprise in his eyes as he saw Shi Yue.
"The Devil Race has been wreaking havoc everywhere. I couldn't rest easy, so I hurried back ahead of schedule," Shi Yue said with a faint smile.
Xiaoyaozi nodded. "The Devil Race really is becoming more and more troublesome. Their war in the Tianxu Star Domain was a trap from the start. Mo Yunzi's true aim was to tie down several of our Mahayana cultivators, then use the opportunity to attack the Gongsun and Situ Families' strongholds. Still, the Gongsun and Situ Families are among the Five Great Immortal Clans, with long and venerable histories. Mo Yunzi must have had a rough time of it too."
Even after turning a Houtian Immortal Artifact into a demonic one and greatly increasing his strength, Mo Yunzi couldn't simply come and go as he pleased. The Five Great Immortal Clans weren't pushovers, after all.
"Who knows? We pursued Nangong Feng and gravely wounded her and the Blood Ancestor. The Devil Race probably won't show its face again anytime soon, so we can recuperate for a while—and that's what we need too," Shi Yue said gravely. With the Heaven Controlling Bead in hand, the longer he could delay things, the more experts he could cultivate, and the stronger he would become himself.
The Devil Race had been fighting humanity for hundreds of years, and its losses had been considerable. It needed time to recuperate as well.
The Devil Race had few experts to begin with. If it wanted to keep fighting, it would have to recuperate for a while.
Xiaoyaozi nodded. "That's true. I've already passed on the cultivation method for the Spirit Domain to Qu Girl and Murong