That was why he had been waiting so calmly in Tian Quan Pavilion. He had never expected the two people who had suddenly vanished to come back. He had a bad feeling, so he hurriedly asked them about it.
But Yue Ji didn't answer him. She simply stood there quietly and respectfully.
Wang Yue turned to Ming Hou and asked with a beaming smile, "Ming Hou, do you want to take revenge yourself? I can lend you some of my power."
Wang Yue's words tempted Ming Hou. He had actually wanted to do that all along, but Yue Ji had stopped him, so he had held back.
Now that Wang Yue had brought it up himself, Ming Hou asked solemnly, "What will I have to pay in return?"
Wang Yue grinned like a fox. "The price is that your cultivation will progress half as fast as usual from now on. If it normally takes you two days to recover your true qi, it'll probably take four. Other than that, there's nothing to worry about."
His method was basically a high-interest loan, only far gentler than Shen Chong's.
Using the rules, he could lend Ming Hou his true qi, allowing Ming Hou to take revenge with his own hands.
But what then?
Once Ming Hou had used up Wang Yue's true qi, it would be taken back. From then on, Ming Hou would become Wang Yue's perpetual-motion machine, constantly passing refined true qi into his body.
Of course, because this involved the power of rules, no one else could see it. They would only think Ming Hou's cultivation had slowed down.
Ming Hou assumed Wang Yue had used some special method to greatly boost his power. That would indeed damage his foundations, so it made sense for his cultivation to slow