City Lord's Mansion.
In a quiet room scented with tea, the women sat scattered across the floor in relaxed meditation. Vast energies circulated within their bodies, supplied by the essence of flesh and blood Shen Hanyu had refined. Once fully absorbed, everyone's Soul Power Level would rise by at least a small margin. Its true effect, however, lay in improving their physical constitution.
Mad Bull Douluo tactfully refrained from involving himself further in their affairs. After finding an excuse, he hurriedly left the City Lord's Mansion. Even Xie Shiyu could not guess where he had gone.
Even so, Xie Shiyu did not doubt Mad Bull Douluo's loyalty.
Mad Bull Douluo had grown up in the Tianyin Sect. Among the several Titled Douluo cultivated by the sect, he ranked in the upper-middle tier in strength. At the same time, he was one of the few Titled Douluo in the Sun Moon Empire who had achieved his cultivation without taking pills or relying on medicinal stimulation. Yet because of an accident, his fifth Soul Ring was only a thousand-year Soul Ring. That was especially regrettable. Looking back on it, the Tianyin Sect's elders bore more than eighty percent of the responsibility for that outcome.
Xie Shiyu did not particularly care. Shen Hanyu's group was shrouded in mystery, both in origin and strength. Mad Bull Douluo might be powerful in the Sun Moon Empire, but before this group, he was no different from an ant. Besides, they had not only helped her resolve her fire poison, but had also given her a rare treasure invaluable to a Soul Master's cultivation. Though she did not believe they held much friendship toward her, it was enough that they were companions on the surface for now.
Some things could not be forced, but some things were