"Brother Wu, what are you saying? Never mind your friendship with Hundred Bones Elder—just the fact that you saved these disciples of our Cloud Purity Palace makes you a friend of Cloud Purity Palace. If we simply let you leave like this, how could Cloud Purity Palace ever hold its ground in the Crimson Blood Desert? Even I would be punished by the Palace Master upon my return."
The speaker was a short, fat man—the very Grand Elder Yi Fan. Though Elder Qin was also fat, compared to Yi Fan, he was utterly insignificant.
Yan Chihuo looked at the sincerity written across the fat man's face and truly could not find the slightest fault with it. Besides, he did not wish to leave in the first place, so he naturally went with the flow and agreed.
Yi Fan was overjoyed and became exceedingly warm toward Yan Chihuo. If Yuan Yangzi and his wife had not known that the two had never met before, they might have taken them for blood brothers.
Yan Chihuo sized Yi Fan up and silently sighed. No wonder Cloud Purity Palace had sent this man to receive this group of Dao Integration Stage Cultivators. His soul had already been injured, and there was a strong chance he would be unable to survive his next heavenly tribulation.
After all, Tianyang Kingdom and Cloud Purity Palace were currently in a period of escalating conflict. Eliminating even one Spirit Cultivation Stage cultivator from the other side counted as no small victory. Unless absolutely necessary, Cloud Purity Palace would never casually send Spirit Cultivation Stage cultivators out of the palace.
Yan Chihuo cultivated the Innate Seventy-Two Transformations and had already fused countless souls. His soul was so powerful that it nearly rivaled that of a cultivator newly entered into the