Ren Ao

Daoist Yuanyuan said, "Three days from now, your Senior Uncle Tianyun, your Senior Uncle Chi Songzi, and I will be returning. If any of you wish to remain here to temper yourselves through combat with the Demon Race, you may do so. However, I must warn you: while such tempering is highly beneficial for your progress, the Demon Race is ferocious. You will be in extreme danger and could lose your lives at any moment. You must think this through carefully."

After speaking, he scanned the surroundings and saw the disciples divided into two camps. One group consisted of older cultivators whose path of cultivation had largely reached its limit; they generally chose to return to Sea Heaven Island. The other group consisted of younger disciples whose cultivation was advancing by leaps and bounds; these disciples chose to stay and fight the Demon Race.

The current generation of the Seven Sons of Sea Heaven all requested to stay. Seeing this, Daoist Yuanyuan sighed inwardly. He did not truly want these disciples to make such a choice, as they were all elites—especially the Seven Sons of Sea Heaven—but he understood that if these disciples did not possess such an unyielding spirit, their cultivation would not have progressed so rapidly.

The next day, the Seven Hegemons of the East Sea issued the rewards for Yan Chihuo. The reward consisted of a piece of Jade Soul Ice Essence and one hundred thousand Jade Crystals. The one hundred thousand Jade Crystals were one thing, but the Jade Soul Ice Essence was a top-tier spiritual material for refining a Magic Treasure Embryo, a truly rare treasure.

Following this, the high-level cultivators from the top sects of both the human and demon races began to withdraw in succession, though more than half of the cultivators and