"Many thanks, Venerable Yao..."
Xuan Protector and Han Feng's cruel deeds were still fresh before their eyes. Seeing Yao Lao, who had dealt with the two of them, fly out of the deep pit, everyone hurriedly bowed and spoke with respect.
Yao Lao nodded faintly, held up the Sea Heart Flame, and drifted into the distance with his hands behind his back. Xiao Yan cupped his fists to the crowd, then followed Yao Lao and disappeared from everyone's sight.
"Venerable Yao truly deserves to be the continent's number-one alchemist! He dealt with two Dou Zong just like that!"
"Exactly. If not for Venerable Yao, we'd probably have been killed by Han Feng already!"
"That's right, that's right..."
Yun Zimo listened to the voices around him and watched Tie Wu moving through the crowd, loudly praising Yao Lao, his expression turning somewhat odd.
First Elder Su Qian really knew how to play this. These Dou Emperor experts cared greatly about face; after a round of moral pressure, Yao Lao's reputation had been pushed sky-high. Add to that the fame Yao Lao had once left on the continent, and as long as those fellows from Soul Hall weren't peeking at the script, it was almost impossible for Yao Lao to be captured now!
"Only that man-rank Protector is left among Soul Hall's Protectors in the Northwest Continent..."
Yun Zimo sighed softly inwardly, pondering how to deal with this lone seedling of Soul Hall's western office...
"This is Han Feng's storage ring, and the Sea Heart Flame..."
Having personally dealt with Han Feng, much of the knot in Yao Lao's heart had been untied, though a trace of complexity remained. After handing the bone-white ice crystal that sealed the Sea Heart Flame and the deep-blue storage ring to Xiao Yan, he prepared to