"I'm going to be busy for a while. Cultivate on your own, and come find me anytime if there's anything you don't understand." Yuan Xi gave her instructions, then hurried off again.
Lu Ye did not mind. He had gained quite a lot from this battle. Of Flowing Light City's fifty-odd Merging Dao cultivators, thirty had died at his hands. Only those left behind to guard the city had luckily escaped with their lives. That was only because Yuan Xi had not wanted to pursue them. Otherwise, all of Flowing Light would have been slaughtered clean.
The Merging Dao cultivators he had killed had yielded quite a few Dao Bones and Dao Soldiers. After refining them, not only could he replenish the Dao power he had expended, he would even have plenty left over.
Only he could manage such a thing. If it were another Merging Dao cultivator, after a major battle, even a one-on-one fight, there was no way their consumed Dao power could be replenished through spoils of war.
Lu Ye returned to his Great Commander's Mansion. He first refined the many Dao Bones and Dao Soldiers he had seized, then began examining the Storage Rings of those Merging Dao cultivators.
He had been hoping to find Dao Fish or something similar within them, but though there were many Storage Rings, he did not find a single Dao Fish.
On reflection, once Merging Dao cultivators obtained Dao Fish, they probably would not keep them stored away. They would choose to refine them to increase their strength. Thus, although Lu Ye had seized quite a few Storage Rings since entering the Inner Realm, he had never obtained even one Dao Fish.
After dealing with everything simply, Lu Ye entered a state of bitter cultivation once more.
This time, he