"No."
In the Ming Dou Mountains, Tang Liu sat on a high tree branch, smiling down at Qingya, who was gazing up at him expectantly.
"Until I say otherwise, stay here. You are not allowed to respond to any of Dai Yunze's summons."
After leaving Dai Yunze's side, Qingya had Teleported to the Ming Dou Mountains to search for the other villagers. He had found them, but Tang Liu had detained him here, forbidding him from returning to Dai Yunze's side or even relaying what he had seen here to Dai Yunze.
He tried putting on a pitiful kitten face. "My lord—"
"Stop right there." Tang Liu looked at him with a cheerful grin. "You're already a fully grown tiger. The tricks you used in your juvenile form won't work so well anymore."
Qingya: "..."
His physical body had once been completely destroyed by Tang San. After Tang Liu recovered most of his energy core, he had rebuilt Qingya's body.
But even Dai Yunze did not know that Qingya had actually grown again from infancy, spending ten thousand years to recover to his former state.
Of course, he had only been a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast before. After his body was rebuilt and he grew anew, those ten thousand years had not merely returned him to his previous state. He now possessed two hundred thousand years of cultivation, enough to condense a human form.
In other words, he had taken only ten thousand years to go from a newborn Soul Beast to the Ferocious Beast he was now, with two hundred thousand years of cultivation.
The power of Tang Liu's Haolan Spell was an incomprehensibly excellent catalyst for both Soul Masters and Soul Beasts, far surpassing any heavenly treasure.
Qingya recalled something from not long ago—though that had also been a