Su Chen stayed with Ya Li for a week.
During that time, he went nowhere else. He cultivated with Na'er at night, drank tea and chatted with Ya Li during the day, and occasionally helped her with the housework.
With Yun Ming away, only Ya Li and Na'er were on Sea God Island. Su Chen's presence did not feel out of place; if anything, it made the courtyard feel more lived-in.
Over that week, Su Chen raised Ya Li's affection for him to 60.
Affection grew more slowly the higher it climbed. It would take time to build, but Su Chen had run out of time for now. Yun Ming was coming back...
The Coalition Army had won a decisive victory, destroying the Evil Soul Masters' headquarters and capturing or killing countless Evil Soul Masters...
Both of the Holy Spirit Cult's remaining Heavenly Kings had been captured and imprisoned. They would be tried later.
The news came from Leng Yaozhu through the Spirit Pagoda's communications channels. It was only a few lines long, yet it laid out the entire battle clearly.
As for the Holy Spirit Cult's Ghost Emperor and Nether Emperor, the Ghost Emperor might have been clever, but even he had not expected so many powerful fighters to storm their headquarters. He had no time to flee and was surrounded and killed by Leng Yaozhu and the others.
The Coalition Army took the Ghost Emperor's corpse and hung it among the ruins of the Holy Spirit Cult's headquarters for all to see. It was some measure of justice for those who had died at the hands of Evil Soul Masters.
Ha Luosa, the Pluto Douluo, had been gravely wounded, but he had escaped in the end.
Su Chen had expected as much.
After all, Ha Luosa was a