After listening to Liang Lishi's account, Liang Zhaohuang could not help looking toward the thousand or so cultivators cleaning up the battlefield.
These were all survivors of the Demon Calamity in the East Sea. Having followed Liang Lishi through more than a year of campaigns across the East Sea, they had slaughtered Demonic Beasts and fought Devil Lords. Every one of them, even those with merely Qi Refining cultivation, had been tempered into battle-hardened fighters.
Liang Lishi's successful cultivation of the Five Elements Dao Body during this journey to the East Sea was one gain, but her greater harvest might instead be these "avengers" who had followed her into battle against the demonic path.
Among the cultivators cleaning up the battlefield, people continually glanced in their direction, seemingly awaiting their decision.
Liang Zhaohuang withdrew his gaze and looked to Liang Lishi. "Can you keep these people under control? Can you bring them back to Liu Province?"
"Please rest assured, Clan Head." Liang Lishi answered confidently, "This niece-in-law has led them through more than a year of battle, surviving death's door hundreds of times. We have long forged bonds that will not be abandoned even in life and death."
"I also told them long ago that I would take them back to Liu Province, and they have all agreed."
"Oh?" Liang Zhaohuang looked at her.
Liang Lishi smiled. "These people are pitiable souls whose homes were destroyed by the Demon Calamity and whose loved ones died at the hands of the demonic path. So long as someone can lead them in revenge against the demonic path and give them new hope, naturally it will not be difficult to gather them in hand and command them."
Liang Zhaohuang nodded slightly at that and asked no further questions. He trusted that after more