What Huo Hai had not expected was that although the bats on Bat Island had little fondness for humans, they still liked getting close to them. Then again, that made sense. Otherwise, how would they have learned to speak?
In the eyes of these Spirit Bats that had already taken human form, humans were practically heaven and earth's favored children, born with advanced intelligence. Unlike them, the vast majority of Spirit Bats only gained advanced intelligence after breaking through to Spirit King. A few exceptional ones possessed it at the Spirit Marshal or even Spirit General Realm, but without breaking through to Spirit King, these Spirit Beasts still could not speak.
They liked approaching humans and learning everything about them, using human wisdom to provide better living conditions for themselves and their kin. Thus, even though they knew perfectly well that Huo Hai was powerful, dangerous, and domineering...
These transformed Spirit Bats still steeled themselves and came before Huo Hai to ask him questions. Thinking it over, Huo Hai felt somewhat guilty about having killed two of their fellow Spirit Bats. After examining them, he found that their spirit veins were developing toward a human configuration.
So Huo Hai did not hold back. He took out some relatively ordinary Spirit Arts and Battle Spirit Arts and gave them to the bats. What he did not know was that practicing human Spirit Arts could accelerate a Spirit Bat's transformation. He never imagined that this single act would turn their tribe into a powerful force in the Mistcloud Lake region in the future, producing quite a few Spirit Emperors.
Huo Hai was not particularly patient either. Often, after tossing copies of some secret arts to the Spirit Bats, he went back to cultivating on his own. The Spirit Bats only dared seize