Sometimes, even if you saved someone, they would not necessarily be grateful to you. This was especially true of petty people, or enemies. You saved them, yet they might still bite back at you. That was perfectly normal.
Perhaps the Third Prince himself was not that sort of person. After all, he was a formidable hero. Even if you helped him, he would still stab you in the back. But Huo Hai had no choice but to guard against it. Besides, Huo Hai did not know what kind of person this fellow leading the group was.
At present, the other side still had nearly five hundred experts left, every one of them in the Spirit Practitioner Realm. Huo Hai himself might not have cared about them, but the people under his command were far too weak. Who knew whether they would stir up something disgusting when the difference in strength became too great? It was just as well to let them wear themselves down here.
If they died themselves, they could still make some contribution to the Southern Cloud Kingdom by killing more elite Demonfolk. Huo Hai knew that creating Demonfolk in the Spirit Practitioner Realm was no easy matter.
Even if all the Spirit Practitioner Realm Demonfolk in the entire Southern Forest Kingdom were added together, there definitely would not be many. According to the records in that book, creating a Spirit Practitioner Realm Demonfolk required at least a Spirit Bone Realm Peak expert as material, and even then there was a high chance of failure.
If Demon Spirit Masters wanted to borrow the strength of the Southern Forest Kingdom, then more people in the Southern Forest Kingdom would choose Demonicization and become Demon Spirit Masters themselves. That made such materials even scarcer. Huo Hai paid them no mind