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"": "The three of them were still walking along the mountain road.
The mountain road was unnaturally quiet, with scarcely a stray sound.
Most of the Spirit Mediums had fled down the mountain.
They were moving at a brisk pace.
Fourth Master Gray joined them along the way.
Throughout the journey, Shangguan Xingyue kept hesitating to speak.
"Little Luo, Fourth Master has something to ask you."
"You didn't handle that right."
Fourth Master Gray spoke first, squeaking into Luo Bin's ear.
"Even if you wanted him to leave straightaway, you shouldn't have given him a Corpse Core. Or you could've had him hold it in his mouth. I'd have taken him away, then pulled the core back out."
"We took a huge loss, you know?"
Luo Bin merely smiled without answering.
"What are you grinning about? You botched it. Did you get carried away back there? Thought you were so impressive, running circles around someone capable of Yin Spirit Projection?" Fourth Master Gray's words carried unmistakable anger and reproach.
"What he ate was the core from Primordial Calculation's Monk Corpse-yes, the Corrosive Bone Poison Corpse. That core contained malicious thoughts. Keeping it was useless to me. Luo Shan nourished it with his life force, which had some effect, but Yuan Yinxin siphoned away most of that life force, so the effect wasn't particularly great."
After a brief pause, Luo Bin explained further, "I expelled part of his yin energy and provoked him into releasing his Corpse Worms again, but that wasn't thorough enough. Giving him a tainted core was the only way to settle it once and for all. I don't believe he'll discover it easily. And in his current condition, even if he does, will Upper Corpse Green let him remove the Corpse Core from