However!
The cultivators did not stay around waiting for the people from the Yellow Ridge Gate to hand out their rewards!
Huang Huatian did not even take them sightseeing around the Yellow Territory. After a short rest, he opened the exit from the Yellow Secret Realm and led everyone out, leaving only Jade Fairy and Fairy Cang to refine the Earth Demon Dragon's blood, along with a few Great Void Stage Cultivators from the Yellow Ridge Gate whose business there was unknown. Li Xiaoya did not care, though. By his reckoning, even if the Yellow Secret Realm had contained any Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, the Earth Demon Dragon must have eaten them all. The realm's barren state said it all...
Meanwhile!
Li Xiaoya and the others followed Huang Huatian back to the valley where they had entered the Yellow Ridge Gate!
Huang Huatian courteously invited everyone back to the Teleportation Formation and sent them back first. The Demon Race cultivators might ordinarily have objected, but Li Xiaoya raised no objections. In this battle, the Rogue Cultivators had suffered the heaviest casualties. The Earth Demon Dragon's two Great Divine Abilities alone had blasted more than a dozen of them to death, and several unlucky ones had been struck directly by its tail. Lao De had actually survived a blow from that tail, which made him rather fortunate. Altogether, more than twenty Great Void Stage Rogue Cultivators had fallen, leaving fewer than ten alive. Two of the cultivators Huang Hao had brought from the Yellow Ridge Gate had also been killed. The sect had anticipated the danger and mostly fought while keeping out of harm's way, but losing two Great Void Stage cultivators was still a painful blow to the Yellow Ridge Gate.
With so many Great Void Stage Demon Race