Why had Li Xiaoya felt so vexed?
As it turned out...
To guard against the unexpected...
Li Xiaoya had kept a second precaution in reserve. When he went to kill the Four-Eared Giant Ape, he had also deployed his four clones, ready to act at a critical moment...
However...
With Ancient Tree's help, the Four-Eared Giant Ape had been killed before Li Xiaoya even needed to deploy his clones...
Still...
Thinking he might also have to deal with Ancient Tree, Li Xiaoya had left his four clones outside. Even when entering the tree hollow, he had kept that precaution in place. If Ancient Tree tried any tricks, he would not hesitate to send his four clones into action...
This time, however, Li Xiaoya had miscalculated...
Not only had Ancient Tree borne him no ill will, but the tree had also offered to heal him. And that treatment was rapidly restoring his injured nascent soul as well...
Now he was in a fine fix...
For all his calculations, his four clones were outside rather than within his body, so naturally they had no way to benefit from Ancient Tree's healing...
He had certainly lost out badly. The nascent souls of those four clones, cultivated through the One-Origin Nascent Soul Transformation Art, were severely injured. Without outside help, especially after the exhausting battle earlier, even the Red Lotus Immortal Fruit Wine would take quite some time to restore them... At least another two or three hundred years...
Although he did not know how much of his magic power and nascent soul Ancient Tree could restore, it clearly would not be a small amount...
At the very least, he ought to recover most of his strength...
Thinking of it that way, he had truly lost out...
Still, Li Xiaoya could hardly be blamed.