As for the Mittel Family, Xiao Yan had no intention of moving them all to the Black-Corner Region. To him, the family could only serve its greatest purpose in the Jia Ma Empire. With auction houses spread throughout its cities, it was quite effective at gathering intelligence. Moving it to the Black-Corner Region would only defeat the purpose.
So Xiao Yan merely had Hai Bodong return to bring back a group of elites, then establish Mittel Auction Houses in the various cities of the Black-Corner Region. Whether making money or gathering intelligence, they would be countless times more efficient than the current Xiao Gate. As for the Mittel Auction House headquarters in the Jia Ma Empire, Xiao Yan also had Hai Bodong take a batch of medicinal pills with him. These pills were selling like wildfire even in the Black-Corner Region, let alone in the Jia Ma Empire.
After sending Hai Bodong off, Xiao Yan resumed cultivating the Nine Revolutions Soul Refining Art. The Soul Flame he had previously condensed had already been used up in the Ruins of Return. To use it again, he would have to condense a new one from scratch, an extremely troublesome process. If he wanted to summon the Soul Flame directly, he would have to temper a true flame seed.
Of course, tempering a flame seed was not something he could accomplish in a short time. It required a long period of uninterrupted tempering before success was even possible. That was also why Xiao Yan had not tried cultivating a flame seed directly before. This time, however, he had plenty of time, so he intended to forge the soul flame seed in one sustained effort.
After a day of rest, Qing Lin gradually recovered as well. Perhaps because of what Xiao Yan had said,