Half a month had passed since the destruction of the Ghost Soul Sect.
Xiao Yu had not killed those people from the Soul Palace. Instead, he had used the Heart Puppet Thunder Flame to enslave them all.
It was not that he was softhearted. Killing them would only treat the symptoms, not the root cause. He might as well keep them all under his control as chess pieces to be put to use later.
The advantage of this was that it would deceive the Soul Palace, letting them believe everything was still under control and their experts were still gathering souls in the Northwest.
As for the Soul Palace's Fourth Heavenly Venerate, Xiao Yu had already ordered him to return to the Soul Palace.
There were two reasons for sending him back. The first was to pass along false information, letting the Soul Palace learn that the Tou She Ancient God Jade was in Xiao Yan's possession. That way, their efforts to seize the Xiao Clan's Ancient Jade would be focused on Xiao Yan.
Not only would this make the Soul Palace overlook the Xiao Clan, it would also put pressure on Xiao Yan, making him fight monsters, level up, and grow ever stronger. As for whether Xiao Yan might encounter danger because of it, Xiao Yu was not worried. After all, in the original story, the Soul Palace had known Xiao Yan possessed the Ancient Jade, yet nothing much had come of it.
After taking care of these matters, Xiao Yu went into seclusion and began refining pills. He now had a great quantity of medicinal ingredients on hand, and only by refining them into pills could he put them to use.
Xiao Yu handed the ingredients for pills below the mid-grade seventh rank to the Alliance's Alchemy Hall.