Hu Meier was still hesitating and struggling when Mu Bai spoke mildly, jolting him awake as though from a dream. Angry and ashamed, Hu Meier turned and ran out of the room, tears already covering her face.
"Why did it have to be this way! Why! Why..."
Hu Meier's tears burst their banks. She hated herself for being so weak, hated herself for being caught up in romantic feelings.
In truth, Mu Bai had naturally kept a fallback. With the innate ability of his Void Beast Soul spirit, he could still summon a realm of his own. Within that realm, even if Mu Bai lacked the strength to fight Hu Meier, he could protect himself. Moreover, Mu Bai had left a mental brand upon Hu Meier's mind. With a mere thought, he could shred her mind to pieces.
Mu Bai sighed softly, then calmed his mind again and devoted himself fully to controlling his three great soul spirit clones.
After this battle, Cheng Peng and his men harvested over ten thousand Beast Cores, all of fairly high grades. The Red-Eyed White Tiger's bones and the Gray Eagle giant eagle's wings were also fine materials for artifact forging. In the hands of artifact forgers, they greatly improved the human cultivators' combat conditions.
Mu Bai's Silver-Backed Ape Clone continued to guide the five young cultivators in refining medicinal pills. All five improved rapidly, especially the young man named Ya Qing, who possessed exceptional talent for pill refining. With his cultivation of Level Two Soul Power, he had already become capable of refining middle-grade second-tier medicinal pills in just a few days, a truly rare accomplishment.
The pill-refining materials, such as Beast Cores and beast blood, would last for some time, but plant-based medicinal ingredients remained extremely scarce. After some consideration, Mu Bai's