Seeing the two Beast Armies withdraw in haste one after the other, the cultivators of Qishan Canyon were bewildered and uncertain, unable to tell what game these two Demon Generals were playing. Mu Bai's Silver-Backed Ape Clone, however, understood perfectly and told everyone with a smile that they could rest easy: the Beast Armies really had withdrawn.
Only after three consecutive days passed without the Beast Armies returning did the cultivators in Qishan Canyon relax their guard. They marveled that Young Master Mu's methods truly were divine. Without losing a single soldier, he had repelled the Beast Race Alliance Army led by two great Demon Generals and spared them a calamity.
Over these days, Mu Bai's Silver-Backed Ape Clone had refined large quantities of medicinal pills, and the five young Alchemists had all made enormous progress. They could even teach others alchemy now. Mu Bai could not help laughing at himself: before he knew it, he even had grand-disciples.
Huang De returned to Jiayu Fort to find more than half its buildings collapsed, all shattered by lightning strikes or burned down by lightning fire. The City-Defending Beast Army had suffered considerable losses, but its foundations remained intact.
With the deputy general defending the city dead, Huang De could only ask Mu Bai and Hu Meier what exactly had happened in the city.
Hu Meier gave a vivid account, saying that a powerful Human Race cultivator had suddenly appeared in Jiayu Fort, bringing lightning that filled the sky. The deputy general had fought him but proved no match, dying at his hands within a few moves. Meier had been unable to defeat him either. In the end, only Young Master Qi's intervention had driven the intruder back, keeping Jiayu Fort from falling into another's hands.
Mu Bai smiled without speaking. Watching