Bai followed closely by Di Tian, walked towards Lingling's tree where Mei's true body was. Approaching the tree, Bai could sense the great increase of vitality in the air, every breath seemed to improve his body.
Bai reached Mei who had her eyes closed as she was focused on the outside. Next to her, stood Myriad in a similar position and Lingling who was standing with a worried face looking at Mei and Bai.
"What are you planning, Bai?" asked Lingling "I know that face of yours, you are thinking about something else apart from healing Mei."
"You know me well" Bai smiled at Lingling "My main objective is healing her, but I want to try something about the ants' aura. Don't worry it won't affect Mei."
"Hurry up" Myriad said "Mei is becoming worst. I won't keep her in check much time before it affects the defense against the ants."
"I will start" Bai approached Mei whose face was all tense, making a suffering expression, laying his right hand over Mei's forehead. This was one of the times that Bai was thankful for his new torso spirit bone. If his body didn't become like a sword, he would need to actually invoke his spirits, even piercing Mei with a Life focused one to increase his potency. Of course, doing this would have provoked Di Tian to attack him even if he didn't mean anything bad.
Once Bai's palm touched Mei's forehead, Bai focused his spirit and mental energy over Mei, adjusting covering with Life Intent to make it more similar to Mei, this way he won't be attacked by the own Mei, only by the invading aura.
(Devour! Death! Eat! Resent! Devour! Ear! Kill!) Bai's mind was suddenly attacked by negative feelings, he stepping back unconsciously.
Bai closed his eyes and focused on his own mind space. Even when he only was connected to Mei for an instant the negative feeling persisted, but they were so little and weak that it was easy to ignore them.
When facing such influencing aura in your own body, there were mostly two methods to fight it to extinction, not affecting you. Fighting it with an opposite attribute, this was effective as both of them will cancel each other, the problem is that will weaken oneself and if it surpasses your power it would start to affect you. Bai supposed that this was the case for Mei even if she fought it unconsciously.
The other was overpower with a similar attribute with a greater comprehension behind. In this case, the new invading aura will only make oneself stronger being devoured nourishing oneself. Of course, if the invading aura had a greater comprehension than yours, it didn't matter if there very little of it, it could completely devour yours, almost instantly falling under its control.
Bai wanted to try the second option. Trying with a very weak quantity at first to compare with his own Slaughter. Even if the ants' aura was stronger than him, he was sure to stop such a little aura for affecting him. This was why he was the perfect one to heal Mei, his Life Intent would permit go over Mei's defense while his Slaughter will devour the invading aura.
Bai focused his Slaughter Intent over the tiny ants' aura, seeing that even if the aura tried to fight it quickly fell pray from his Slaughter. Making sure that he could face against it, Bai opened his eyes decisive to try it on Mei. It wouldn't be the same as fighting the high concentration aura would mean greater risk, but at least he was sure to be able to face it without instantly falling for it.
Bai's hand started glowing with warm green and white light, putting over Mei again.
(DEVOUR! DEATH! EAT! RESENT! DEVOUR! EAT! KILL!DEVOUR! DEATH! EAT! RESENT! DEVOUR! EAT! KILL!DEVOUR! DEATH! EAT! RESENT! DEVOUR! EAT! KILL!) This time the effect was much greater but Bai didn't step back. Bai put his left hand over Mei's head, using both his Life and Death comprehensions, he pushed the ant's aura with Life while encasing it with Slaughter.
Bai's left hand started glowing black and purple as the ants' aura was slowly leaving Mei, being transmitted towards Bai. As the aura was leaving Mei, Mei's face was relaxing while Bai's was becoming tenser. Bai clenching his teeth trying to keep up with the new invading aura.
After 30 minutes, Bai's hands stopped glowing, separating from Mei. Mei opened her eyes that recuperated her usual shining jewelry red, not the bloodshot one. Her sight wasn't clouded at all as she was completely free of the ants' aura influence
Mei looked at Bai with a worried and remorseful look "Sorry, Bai" Tears were filling her eyes "Sorry to all for attacking you. "Thank you so much Bai!" She said between sobs.
"You're welcome." Bai said with a painful expression forcing a smile "Can someone bring me out of here? I need to destroy the aura." Bai's work didn't have finished, he had healed Mei but now he needed to destroy the aura without affecting himself. If he achieved it, there wouldn't be any more worry about Myriad and Mei accumulating more as Bai could take it over. If Bai fell under it, let's say that for the beasts it was better him than Lingling, Mei, or Myriad. They would be thankful to have gained a little more time.
Bai found himself being lifted by Di Tian who carried him like a potato sack. Di Tian brought him at a room near the limit of the spirit beasts fortress. If it was here even if Bai fell prey of the aura, it wouldn't be difficult to throw him outside without affecting the plants.
Tian let Bai over the ground. "Good work. Try to survive" Tian said with an arrogant tone, even with it, it was Tian accepting the human in front of him. It wouldn't be like a spirit beast, but he developed some trust towards Bai, excluding him for his hate towards humans.
Bai sat in a lotus position and started meditating. He quickly entered a trance state, entering his own mind space. Bai started fighting against the ants' aura, however he didn't try to overpower it with his Slaughter, devouring. He was trying to isolate it and control it.
Since Bai had discovered Mei's condition, he had thought of this plan. He had too little information about the ants, but he was sure that something terrible was happening to Mayi that she was not in her sanity. If he wanted to heal Mayi, he should be able to destroy what was controlling or at least affecting her, but seeing the power of controlling such a great number of ants, plus all the treasures that she ate, Bai wasn't sure if his Slaughter could overpower what was affecting Mayi, the most probable being that not.
He wanted to treat Mei for healing her and to obtain the refined ants' aura as contrary to the own ants, Mei didn't fuse as one with it, being able to obtain a more concentrated and pure one. Bai's idea was to obtain the aura to learn about its characteristics and if possible find a weakness that would require less strength to face it. This was Bai's second reason to treat Mei.
Of course, trying to completely isolate the aura and control it, it was several levels more difficult and riskier than overpowering with his Slaughter. Bai was under great suffering due to this, but instead of crying a grin appeared in Bai's face. Comparing when the pain of the torso absorption or losing Mayi, this was nothing. If there was a possibility to save Mayi, he would take it. Questions about what would happen after she is safe, like his relationship with Chenxiang, were ignored. The first was saving her.
After 6 torturous hours, Bai opened his eyes, finishing taking control of the aura. Bai opened his left hand, over his palm a purple and black aura like-flame was floating, this was similar to the ants' aura. "Now, what do I have here?"