Damien decided to leave first as Valentina wanted to stay behind and focus on cultivating as she said it was time for her to absorb the ethereal cores of the beasts she had hunted down.
By now, she had accumulated a lot of ethereal cores for a consecutive breakthrough as all this time she had been stabilizing her present cultivation on Damien's advice.
Damien made sure to put on a new set of clothes as he came out of the cultivation room. Even though Valentina had chosen the cultivation room in a secluded spot that only the elite disciples had the privilege to use, there were still some elite disciples going in and out.
So when they saw Damien coming out of the cultivation room where Valentina was sitting, the men could only look at him enviously, wondering if this guy was a holy saint in his past life to be blessed with such fortune.