After two days,
Yang Zhai stood up and sighed, he shook his head and said,
"Elder Jin, who did you offend?" He asked.
He ended up acquiring a total of 17 dead gorillas and lost around twelve thousand hounds.
After six days, today, they were surrounded by another group of vulpias. He wasn't interested in knowing who they had offended, but it was obvious that this was all a trap.
"Anyway, Elder Jin, don't you think I have lost too many hounds…" Yang Zhai said slowly.
"Don't worry, we will compensate you for everything," Hae Jin understood what Yang Zhai was indicating.
When dealing with experts, just subtle indications were sufficient.
Ever since Yang Zhai defended against the first group of vulpias, his status in this qafila had become the same as Elder Jin's. He didn't make him do the chores of this qafila anymore. Nobody questioned him anymore. He always kept the Shadow Leopard and the Water Hound on his left and right side.
They now knew that he was not a rank 4 ordinary Mastery Path cultivator.
The cultivators defended him while he activated the inheritance gate and summoned the hounds.
At night,
"Sister, do you think he only has fifty thousand hounds as he mentioned?" Han Wen asked Yue Qing.
"How would I know? I can't even see him, let alone an army that is behind a gate." Yue Qing answered.
"But, why do I feel like he is holding something great behind that gate…" Han Wen spoke slowly.
"Do you think fifty thousand hounds are nothing? Mastery Path cultivator barely manages to control one mere beast of the same rank, not to mention a higher rank beast…"
"Even controlling two to ten is considered a talent at his age, but he is in control of fifty thousand hounds, and even a rank 5 beast. To add to that, he also has a Shadow Leopard."
Yue Qing said.
"Anyway, is this the reason you let him join our qafila?" Han Wen was curious.
After all, Yue Qing was the one who ordered Has Jin to let Yang Zhai join their qafila.
"No, I didn't know about that, but it has something to do with something else…"
Meanwhile,
"What's happening? It's been eight days already, but I am unable to heal the toll on my left arm…"
Yang Zhai was trying to remove the toll he had accumulated about eight days ago, but it wasn't disappearing for some reason.
"Even the Damnation Snake isn't disappearing…"
The snake was still on Yang Zhai's arm. It was the same as when it was summoned.
"Could it be related to when the Aurora had affected my arms when I was practicing on the Brown Dacite? I can't think of any other reason besides that," Yang Zhai suddenly remembered it.
When he was hitting the Brown Dacite, the Aurora had become restless for a while, and when he was cultivating later and absorbing the kas, Aurora's aura was being released.
"No, that's not good. Does it mean that it ended up having a negative effect on me? No, that's not possible, if it was, it would have also affected me when I used the techniques the other times. Why was it that it only affected me when I used the Damnation Snake that affected my whole arm? Also, I am not someone who would let something dangerous stay inside my body,"
"Whatever, I need to be more careful from now on when I use the techniques. After all, they will be taking more toll on me from now on. In the future, if it ends up hindering me, I will have no choice left but to get rid of my left arm,"
Yang Zhai stopped circulating the purified rays throughout his body, there was no benefit in doing that anymore.
Right now, his whole left arm was black with purplish marks on it. There were black vein-like marks on his left shoulder as well as his left side of the neck.
Yang Zhai could absorb the Damnation Snake in his left arm as well as summon it without activating the Damnation Snake technique. As such, it was beneficial to him in this regard. Even though his usage of techniques was limited now, he could at least use them freely.
Just like that, after one week, they finally managed to exit the Region of Vulpia. In the previous week, they encountered no vulpia group anymore.
Even though they had been attacked three times, Yang Zhai still traveled with them instead of traveling alone. He couldn't travel alone or with an army. He couldn't return and had to continue forward.
He only had one option left, and that was to accompany them no matter how many times they were attacked on the way.
Luckily, it was only three times: Yang Zhai sighed.
He had lost around twenty thousand hounds and acquired twenty-five corpses of the rank 5 gorillas.
"Tzu Yu, what do you say? Do wanna accompany us to the Eroh Domain?" Hae Jin asked.
"No… Elder Jin, as I mentioned yesterday, from here on out, we will go our separate ways. You are clearly being targeted here," Yang Zhai rejected him up front without even hesitating.
I don't know how many more times these people would be attacked; I can't accompany them. Someone is powerful enough to even influence the region of vulpias, and put three groups of thousands of vulpias to work for them, the one targeting them is definitely not ordinary: Yang Zhai reflected.
"I understand very well; we won't force you. Even though it's a pity that you won't be accompanying us, what can we do? I hope to see you in the Eroh Domain," Hae Jin shook his head and didn't argue.
"As for my compensation, I hope you won't disappoint me," Yang Zhai said.
He didn't even hesitate; I see that he doesn't care what others think about him, Hae Jin thought after seeing Yang Zhai's straightforwardness.
"How about this: we will give you the token of the Eroh Domain. You can obtain whatever you want—no matter how much essence cost for that—with this token."
Hae Jin grabbed a token from Xiu Lan and came to Yang Zhai.
Yang Zhai looked at this for a while and said,
"No need, just give me a hundred thousand mid-grade essence stones; that should do it."
"What?" Hae Jin was shocked.
"You are from the Eroh Domain, I am sure a hundred thousand mid-grade essence stones is nothing to you,"
What can I buy with that token? A thing of higher rank that I can't even use? Or a thing of lower rank that will become useless eventually?: this came to his mind.
Eroh Domain was quite large, it could buy hundreds of Bai clans without even sweating. Even many of the Luo Sects. As for how many, he wasn't sure. After all, the Luo Sect might have a mountain or a mine of essence stones.
Even though it wasn't a small number, it wasn't much for the Eroh Domain.
"Sigh, fine, your loss wasn't small either. But this token could even help you obtain a thing worth ten times the number of essence stones you're asking for. Whatever, here,"
Hae Jin handed a hundred thousand mid-grade essence stones to Yang Zhai.
Yang Zhai stored the essence stones and left without much delay. He took the shiq with him instead of returning it back to the Eroh Domain qafila.
"For real, how shameless can a person be… He didn't even ask us and left with our shiq like it was his," a cultivator muttered.
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