It had been half a day since they’d left the treacherous region of Nanwa Snow Mountain behind.0

Only now were the cultivators from Dahe Market beginning to settle down, the fear that had gripped them slowly ebbing away. The aftermath of what they’d experienced still lingered in their expressions, but at least the worst seemed to be over.0

Aboard the Luo Tian Society's ship, Wang Yuan quietly entered Luo Chen’s cabin.0

"You really have some guts!0

"Throwing out that many top-grade Jade Essence pills at once, that was worth tens of thousands of spirit stones!"0

“Tsk tsk, you should’ve seen the faces of those rogue cultivators on the rear ships,” Luo Chen said with a grin. “They were completely dumbfounded, eyes wide as saucers.”0

By now, the spirit power Luo Chen had expended had nearly fully recovered. For cultivators who had reached the Foundation Establishment Realm, as long as they didn’t release too much energy in a single burst, recovery came naturally and quickly. This ability stemmed from the spirit energy cloud formed during the ninth stage of Qi-Refining, and once a cultivator broke through to Foundation Establishment, the efficiency of recovery doubled.0

On top of that, the automatic energy restoration from his Medicine King Codex of Yimu made the effect several times stronger than that of an average Foundation Establishment cultivator.0

"I had to do it at the time.0

"The Li and Nangong families lost a great number of domesticated spirit beasts, and Wang Haichao paid a hefty amount of spirit stones. I had to give up something too, otherwise, they’d feel the exchange was unfair."3

Wang Yuan nodded.0

Luo Chen always thought more thoroughly than he did in matters like this. Still, he didn’t quite understand, wasn’t Luo Chen acting a bit too kind-hearted and selfless in that situation? If it were him, he wouldn’t have spared a second thought for the lives of those rogue cultivators.0

Perhaps sensing Wang Yuan’s unspoken doubts, Luo Chen said lightly, "The biggest problem when arriving...0