Qing Hong glanced at Tang Ye, and then she lowered her head. She had similar thoughts as well before this, and that was that if she was a disciple of a sect, then her strength would absolutely not be weaker than Tang Ye. But just moments ago, their respective displays within the hopeless situation from before allowed her to understand the distance between the two of them, and it wasn’t just a gap of strength. When he noticed the three of them were slightly dejected, Tang Ye consoled. “I’m not trying to discourage you, and I’m just reminding the three of you. What all of you need to do now is to understand your mistakes and face them courageously, not become dejected as you’re now. In any case, the three of you are only a little over 20 years old, and you still have a chance to enter the First Heaven Realm.” Man’zi laughed bitterly and said, “Without a fortuitous encounter, we’ll probably have no hope to enter the First Heaven Realm for our entire lifetimes.” When he heard this, Tang Ye didn’t say anything because some things couldn’t be changed by a few words from him. Every single person had their own path in life, and they just had to walk properly on their own path. Meanwhile, Qing Hong looked at Tang Ye and asked. “Right, why did those snakes act in that way?” Tang Ye didn’t hesitate to tell them about everything that occurred just now because he was also puzzled about why those snakes would encircle them. When she heard Tang Ye had thrown the Inner Core away, Qing Hong frowned and asked. “You, you placed the Inner Core behind your clothes and not within a spatial ring?” When they heard Qing Hong, Man’zi and Xiao Hei looked at Tang Ye as well. Even though he felt something was wrong, Tang Ye still nodded under their gaze. When they saw Tang Ye nod, the three of them instantly revealed strange expressions. Qing Hong slapped her forehead and rolled her eyes at Tang Ye before she said, “Little Brother, do you know how extremely attractive Inner Cores are to Darkbeasts? Inner Cores of their own kind are capable of allowing them to advance in cultivation. In the beginning, I thought you’d placed the Inner Core into a spatial ring, but I never expected that you placed it behind your clothes.”When he heard this, Tang Ye habitually rubbed his nose and glanced at the three of them before he said in a light voice, “So, in this way, it was I who drew those snakes over?” The three of them nodded forcefully. Tang Ye was slightly embarrassed as it was his own fault in the end. When he thought up to here, Tang Ye hurriedly apologized because no matter what, it was his mistake that caused them to almost be eaten by those snakes. So, he had to apologize. When they heard Tang Ye apologize, the three of them felt slightly embarrassed instead. Even though it was Tang Ye’s mistake, he’d saved their lives in the end. Moreover, it was unintentional this time. So, now that Tang Ye had apologized, the depressed feelings in their hearts had instantly vanished. Once the ill feelings between them were resolved, they started chatting freely once more. This time, the three of them taught Tang Ye about all the experiences they possessed as mercenaries. For example, what he shouldn’t do and what he had to do. Under their guidance, Tang Ye didn’t just obtain great gains, he even felt extremely fortunate to have become companions with them. Tempering himself required battles of life and death and ceaseless breakthroughs while in danger. This was Tang Ye’s original way of thinking, and it wasn’t wrong. However, only now did Tang Ye realize that this matter wasn’t as simple as he’d imagined. To put it in a simpler manner, if one didn’t sprinkle Beast King droppings before resting in the Snake Forest, then even if it was a First Heaven Realm expert that was resting here, the consequences would still be horrible. Because once one entered into battle within the pitch black Snake Forest, the battle would absolutely draw over a swarm of countless snakes. Under such circumstances, even a First Heaven Realm would definitely perish. Moreover, there were numerous methods of survival in the Grand Myriad Mountains, and these methods had been summarized through the lives of countless mercenaries. Tang Ye committed all of these methods to memory in a serious manner because even though he’d come to temper himself, he didn’t want to court death for no reason. It was fine to have a battle with a king of snakes, but if he had to fight a few tens of thousands of snakes, then he wasn’t gaining experience and tempering but courting death instead. After the trouble caused by that swam of snakes, all of them didn’t rest and chatted until daybreak instead. After dawn arrived, all of them made slight preparations before continuing on their way.