814: Chapter 114: 500 Divine-level Beast Souls 814: Chapter 114: 500 Divine-level Beast Souls Chapter 114
“Understood, Great Elder.
We will be careful!” several Elders said in succession.
“Very well, then set out now and return before nightfall!” the Great Elder instructed.
“Wait, Elders, wear these on your way; it will be more convenient!” Second Elder suddenly spoke, then took out seven masks from his ring and handed them to the seven Elders.
“That’s right, with the masks on, things will be easier for you!” Third Elder agreed.
The seven took the masks from Second Elder, put them on, and then turned to leave the tent…
“I don’t know why, all of a sudden, so many families have come to the Demon Forest!” the Great Elder mumbled with a frown.
“I think it might be because the Vice Sect Master discovered the snowfield, and others have as well—moreover, the news has been spread!” Third Elder speculated.
“That’s very possible.
Now we can only wait for their return to know for sure.
Let’s hope it isn’t as we fear,” the Great Elder sighed.
The Great Elder knew what they were searching for and what it was that others did not.
Before departing, the Vice Alliance leader had summoned him, informing him of a huge, top-grade Ice Attribute Dark Stone Vein hidden within the snowfield…
At the time, he too was ecstatic!
That was an attribute-bearing Dark Stone Vein, and not just any, but top-grade!
Even if there weren’t many in the Divine Doctor Sect who practiced ice attribute cultivation, just mining and selling it would be an immense fortune—a sum enough to cover expenditures of the Divine Doctor Sect for decades…
For this reason, the Divine Doctor Sect was determined to obtain the top-grade Ice Attribute Dark Stone Vein within the snowfield surrounded by the Demon Forest.
Otherwise, they wouldn’t have gathered thousands under the guise of recruiting disciples to search for it…
And ever since gaining its perilous reputation, the Demon Forest hadn’t been this lively in thousands of years!
The Great Elder and the others from the Divine Doctor Sect guessed correctly!
Initially, when Vice Alliance leader, Doctor Luo of the Divine Doctor Sect, unintentionally entered the Barrier, three other people also happened to touch the Barrier around the snowfield during their training in the Demon Forest and inadvertently entered…
They just entered at different locations…
The Vice Sect Master of the Divine Doctor Sect was very fortunate.
He landed right at the entrance of the Dark Stone Vein.
He tried to mine it but without a solution, and unable to contact the outside world, he grew worried…
Partly because he practiced cultivation with fire, wood, and gold attributes of dark energy, lacking ice and water attributes, the tempting Mineral Vein would be useless to him if he couldn’t leave…
Therefore, when he found his Sound Transmission Stone to be unworkable, his first thought was to find a way out!
So, during his search for an exit, he encountered Xue Jing and his wife in labor…
He later appeared and saved Xue Jing and the newly born Xue Ying!
And the reason he poisoned Xue Jing and Xue Ying was also justifiable…
At the time, his Master was concocting a certain Divine Pill; he had come to the Demon Forest specifically to assist his Master in gathering medicinal materials, which led to his unintended foray into the snowfield…
And among the medicinal materials required for his Master to create the Divine Pill was one in particular: 500 Divine-level Beast Souls…
Before he came to the Demon Forest, his Master had given him that poison, instructing him to gain the trust of any Divine Beast Clan he might encounter and then poison the Clan, returning a hundred years later to harvest the Beast Souls…
So, upon first recognizing Xue Jing as the Snow Wolf King, he was tempted!
Immediately, he administered the supplement of the poison into Xue Ying’s body…