Ouyang Ling's New Research Breakthrough!

The Rat Clan is arguably the most chaotic among all the Demon Races.

Because of the Rat Clan large numbers, the Rat Clan split into countless smaller groups.

The Rat Clan currently in the Demonic Sect is a branch of the Rat Clan Thief Rat Clan.

The Thief Rat Clan is notorious even among the Demon Race.

They are even described as being as shameless as the Snake Clan... This gives you an idea of just how shameless the Thief Rat Clan is.

The Thief Rat Clan is skilled in the art of theft; they learn various methods of infiltration and stealing from a young age.

The Thief Rat Clan is almost universally hated and nearly wiped out by the Demon Race after multiple purges. However, a small number of Rat Thieves still lurk in various places, committing crimes.

The Yuan Ying happened to discover the thieving rat and subdued it.

To Yuan Ying's surprise, this Rat Thief was actually a descendant of the former Thief Rat Clan Chief, and he even possessed the Thief Rat Clan's divine artifact Gate of Stealing Shadows!

This Gate of Stealing Shadows possesses the ability to traverse space and time, allowing a portal to be erected at a specific location. Most importantly, the portal erected by the Gate of Stealing Shadows is undetectable; even the most powerful formations cannot Gate of Stealing Shadows.

The rat thief didn't hide anything and directly revealed his plan.

Although the Demonic Sect is poor, the Vast Heaven Sect is wealthy!

By using the Gate of Stealing Shadows, the other end of the teleportation portal can be opened in the Vast Heaven Sect's treasury.

Then the thieving rat could manipulate the Gate of Stealing Shadows and empty the Vast Heaven Sect's treasure vault!

Hearing what the rat thief said, both Wu Xingyun and Tantai Jing burst into tears!

Don't let this thieving little rat fool you; you'd never guess it possesses such a treasure and such terrifying power!

With this Gate of Stealing Shadows, our resource problem was solved on the spot.

Moreover, not only did we solve the resource problem, we were also able to continuously steal various spirit stone resources from the Vast Heaven Sect's treasury.

In this way, we can also indirectly weaken the Vast Heaven Sect... We, the Demonic Sect, have the perfect combination of timing, location, and popular support!

May the heavens bless my Demonic Sect!

As long as we keep stealing resources from the Vast Heaven Sect, and then use those resources, along with the Vast Heaven Sect Yuan Ying and our control over the Ghost Souls, we can weaken the Vast Heaven Sect while strengthening the Demonic Sect... There's no way we can lose this round!

Overjoyed, Wu Xingyun immediately hosted a banquet to entertain Yuan Ying and the Rat Thief.

After a hearty meal, the thief rat didn't waste any time. Taking advantage of the dark night, he activated the Gate of Stealing Shadows.

Suddenly, a round portal appeared in front of the thief rat. As the portal opened, a faint light flew out from the Demonic Sect and headed towards the Haotian Mountain Range.

The glimmer of light traveled all the way into the Haotian Mountain Range. As expected of the Thief Rat Clan's strongest artifact, even the Little Bear King's Divine Sense could not detect it.

The faint light broke through the Bear Clan's blockade and arrived outside the Vast Heaven Sect's protective array. Even the Vast Heaven Sect's protective array could not stop the Thief Rat's Gate of Stealing Shadows.

The light from the Gate of Stealing Shadows flew all the way to the outermost treasure vault of the Vast Heaven Sect and finally stopped.

This is already the core area of the Vast Heaven Sect, and even the thieving rats dare not go too deep. Therefore, the thieving rats chose a treasure vault that is closest to the outermost area.

The glimmer of light flew into the treasure vault. The thieving rat manipulated the Gate of Stealing Shadows, and after confirming that no one in the treasure vault had discovered the Gate of Stealing Shadows, the glimmer of light bloomed.

A portal to the other end was set up in the center of the treasure vault.

The moment the portal took shape, the Thief Rat darted directly into it from the Demonic Sect side. With a barely perceptible teleportation light, the Thief Rat appeared in the Vast Heaven Sect's treasury.

Upon entering the treasure vault, even the notorious thief rat, who had stolen countless treasures, was astonished by the Vast Heaven Sect's treasure!

There are colorful spirit stones everywhere...

And these aren't ordinary spirit stones; they're all colored spirit stones!

This is insane!

At this moment, all the thief could do was marvel at how incredibly wealthy the Vast Heaven Sect was!

This is just the outermost treasure vault among the countless treasure vaults of the Vast Heaven Sect, and even this outermost vault contains so many spirit stones...

This is unheard of!

But in his excitement, the thief rat also knew what he was there to do... He immediately activated his secret technique, and in an instant, a small vortex appeared with the portal as the base.

The moment the vortex appeared, all the colorful spirit stones around were attracted to it, and countless spirit stones turned into a river of spirit stones that flew towards the thieving rat's teleportation portal.

Meanwhile, on the other side, within the Demonic Sect's portal... countless spirit stones were pouring out with a crackling sound!

This scene completely stunned Wu Xingyun and the others!

Even Yuan Ying was completely dumbfounded by the countless spirit stones, because even he, a member of the Ape Clan, had never seen so many spirit stones before!

It's out!

This Wu Xingyun player is just... amazing!

A thieving rat has struck... and our Demonic Sect is wreaking havoc!

The theft continued until nearly dawn before the thieving rats finally emptied one of the treasure vaults of the Vast Heaven Sect...

The moment the theft was completed, the thieving rat darted into the portal and disappeared... and the portal vanished as well, as if nothing had ever happened.

But moments after the thieving rats emptied the treasure vault, the vault door was pushed open.

Feng Fei, who got up early in the morning, clearly had a grumpy face.

Junior Brother Xinghe, my Junior Brother Xinghe... you're really causing me trouble...

Since you came back, all sorts of resources have been pouring into the sect... Now, the sheer volume of Blood Spirit Stones is giving me a real headache... Do you know how many treasure vaults our sect will have to build just because of your Blood Spirit Stones?

This is so hard for me, senior!

Just as Feng Fei was lamenting how difficult things were for him, Feng Fei was stunned by what he saw before him!

At this very moment, all the spirit stones in the treasure vault before them have vanished without a trace?

Upon seeing the empty treasure vault, Feng Fei was greatly shocked!

What surprised Feng Fei was not the disappearance of the treasures in the vault, but that the spirit stones in this vault were different from those in other vaults!

The spirit stones in this treasure trove were returned from the Artifact Refining Palace.

Normally, you wouldn't get your spirit stones back even if you threw swill into the Artifact Refining Palace.

The main reason it was returned this time is because of Junior Sister Ouyang... I heard that Junior Sister Ouyang has recently made new progress in her research on medicinal powder.

Junior Sister Ouyang has recently started researching her medicinal powder on spirit stones... and all the spirit stones contaminated by Junior Sister Ouyang's medicinal powder not only become colorful, but also inherit the effects of Junior Sister Ouyang's medicinal powder, and can even become stronger under the enhancement of the spirit stones!

Good heavens! I heard a couple of days ago that Senior Brother An Lan accidentally picked up the wrong spirit stone and absorbed some of the spirit stones that Junior Sister Ouyang had drugged... He died more than eight hundred times before the effects were completely eliminated.

Upon learning of this matter, Ouyang Ming, as the head of the Ouyang Lineage, immediately returned all the spirit stones that his sister had drugged and handed them over to Feng Fei for disposal, in order to prevent others from being harmed.

Ouyang Ming was also sweating bullets because of his sister. Luckily, last time it was only his senior brother An Lan from the Dark Moon Palace who was tricked. If she had tricked his fellow disciples from other palaces, how could the Ouyang Lineage have survived?

Therefore, Ouyang Ming has given Ouyang Ling a stern warning: if you dare to lay a hand on spirit stones again, I will tell Senior Brother Xinghe that you like Ma Liang!

Upon hearing this warning, Ouyang Ling turned pale with fright and immediately said, "Brother... I was wrong... I swear to God I will never do anything reckless again!"

As it turned out, Ouyang Ming understood his sister. After Ouyang Ming's threat, Ouyang Ling indeed dared not touch the spirit stones again.

However, the spirit stones that Ouyang Ling had previously targeted still need to be dealt with.

Therefore, the Artifact Refining Palace returned these spirit stones in batches and handed them over to Feng Fei to dispose of in batches.

The previous batches have all been dealt with, and no fellow disciples were harmed. Originally, the spirit stones in this treasure vault were supposed to be cleared out every two days.

However, because the Fox Clan suddenly sent a large amount of Blood Spirit Stones, Feng Fei spent his days supervising the construction of the treasure vault, which delayed things here.

Having finally managed to free up some time today, Feng Fei immediately came to deal with this batch of dangerous spirit stones!

But to everyone's surprise, all the spirit stones here have vanished.

Feng Fei was so scared that his pants got wet!

Who is this person?! So incredibly brave and unparalleled!

These spirit stones are absolutely unusable! You won't even know how you died after using them.

Quick! Everyone, investigate! Find out which palace used these spirit stones! Recover them immediately!

We can't afford to delay!

Feng Fei's fellow disciples worked at full capacity, investigating everything they could.

But the result left everyone stunned.

I've searched every palace... and not a single one has touched these spirit stones.

Furthermore, each palace declared, "We're not stupid. Those colorful spirit stones are terrifying to look at. Who would be foolish enough to take that stuff?"

Feng Fei then checked even the outer gate, but still nothing...

Finally, they even inquired with the Bear King... but received no response...

Feng Fei was dumbfounded... What on earth was going on?

Where did all those spirit stones go?

However, the investigation eventually came to an end, and the disappearance of the spirit stone became an unsolved case. Feng Fei searched the entire Vast Heaven Sect but could not find it, so he had no choice but to give up for the time being.

Looking at the Demonic Sect countless colorful spirit stones, Wu Xingyun was so excited that his eyes welled up with tears!

Look at these spirit stones, they're so beautiful with their colorful patterns!

The Thief Rat truly lives up to its name! With the help of its Gate of Stealing Shadows, we emptied an entire treasure vault of the Vast Heaven Sect without a word, and we even got so many colorful spirit stones! We're rich!

While Wu Xingyun was excited, he was also puzzled as to why these spirit stones looked so strange.

Is this some new flavor of spirit stone?

Before Wu Xingyun could say anything more, the thieving rat ate over three hundred spirit stones on the spot...

Looking at the greedy-looking thieving rat, Wu Xingyun said disdainfully, "Aren't you afraid of bursting from eating so many spirit stones!"

But the instant Wu Xingyun finished speaking, there was a loud bang... the thieving rat... exploded!

Wu Xingyun: "???"

Yuan Ying: "???"

Tantai Jing: "???"

Wu Xingyun stared blankly at the annihilated rats.

Yuan Ying and Tantai Jing were both completely bewildered as they looked at Wu Xingyun...