Demonic Beast Mountain Range

As she watched the young man standing on the arena with a saber in hand, a strange glint flashed through the eyes of the Second Miss of the Mo Clan, Mo Linglin. She tugged at her father's sleeve and said coquettishly, "Father, why not let that Mo Tang be my personal guard? I find him quite pleasing to the eye."

Mo Li, standing behind them, immediately darkened.

He had only just been appointed by the clan head as the Second Miss's personal guard, yet his strength as a six-star Dou Master was being looked down on...

Damn it! Isn't he just a little younger than me?

It's not like she's picking a son-in-law. Does she really have to judge him by his face?

Mo Li thought maliciously...

Mo Lan, the head of the Mo Clan, rolled his eyes helplessly at his daughter's coquettish pleading before patiently persuading her, "Although this Mo Tang is fairly capable, his cultivation is still too low.

He has not even reached the Dou Shi realm. How could he protect your safety? Let Mo Li accompany you instead. That way, your mother and I can rest easier..."

Hearing her father's objection, Mo Linglin could only pout in dissatisfaction.

But Mo Lan would not compromise on this matter.

Although he also thought highly of Mo Tang's future, all signs indicated that Mo Tang had already become one of the Great Elder's men.

The Mo Clan was not as openly hostile as the Xiao Clan, where the clan head and elders were at each other's throats. However, because Mo Cheng's words carried absolute weight within the Mo Clan, Mo Lan, as clan head, often found himself deeply displeased.

Thus, both sides kept their distance from the subordinates each had gathered, lest conflict arise.

This could be considered a certain tacit understanding between them...

After Mo Tang displayed his strength before everyone, his position as Deputy Commander naturally became a foregone conclusion.

No one dared make any snide remarks behind his back anymore.

Mo Tang's displayed strength had truly won over the vast majority of them.

Even those few who were secretly jealous did not dare reveal it in front of others.

They did not want Mo Tang to settle scores with them after he grew stronger...

People were simply like that, so even if Mo Tang knew about it, he would not care.

However, after becoming the Deputy Commander of the Guard Squad, his benefits improved once again. Not only did his Recovery Pill and Qi Replenishing Pills increase from one each to two each, but the three stalks of Dark Wind Grass were replaced with one Yilan Fragrance. On top of that, he received a monthly salary of 500 Gold Coins. It was truly a bountiful haul.

However, the stronger one became, the more difficult their missions would be.

Previously, although Mo Tang had been a Guard Squad captain, the Trade Caravans he escorted mostly traveled to cities within several hundred li of Rock City. With the Mo Clan's reputation in the Eastern Province, there had been little danger.

But now that he was Deputy Commander, Mo Tang would have to accompany the clan's strong individuals to purchase medicinal herbs near the more distant Demonic Beast Mountain Range. This left him feeling somewhat uneasy.

As the largest mountain range in the Jia Ma Empire, the Demonic Beast Mountain Range was home to countless powerful Demonic Beasts, as well as innumerable rare medicinal herbs and cultivation resources. It had always been a gathering place for forces from across the Jia Ma Empire.

As an overlord-level force in the Eastern Province, the Mo Clan naturally had its own base near the Demonic Beast Mountain Range.

Moreover, because Salt City was simply too far from the Demonic Beast Mountain Range, the Trade Caravans traveled aboard flying birds specially tamed by the clan.

This was far better than Dou Qi Transforms into a Horse!

Riding the flying bird known as the Thick-Winged Bird, Mo Tang flew for more than half a month before finally seeing a green line stretching across the distant horizon...

"We're finally here."

Mo Tang sighed.

The past dozen or so days had been unbearably dull, leaving him no choice but to hide in his room and cultivate Dou Qi.

But with the Original Body's talent, after cultivating for more than ten days, there was practically no visible improvement... The feeling nearly drove Mo Tang to despair.

Yet in order to preserve his reputation as a hardworking genius, he had no choice but to keep doing it, which made him feel even worse.

After finally arriving at the Mo Clan's base in the Demonic Beast Mountain Range, Mo Tang heaved a sigh of relief. The next few days should be much easier.

Moreover, the Demonic Beast Mountain Range possessed countless resources. Whether medicinal herbs or Magic Cores, they were inexhaustible.

Mo Tang planned to gather some information first, then see whether he could find an opportunity to take a trip into the Demonic Beast Mountain Range...

Even if he could only wander around its outskirts, he would surely gain far more than he had in the Cloud Peak Mountain Range outside Salt City, right?

And with his current combat strength, ordinary first- and second-tier Demonic Beasts posed no threat to him at all. He was definitely going in this time.

Since it would still take a long while for medicinal herbs from the surrounding regions to be gathered here, Mo Tang and the others had quite a bit of free time ahead of them.

Quite a few members of the Guard Squad shared Mo Tang's thoughts and planned to try their luck in the Demonic Beast Mountain Range as well.

If they gained anything, it would be their own income.

Although the Da Dou Shi-level strong individual sent by the clan knew about this, he merely turned a blind eye. As long as they did not delay the escort mission, he would not interfere.

There was no helping it. These guards needed to cultivate too, and the small amount of cultivation resources they received from the clan each month was simply not enough.

Not everyone was alone in the world like Mo Tang!

During the first three days after arriving, Mo Tang did not hurriedly set out with companions like the others. Instead, he first wandered around the small town and asked whether anything interesting had happened nearby.

From such matters, he could also obtain some useful information...

For example, he had just heard from an inn waiter that someone had once discovered a Wind Ghost Ravine northwest of the Demonic Beast Mountain Range...

It was said that fierce winds blew through that ravine at every moment. Whenever the winds swept into caves in certain cliff faces, they produced sounds like the wailing of vicious ghosts, which was extremely frightening. That was how it came to be called Wind Ghost Ravine.

Some even claimed that within certain caves of Wind Ghost Ravine, long-term erosion by the fierce winds had caused an extremely rare Wind Attribute spiritual fruit to grow. It was the main ingredient for refining the Fifth Grade Pill known as the Wind Spirit Pill!

Others said that beneath Wind Ghost Ravine lay Ruins left behind by ancient strong individuals, and that anyone who found them could obtain an ancient inheritance...

These rumors had once caused a great stir and drawn many people to search for them.

However, many of those people returned empty-handed, and gradually no one believed the rumors anymore.

Many people might have merely treated these words as an interesting story and paid them no mind. After all, if all of it were true, and the news had spread so widely through the town, someone should have discovered something long ago.

Yet according to the inn waiter, no one had found any so-called Wind Spirit Fruit within those wind caves among the cliffs...

So everyone merely regarded it as a story.

But after hearing it, Mo Tang immediately had other thoughts... Damn, this is practically a fortuitous encounter prepared specifically for the Protagonist!

Therefore, he planned to make the trip himself and take a look!