"Brother, now's not the time to talk." Da Yajin's terrified face had twisted into a knot.
"Is~ that~ so~? The wind's too loud, I couldn't hear you!" Qin He simply raised his voice, pitching it even higher. His words rode the freezing wind and carried far into the distance.
"Fine, fine, fine, you're amazing, alright?" Da Yajin threw up both hands in surrender. "The Netherflame Beast carries the aura of the place it inhabits. It comes from the depths of the Nether Soil. Through a Netherflame Beast's corpse, you can investigate the conditions deep within the Nether Soil."
"Why are you so concerned about it? Isn't that something the City Lord's Mansion should care about?" Qin He pressed.
"Those lords from the City Lord's Mansion would never risk themselves. They offered a high price—three thousand spirit stones—for a pregnant female beast."
"So money can make even ghosts push millstones."
"Why does it have to be a female? And a pregnant one at that?"
"The Netherflame Beast is a very unusual evil beast. It is an evil thing, but also a living creature. It is one of the few species capable of reproduction, and it travels in and out of the depths of the Nether Soil. The unborn young in a pregnant female's belly are most easily tainted by the aura of the deep Nether Soil and undergo mutations. Through their corpses, one can glimpse the changes in the land of the Nether Soil. That place is the very front line of Sin City's defenses."
"How do you know there's a female beast there?" Qin He pursued the matter to the bitter end.
"Netherflame Beasts come in one male and one female. Normally, they rarely leave. Only when the female is pregnant do the pair go out in search of Blood