"Beasts?"
"You're sure the beasts are attacking?"
"I haven't sensed any beastly presence."
"Where did this news come from?" the Sky-Holding Clan patriarch asked with a frown.
"The Night Spirit Race sent word."
"The beasts haven't appeared near our Sky-Holding Clan. They've launched attacks on other races instead."
"And... there are quite a lot of them!"
Quite a lot?
Hearing this, the Sky-Holding Clan patriarch was also taken aback.
"Why have the beasts acted so suddenly this time?"
"Could it be..."
At this thought, the Sky-Holding Clan patriarch looked toward Chen Changan and the others. Could the beasts' change have something to do with them?
"Don't look at me like that. We didn't go out of our way to provoke the beasts."
"That's not what I mean. Could your arrival have made the beasts feel threatened? Is that why they decided to strike first?"
Strike first?
"I don't think there's any point in worrying about that right now."
"Since the beasts have already made their move, the most urgent thing is to help the other races escape danger."
"How about this: you take the Sky-Holding Clan to help those races, and I'll go to the beasts' lair."
Hearing Chen Changan's suggestion, the Sky-Holding Clan patriarch nodded in agreement.
"Good. Then we'll split up."
"By the way, keep the beasts' corpses. I have a use for them."
"The corpses?"
"All right. I'll do my best."
After speaking, the Sky-Holding Clan patriarch began gathering his people, preparing to go to the rescue.
"Chen Tian, you few, go with the Sky-Holding Clan."
"There's no need for you to come to the beasts' lair."
"You can help over there and reduce the losses."
Chen Tian and the others nodded. They hadn't planned on going with Chen Changan in the first place.
"I'll stay too."