Chen Changan looked completely at ease, without a hint of pressure. That eased the others' worries considerably.
After bidding farewell to Chen Changan, they chose to retrace their steps and wait for him at the entrance to the underground palace.
"Hongchen, next up, it's a show match between the two of us."
"Now that they're gone, we can really cut loose." Chen Changan said with a smile.
"But don't you think something's strange?"
"If the Du Family's after Promotion Beads, they could just hunt the beasts themselves."
"Why lure other people here to feed these things?"
"Could it be that they think the Promotion Beads from these things are too low-grade, so they want to feed them until they grow stronger and condense mid-grade or even higher-grade Promotion Beads inside them?"
There was no need to question the Du Family's strength. These strange creatures were no threat to Chen Changan, and probably weren't to the Du Family either.
If the Du Family had been here all along, then over the years, they should have hunted quite a few of these creatures. They might even have been able to wipe them all out.
Yet that hadn't happened. So perhaps they really were raising them.
Hongchen's guess might well be right: they wanted to raise stronger creatures and obtain higher-grade Promotion Beads from them.
But from the time Yun Xiao died until now, Chen Changan had heard Yun Muchen and the others say that hundreds of years had passed.
After all these years, had they only just thought of this method?
Then what had they been doing for the past few centuries?
With these questions in mind, Chen Changan continued deeper into the area. With no one from the five clans to look after, he killed much faster and far more efficiently.