As they were speaking, a team member responsible for sentry duty hurried over. "Captain, a large number of corpses have been discovered three miles northwest. They look very fresh!"
Lin Taichu immediately rose to his feet. "The sentry group stays behind. Qian Ming, come with me." The two took Corpse Burning Talismans and entrenching shovels, then quickly headed in the direction indicated by the team member.
After passing through a stretch of dense forest, the sight before them made both men's expressions change drastically.
Dozens of demonic beast corpses lay scattered across the clearing. They were still intact, and their blood had not yet fully coagulated. Clearly, they had been dead for no more than three hours.
"These didn't die naturally. Something killed them and deliberately dumped them here."
"The time of death was between two and three hours ago. They're different from the rotting corpses we cleared out."
Qian Ming's face turned grave. "Could remnants of the Blood Demon Sect still be active nearby? But why would they hunt demonic beasts and leave them here?"
Lin Taichu stood up and spread out his divine sense to search the surroundings. He found no trace of Cultivators within its range, but he detected a faint Formation fluctuation in the grass on the eastern side of the clearing.
He pushed aside the grass and found faint reddish Formation lines on the ground, though they had not yet been fully activated.
"It's the beginnings of a Corpse Gathering Formation." Lin Taichu recognized it as an evil cultivator Formation. "This Formation can gather the resentment and blood energy of corpses to nourish some kind of evil creature. They hunted demonic beasts and left them here to set up the Formation with fresh corpses."
He immediately took out a Communication Talisman and reported his discovery