Behind the mountain, night deepened.
"Argh!"
Ye Chenyang sent a middle-aged man with a rather upright appearance sprawling, then calmly sheathed his blade.
Jiang Mian merely glanced at the corpse beside her before orange-gold flames sprang to life.
After a round of "cleansing," with Ye Chenyang doing the fighting and Jiang Mian collecting the bodies, they had taken out nearly ten "moles."
Every one of them was a sixth-tier.
The old Jiang Mian could never have handled such a large haul.
But now she had her main body, the Golden Crow, and five cores sharing the load, so her capacity had grown considerably.
Even [Heaven's Punishment] could absorb some of the scraps.
After being fed this much, all four of Jiang Mian's new cores had reached the fourth tier.
Among them, the Wind Element core, which had been born first, and the Fire Element core, which had gotten the biggest share, were already close to the peak.
Once she fully digested today's gains, she could probably touch the threshold of the fifth tier. Her progress had leaped forward.
As expected, nothing beats a good feast.
Jiang Mian sighed inwardly. She hadn't often had the chance to get her hands on so many sixth-tiers before.
Then she turned to Ye Chenyang.
"Brother Ye, we've pretty much dealt with everything that needed handling, right?"
Ye Chenyang nodded.
"Mm. We've taken care of everyone on the list. The others will clean up the remaining small fry."
After speaking, he looked up, gazing thoughtfully in the direction the man had been trying to flee.
Following the ridgeline in that direction led straight to the gathering place of the Aberrants.
"Mian Mian, did anything happen there before the Golden Crow came back?"
"The Underground City?"
Jiang Mian had naturally noticed Ye Chenyang's subtle gesture.
She