Keep It Up

"But these Demonic Cores won't be easy to collect!"

The Tianbi Sect elder said.

The others nodded one after another upon hearing this.

Indeed, this was not just one or two cores that they could gather and leave with.

Even with their formidable strength, they still could not simply ignore the black mist.

Without any protection or preparation, none of them dared enter the black mist alone.

"Everyone, I think we should handle the important matter first," one elder said. "We can leave these Demonic Cores here for now. They're inside the black mist anyway, so no one will come take them. We can collect them after we finish our business."

After obtaining everyone's agreement, the spirit vessel continued slowly toward the depths of the black mist.

What they never expected was that they had barely traveled any farther when they saw another small mountain piled from Demonic Beast corpses.

"What in the world is going on?"

Everyone aboard the spirit vessel was thoroughly shaken.

Based on what they knew and understood about Demonic Beasts, this was something that had never happened before.

The black mist was the Demonic Beasts' main stronghold. Nothing could possibly threaten them there, much less cause deaths in swathes like this.

Another fire went down, and densely packed Demonic Cores appeared.

"Everyone, have you noticed? Each pile of corpses is all one kind of Demonic Beast. One species per pile. Then could the other species also..." an elder said.

The elder's words reminded everyone.

They quickly piloted the spirit vessel deeper inside.

However.

Just as the spirit vessel swept across the sky, they saw a figure hopping about below, holding a torch in one hand and a shovel in the other as she dug through the soil.

At that very moment, Ling Yunzhang, the elder