At first, it was just like yesterday. They encountered plenty of fleeing Spirit Beasts along the way, but the closer they got to the Spirit Beast Mountains, the fewer living beasts they saw. In their place, the number of corpses steadily grew.
The farther they went, the more Spirit Beast corpses littered the road, and the heavier the smell of blood became.
"Why have so many Spirit Beasts died?" A Ling asked fearfully.
A Yin's face was pale. "We're still some distance from the Spirit Beast Mountains. There shouldn't be this many corpses here. Could some high-grade Spirit Beasts have killed the ones blocking their escape?"
"Unlikely," Lin Feng said quietly. "The higher a Spirit Beast's grade, the more humanlike its thinking becomes. They wouldn't bother attacking weak beasts."
"If it wasn't high-grade Spirit Beasts, could it have been that creature causing trouble in the mountains these past few months?" A Yin asked. "I heard it attacks indiscriminately, no matter how strong its opponents are."
Lin Feng glanced at A Yin and rejected her guess without hesitation. "If that creature did this, these Spirit Beasts would have no reason to keep running. Whoever killed these low-grade beasts wasn't a high-grade Spirit Beast or the creature slaughtering everything in the mountains. If I'm right, people did this."
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Lin Feng's analysis stunned A Ling and A Yin.
People had done this?
But who would kill so many low-grade Spirit Beasts?
Were they after their pelts, bones, or teeth?
Yet the corpses were intact. Nothing seemed to be missing.
Kaku picked up a Spirit Beast no longer than half an arm and examined it briefly. Something occurred to him. He checked several other corpses, then quickly reached a conclusion.
"The blood," Kaku said. "Haven't you noticed? So many Spirit