Shi Feiyang returned from the Sky-Hanging Palace to the seabed and summoned his Aquatic Beings followers, only to find that quite a few were missing. Most notably, Bai Lingzi, the serpent Monster from Green City, was nowhere to be seen. Only after asking did he learn that much had happened during his seclusion.
Geng Kun needed to collect venom to refine a magical treasure, so he summoned every Monster that used poison and ordered them to surrender their inner cores. Anyone who resisted was killed on the spot!
Bai Lingzi could not bear to part with his inner core and tried to argue his case. He had barely spoken two sentences before Geng Kun blasted him into several pieces with feather arrows, forcibly seized his inner core, and even cut out his gallbladder and ate it as a snack.
The remaining Monsters had no choice but to surrender their inner cores to preserve their lives.
In fact, Geng Kun had done this many times before. But his lifespan was long, and each occurrence was usually separated by twenty or thirty years. The Monsters also suffered heavy losses, with old members constantly dying and new ones joining, so most knew little about it.
Most of the Monsters who had been there a long time gloated at the sight. Those who had joined over the past twenty-odd years, however, felt the fox's grief at the rabbit's death. Panic spread among them, and quite a few slipped away in secret.
Shi Feiyang sighed inwardly. At last, he understood what Geng Peng had meant before his death when he said Geng Kun treated his disciples coldly. So he was raising his disciples like pigs, ready to slaughter them whenever he needed something!
He had originally felt that Geng Kun treated him reasonably well, and