After hunting down the two soul beasts, Oscar immediately handed out sausages to everyone.
He kept everyone in peak condition.
After sitting cross-legged and regulating their breathing for a while, Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai recovered to their best condition and began absorbing their third and fourth soul rings respectively.
Lin Like, Zhu Zhuqing, Oscar, and Ning Rongrong stayed to guard them, processing the two soul beasts' corpses in the meantime.
Tang San entered the Heaven-Burning Hippogriff's nest for a preliminary look around.
The cave was not very deep, but its interior was much larger than it appeared from outside, and rather dim.
There were quite a few human bones inside, along with the remains of a Heaven-Burning Griffin and a Lie Yan Horse.
Judging from their remains, the griffin had been ten thousand years old, and the Lie Yan Horse nearly so.
They were probably the Heaven-Burning Hippogriff's parents. Presumably, they had been hunted and, despite escaping, suffered irrecoverable injuries and died.
Now they were reunited.
Although they were man-eating soul beasts, Tang San still admired this love that transcended species and the food chain.
Tang San first gathered the human remains and buried them, erecting an unnamed memorial for them.
Then he took out a fire striker and burned the two soul beasts' remains.
"Hm?"
Once the soul beasts' corpses had burned away, Tang San discovered an opening behind them that seemed to lead underground.
Tang San did not rush to explore it. Instead, he headed outside, intending to wait until Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun finished absorbing their soul rings.
Suddenly, Tang San felt a chill behind him.
With a shift of his Flying Floss Movement Technique, he nimbly moved away from where he stood.
A spray of jade-green venom covered the spot Tang San had just