"Oh? Then taking you lot is negotiable too?"
Zeng Tian still wore that same beaming smile, but in the eyes of the aromatic silk beauty, he looked like a big bad wolf intent on bullying her, a little Red Riding Hood.
"No!"
At his words, the aromatic silk beauty immediately refused, saying firmly, "Only those destined to come here may take medicinal herbs from us, and even then, they can only take seven. Those are the rules that lord laid down."
"And you..." The aromatic silk beauty looked at Zeng Tian, then at Zi JI and Di Rui'er behind him, and shook her head. "Are definitely not the destined ones!"
However foolish the aromatic silk beauty might be, she would never mistake Ferocious Beasts like Zeng Tian and his companions, who were not even human, for the destined ones. How could Soul Beasts possibly join the Tang Sect?
At those words, the smile abruptly vanished from Zeng Tian's face. He sneered, "Do you think I'm negotiating with you?"
"And what do you mean, only the destined ones can take you away? If I understand correctly, you're planning to leave with humans, right? Only humans can become these 'destined ones' you speak of!"
The moment he said that, the gazes the Auspicious Beast and Zi JI directed at the aromatic silk beauty filled with disgust.
As a Soul Beast, she considered humans at every turn and was even willing to sacrifice herself for them. This hundred-thousand-year plant Soul Beast was far too much of a traitor to her own kind.
Even the aromatic silk beauty's expression turned exceedingly ugly upon hearing Zeng Tian's words.
His accusation had unquestionably placed her in the position of betraying the Soul Beast Clan. If she did not explain herself, she would be admitting that she