Zhou Wu, the Spirit Taming Sect's Grand Elder, tore open the void and lunged into battle with the winged, human-bodied half-demon. Man and demon flickered in and out of sight, exchanging countless blows in the air and within the void. Soon, other beasts that had undergone Demon Transformation appeared. Fortunately, Grand Elders from the Mysterious Maiden Sect and the Hundred Generations Sect also intervened; otherwise, just those few great demons could have left every cultivator of the three sects dead here. This alone offered a glimpse of why the Ancestral Dragon Forbidden Land deserved its reputation as the most dangerous place in the Silver Frost Forest.
Though the remaining Fierce Beasts and savage birds in the beast tide were ferocious, human strength could still withstand them. Only after fighting desperately through a day and a night did they drive the tide back, and the three sects lost more than half their people. Yet before the survivors could catch their breath, they plunged into the struggle for the Beast Cores and Beast Materials strewn across the ground, not even stopping to gather the freshly slain bodies of their fellow disciples. Such was the heartlessness of cultivators.
Mu Bai naturally showed no restraint either. Strong and swift, he specifically picked out Fourth Tier Fierce Beasts and savage birds to harvest their cores and materials, even storing some whole in his Mustard Seed Bag.
Zhou Dechen saw all of this. Standing tall and elegant at the bow, his expression had already darkened like a rain-laden sky.
"The sect's Grand Elder personally protected us as we entered the Ancestral Dragon Forbidden Land, and the sect's cultivators fought through blood to slay these Fierce Beasts. Everything obtained here belongs to the sect and shall be taken back to the sect's Treasury Hall by Elder Nangong