"None left?" Huang Xiao sighed. "It's been over eight hundred years. I hadn't held out much hope to begin with. If they're gone, there's nothing we can do."
"If that were all, we would certainly let the matter drop. The problem is that someone beat our people to those materials and took them just one day before they went to collect them," Elder Liu said, anger showing on his face.
"Who?" Wu Cang frowned. "Don't tell me it was the God-Burying Hall People? In the Main Hall, only the God-Burying Hall People would act so recklessly!"
"It was the God-Burying Hall People. They must have learned that we wanted to collect those precious materials that had been tempered for over eight hundred years in Demon Refining Valley, so they beat us to them. Damn them! We can't just let this go," Elder Liu said angrily.
"Didn't the Hall Master happen to go to the Main Hall? Couldn't they have told him about it while they were there?" Huang Xiao asked.
At this, a trace of embarrassment appeared on Elder Liu's face. "They've already returned. The Hall Master's trip to the Main Hall was so sudden that they knew nothing about it, and they didn't run into him on their way back either, so..."
"We must demand an explanation from the God-Burying Hall. Let's decide what to do first, then inform the Hall Master. He happens to be at the Main Hall now. Let's see what Pang Ruyuan has to say when he faces our Hall Master Wei!" Wu Cang said, his expression darkening.
He had now fully settled into his role as a Regent Elder of the Heavenly Demon Hall, putting its interests first in everything.
This was an egregious affair, nothing short of daylight robbery.
If the God-Burying Hall