"So we've gone deep into Mist Mountain," Demon Phoenix said, his eyes widening.
"Why else would there be traces of divine beasts around us?" Huang Xiao said with a sigh. "Only a place bristling with dangers like this could keep the people of the Jianghu out and let divine beasts hide within."
"You noticed long ago, so why didn't you tell me sooner?" Demon Phoenix complained to Huang Xiao.
"You never asked," Huang Xiao replied.
Demon Phoenix was momentarily speechless. He really had never asked.
After thinking it over, Demon Phoenix decided not to say anything more to Huang Xiao. Instead, he asked Huo Lian ahead of them, "Senior, there are traces of divine beasts here. Couldn't you simply catch a few?"
Demon Phoenix knew that Huo Lian had obtained some divine beast remains back then.
Rather than taking those remains, he might as well catch some living divine beasts here.
"Very few divine beasts meet this old man's requirements," Huo Lian said. "Mist Mountain is vast, and many divine beasts do indeed hide within it. Some meet this old man's requirements, too, but how am I to find them? Even if I caught divine beasts that weren't strong enough, they would be of no use to this old man."
Demon Phoenix fell silent. There had been traces of divine beasts just now, but Huo Lian's requirements were certainly extremely exacting. Most would still fail to meet them.
Huo Lian had sought these from the Tomb Clan precisely because those divine beasts had been nurtured by Imperial Remnant Manor for years. Their strength and grade were both sufficient.
Such divine beasts could practically only be encountered by chance, not sought out, in the outside world. Even if there were any, their numbers would not suffice.
Otherwise, Huo Lian would not