Though anxious at heart, the gray-robed old man merely chuckled.
"Yan San, you truly are getting impatient. Even with two newly advanced fourth-rank wind beasts, you are still not much to look at! If you let them consolidate their cultivation for another ten or eight years, perhaps there might be some hope."
At the same time, he sighed inwardly. The other side had continuously attacked with low- and mid-rank wind beasts, trading life for life.
Aside from constantly wearing down the Tianli Clan's cultivators and mortal warriors, they were also preventing the clansmen from cultivating in peace, stopping more and stronger cultivators and warriors from emerging.
Only today did he learn another reason for the wind beasts' frenzied assaults: they had been concealing the auras of wind beasts on the verge of breaking through to the fourth rank.
"I wonder whether Shanhe's and Sixth Elder's disappearances were a trap they laid!"
Gong Shanhe and Sixth Elder had already been missing for over a decade. Originally, even if the three clans were combined, they still had fewer high-level cultivators than the Tianli Clan.
However, the wind beasts lived in the endless underground. The strange winds there could only be endured by wind beasts; even Spirit Transformation cultivators did not dare venture deeply inside without caution.
This did not mean wind beasts were all as powerful as Spirit Transformation cultivators. It was easy enough to understand—just as fire spirits could swim freely through lava, while cultivators might not dare leap into it.
Therefore, if one wished to exterminate a clan of wind beasts, one had to possess the ability to destroy that Sky Eye Pit.
More than ten years ago, even after Gong Shanhe and Sixth Elder departed, the Tianli Clan's high-level cultivators were still somewhat stronger than their opponents. The wind