The Phantom Power here was much denser than in the Cangmang Mountains, and the environnt was also very beautiful. She could tell that everyone liked it here a lot.
"Of course, you can, Dudu," Dugu Qianye called out.
"Master."
Dudu appeared in Dugu Qianye’s arms.
"This is Dudu, the Chief Butler of the Refining Demon Pot. If you need anything, just ask him. Dudu, later arrange a mountain for the Black Panther and the others," Dugu Qianye said.
"Okay," Dudu replied.
"Now, Hei Feng, take everyone to move," Dugu Qianye said, and then she left the Refining Demon Pot with everyone.
Saying it was a move was actually her having the Beasts gather dicinal herbs and ores from this mountain for her. Previously, she often had to walk away frustrated due to the lack of enough hands when encountering many dicinal herbs, but now with so many helpers, she quickly strip-mined the entire mountain.
Speaking of He Yan and Ye Canglan, they led the Black Panther back to the camp. Due to the numbers, they could only let them stay outside. In the evening, when the others returned, they were shocked to see so many Phantom Beasts in the camp, thinking a beast tide was upon them. Just as everyone entered a state of ergency, He Yan and the others ca out of their tents.
"Stone, what’s going on here?" Dan Jingtian ca over and asked He Yan.
The others also looked at He Yan.
He Yan briefly explained the day’s events, and when he ca to the part about Dugu Qianye contracting the Panther King, everyone let out exclamations of surprise.
"So my brother has taken in another Divine Beast? Taming a Divine Beast, he’s at least a Beast Taming Grandmaster, right? Tsk tsk, I feel more and more left behind by my brother! That won’t do, I need to step up my ga!" Dan Jingtian exclaid.
"All these Phantom Beasts are ours? Did the boss just take soone’s nest? So many Holy Beasts!" Sun Kui said excitedly as he looked at the Phantom Beasts lying around.
By the ti Dugu Qianye returned to camp, it was very late. She thought everyone had gone to rest, but instead, she was t with 100 pairs of reproachful eyes staring at her.
"Why haven’t you all gone to rest?" Dugu Qianye asked.
"Do you think anyone could sleep?" Dan Jingtian rolled his eyes and said, "Where have you been? You got back so late, everyone was worried to death."
Everyone got excited seeing so many Phantom Beasts when they returned in the evening, but that excitent was gradually replaced with worry. They were afraid sothing had happened to her since she was gone for so long. When they asked Xiaojiu and the others, they just said "It’s fine" and stopped talking.
"I took a round through the Black Panther’s territory," Dugu Qianye replied, touching her nose. Feeling overwheld by so many pairs of eyes filled with reproach, she felt rather Alexandred at the situation. Her gaze shifted as she saw the group of Black Panthers behind the crowd.
"Since no one has gone to rest, let’s distribute the Phantom Beasts. How many of you still don’t have an Advance Level Holy Beast?"
After taking a count, Dugu Qianye found there were 58 Phantom Masters, and only 23 of them did not have an Advance Level Holy Beast.
"Go pick your Holy Beasts and then bring them here for the contract. It’s best to choose the highest-ranked ones. Who knows, maybe you’ll advance to a Divine Beast right after the contract," Dugu Qianye said.
They had seen Dugu Qianye ta beasts before and knew that the beasts she trained would advance in rank, so the remaining few excitedly went off to select their beasts. The rest were told by Dugu Qianye to rest.
After taming the holy beasts for them, there were still twenty holy beasts brought by He Yan that she sneakily took into the Refining Demon Pot to join the other Black Panthers when no one was paying attention. Thinking of the several hundred Black Panthers, Dugu Qianye couldn’t help thinking that if they encountered soone foolish enough to provoke them, even a group fight would beat the opponent to death!
The next day, Dugu Qianye instructed everyone to continue training, while she began to wander around Cangmang Mountain. Although it was called wandering, in reality, she was thoroughly sweeping through each mountain peak. Whenever she saw herbs or ores, they were gone with the wind, leaving no trace behind, which made the Phantom Beasts in the mountains tremble incessantly.
They had never seen soone so stingy! That was the sa thought many Phantom Beasts had after seeing the mountain peaks Dugu Qianye passed by.
That day, Dugu Qianye brought her beasts to a mountain peak. She found a cave and walked inside.
"Master, it’s so cold in here!" Xiaoyin said, shivering as she looked at the icy walls around her.
"Hmm, it is quite cold. Do you want to go back to the Refining Demon Pot?" Dugu Qianye asked.
"No need, I’m not that dumb lion who can’t handle the cold and has to hide," Xiaoyin retorted, making fun of Liehuo in the Refining Demon Pot.
This place was tens of thousands of kiloters away from the camp, a naless peak. Perhaps it was the cold that kept the number of Phantom Beasts here low.
That morning, she had been sweeping through the peaks at the campsite when suddenly Dudu communicated to her that there was sothing good here. With the excitent in its voice, Dugu Qianye rode Qingluan to this place. Upon arrival, Xiaoyin and Liehuo both asked to co out, but Liehuo had to be taken back in by Dugu Qianye after it scread because it was too cold here. Therefore, it was the butt of Xiaoyin’s jokes.
Guided by Dudu, Dugu Qianye continued along the cave’s winding pathway. The andering route couldn’t help but remind her of the ti when she first encountered Xiaohuo. It had also been a andering cave back then.
Continuing forward, Xiaoyin eventually couldn’t bear it and returned to the Refining Demon Pot. As for Dugu Qianye, she wrapped herself in Xiaohuo’s Phoenix Golden Fla to keep going.
"Dudu, what’s inside here that even I have to use Phoenix Golden Fla to resist?" Dugu Qianye asked as she walked and communicated with Dudu.
"I’m not sure, I can only feel that it’s that thing," Dudu replied.
"What thing is it?" Dugu Qianye asked again.
"It’s that thing, you know?" Dudu answered.
Uh, okay, you win. I’m speechless, Dugu Qianye thought.
After about half an hour more, Dugu Qianye finally arrived at a spacious cave. Upon entering, what she saw was a world as dreamy as crystal. The walls were thickly covered with ice, and in the middle was a small pond that was not frozen. Inside stood a blue lotus-like plant, emitting a faint glow, turning the surrounding ice blue. At the very back on a stone platform, there was an indescribable beast egg.
Dugu Qianye approached the edge of the pond, squatted down, and looked at the blue lotus on the water’s surface. Though it was called a lotus, it didn’t quite look like one; lotuses have larger petals and fewer in number, typically pink and green in color. But this lotus was almost half the size of the pond, with small and fine petals. By her estimate, there were nearly a hundred petals. What set it apart further was that the petals were blue, as pure as sapphires!
"What’s this?" Dugu Qianye looked at the plant in the water and asked Dudu.
"This is Tianhua," Dudu said, "the supre among dicinal herbs, a treasure amongst the heavens and the earth, capable of regrowing limbs and healing flesh and bone. And ’one sky, one Tianhua’ ans that there is only one Tianhua under a piece of sky. As long as it has one petal left, it will not die. Master, transplant it."
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