Divine Brilliance

“It is a beast tomb!”

Jing Tao Zhenren’s hands were slightly trembling as he seemed to be surprising his joy and shock as he looked calmly forwards.

“Numerous beast corpses and deathly energy all around. There is no doubt this is a beast tomb!”

The entire fleet was dead silent. The Subordinate ships that were in an uproar all calmed down. It was obvious that there were many well-read and experienced people.

“This is just the outside. These beasts died from fighting.”

Zong Shou looked at the foot of the mountain, “The true beast tomb should be at the foot of the mountain.”

These beasts that died from fighting were the reason why those high intelligent beasts and evil spirits still gathered here even though they knew they couldn’t enter the beast tomb.

All the corpses, either dead from fighting or from being hunted on the way towards the beast, were all pillaged. Only the bones were left and some broken pieces of fur and leather.

Zong Ling’s brows furrowed, “there isn’t any Ying vein but the Ying strength is so abundant here, how many evil spirits died here…”

Everyone kept silent. All the signs and scenes here was similar to the legendary beast tomb.

Without needing Gu Liekong to rush them all, the cloud ships increased their speeds, eagerly going forwards. A few hundred spirit master all increased their illumination range.

In just a few moments, numerous corpses suddenly appeared in front of their eyes.

With ten miles in front of them as the border, numerous beast bones and corpses stacked up like oceans and mountains.

At first glance, there were hundreds of thousands.

“…f***, they are all at least grade 4!”

Hu Zhongyuan slightly trembled like he noticed something, his eyes constricting, “How is this possible? These beast corpses accumulated for hundreds and thousands of years. How haven’t they decayed?”

“It is mostly the case in beast tombs! Where beast crystals gather, the amount of spiritual energy can be compared to spiritual houses and shrines. Only the death energy is too strong and isn’t suitable for cultivation.”

Jing Tao didn’t care, a light flashing in his eyes, “Complete beast corpses and soul stones are where the true value of beast tombs lie it. Looking at the scale there should be at least 50 thousand feet big, millions of corpses. What we don’t know is how many grade 6 corpses there are…”

Then he turned around and said sincerely, “this place is found by city lord Zong, I shouldn’t have greedy thoughts. Only the ingredients here are what I desire. Can city lord get some for me? If the city lord has any inconveniences, I am willing to buy it at market price!”

When Zhao Yanran heard that she mocked, “What a good can you do, leave some for me. As expected from the Leingyun Sect…” these righteous path sects, even doing such snatching benefit matters they make it sound really official and morally right.

Zong Shou didn’t care, his smile was extremely bright.

“Zhenren is too courteous. With my relationship with Lingyun Sect, why do you need to be like this? The beast corpses here I am unable to take it all this time. How about this, Lingyun Sect can take any grade 4 corpses. Any grade 5 and above I will give you all 10%. This 10% will be sold to you st 70% of the market price. However, when we go back, your sect just protects the safety of our fleet. I am the owner of Gantian Mountain so I have to think for my people and be fair so that they are pleased. What does Jing Tao Zhenren think?”

Jing Tao’s face wasn’t so thick. He was stabbed by Zhao Yanran’s face such that he flushed red. When he heard Zong Shou’s words, he was delighted. He didn’t care about grade 4 and below ones as the Sect didn’t lack any, however it was better than nothing. However, 10% of the grade 5 and above ones were huge. He immediately nodded, “I agree! My Lingyun Sect is getting benefits so naturally, we will have to protect you. City Lord is righteous, Jing Tao thanks you!”

Zhao Yanran fueled her lips in disdain, thinking that this Zong Shou was truly fit to be Monster king, his smile was so fake. Then he pointed towards Xuan Yunlan and her.

“You 2 are the same, 10%! The terms are the same as theirs.”

Zhao Yanran’s eyes lit up, high fiving Zong Shou without hesitation, “Deal, 10% it is!”

Xuan Yunlan smiled, bowing respectfully, “The lord’s good grace, I represent Qingyin School to thank you for it! 10% of beast corpses, it would be disrespectful for me to decline.

When Jing Tao Zhenren heard that, he felt slightly uncomfortable. However, thinking that be it this Seven Spirit Sect or Qingyin School, their strengths were lower than Lingyun Sect, but their relationship with Zong Shou was much closer. If he was the person, he couldn’t just solely trust Lingyun Sect. As such, he could only suppress his unhappiness.

Zong Shou laughed out loud when he heard that, returning to his throne and sitting down heroically, “Tell the ships today that anyone who sees it can have a share! Let them move these corpses up quickly. When we return, we will split it based on their effort. All soldiers will be rewarded! Also, I will warn everyone. Anyone who dares to keep it for themselves and hide it, my Gantian Mountain will punish him.”

In just a moment the entire fleet cheered out like thunder. One could hear the cheers of “ruler is wise”.

Some city lords who followed along decided to board Zong Shou’s ship, kneeling to thank him. Their faces were all red with excitement. Some of them were feeling fortunate.

They originally thought that it would be good if they get 40-50% of previous years, even thinking they might return empty-handed with nothing.

Who knew that Zong Shou gave them such a huge surprise. This income would be more than ten times usual.

They suddenly understood why the new Monster king told them to bring so many merchant ships. They were feeling regretful, doubting at that time and not listening to his orders.

If they knew, they would have risked their lives to bring even more ships over.

That Zhu Junhou felt heart pained. Although Xuan Mountain City might not be as strong as Gantian, in terms of control of the land it was better than Zong Shou.

If they went all out to recruit, a thousand merchant ships could be easily gathered. Wouldn’t they be able to fill more beast corpses?

Grade 4 and above, be it bones, fur or leather were all expensive. A perfectly undamaged corpse even went for more shocking prices. Sometimes it was even several times more than beast crystals!

1800 cloud ships went full speed ahead into the beast tomb. Then everyone felt a dense pressure on their minds.

Zong Shou and the others frowned slightly before not bothering. Instead, they acted relaxed. They knew that this was the reason why those beasts and evil spirits didn’t dare enter.

Looking at the situation, it should be a martial art intent left by a human race expert which hadn’t dissipated from this area.

It might have a huge threat to those beasts, but to the human race, they could rely on and borrow its strength.

Then the entire fleet took turns to land. 700 thousand people were like worker bees as they got busy. They all acted to move the beast corpses up on the boat.

Unfortunately, they didn’t bring enough ships. Without Zong Shou especially giving orders, they only moved beast corpses above grade 5. For all the grade 4 ones, they only took the rarest types. As for the rest, they took the beast crystals and soul stones as well as fur, leather, and tendons. These things didn’t take up much space.

Zong Shou and Xuanyuan Yiren went all out in an unrestrained manner. Both of them had small heaven and earth-bags with large sizes and thus they earned a lot.

It made Jing Tao Zhenren, Zhao Yanran, and Xuan Yunlan all envious. Although they brought small heaven and earth-bags too, because of the agreement, they could only take grade 4 and below beast corpses.

The beast tomb scale was huge and far from what Jing Tao estimated. Hundred thousand years of accumulation meant that it was exceptional.

700 thousand soldiers who could at least carry above 500 kilograms of weight working together, and they used 2 full days to move all the grade 5-6 corpses on board.

The harvest this time was unable to be estimated due to the lack of time.

However, just the beast crystals estimated by Tan Tao, the overall value should be around 10 million grade 4 beast crystals. If they included the corpses that could be sold for a high price that was even tougher to calculate.

Hu Zhongyuan was stunned. This time apart from the Gantian Zong family his iron tiger race did the most work. When they return they would at least get a million grade 4 crystals. This was the same as 10 times that which was in their treasury now! It could help develop numerous experts for their race.

The other people were similar, unable to calm down. Most of them were filled with regret.

On the 5th morning that they entered this Hailing Plains, the huge beast tomb was cleaned out.

Zong Shou was dark and vicious when he did things. What he couldn’t get, he didn’t let others get.

All the grade 4 corpses he couldn’t take away was destroyed and spoilt, causing their value to decrease greatly.

Then Zong Shou didn’t say a word, looking seriously at the deepest layer of the beast tomb. He looked afar at a canyon which was a thousand feet wide. The giant mountains that pierced into the sky were made of stone 10 times harder than that of Tiegang stone.

The deep parts of this canyon were where that martial intent came from.

The surrounding people were surprised but they didn’t speak to disturb his thoughts. Jing Tao didn’t have such worries, asking curiously, “Your highness what is going on? Is there something wrong within?”

Since getting the huge benefits his tone became much more courteous. He called him your highness, treating him like his king.

Zong Shou instantly heaved a sigh of relief. Waiting for him to ask was difficult.

He didn’t show anything on his face, nodding slightly, “It is a little weird! I saw that the grade 6 beasts here are all at their healthy and strong ages and most of them were far from dying. Why did they want to enter the tomb, to charge into the canyon even if it cost them their life?”