Chapter 338 - Beast-Bearing Pool (1/2)

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Only then did the two remember about that intruder called Jing Qi. Upon careful thinking, they realized that they indeed didn’t see him on the way. Especially when they saw those Golden Core disciples fighting the demon beasts, disciples from various sects who attended the contest were all there, but only him was not seen. It was unlikely that Divine Heavens Sect left him alone.

Lonemoon’s heart sank, and without hesitation, he produced a tracking seal. That was left by him very long ago for the convenience of looking for him. Yet strangely, the tracking seal did not respond to him.

“How can this be?” His expression changed. “Where did he go?”

“He should be…” Shen Ying suddenly turned and pointed towards the Mirage Sea, “There!”

“The Mirage Sea!” Lonemoon and Yi Qing exchanged a look, and their hearts both sank. “Can it be that this beast tide has something to do with him?” Just now he was busy dealing with Chef’s explosion of Sword Qi and didn’t care what happened to that stupid kid after the contest. And he didn’t imagine that within only one day, he had produced a big trouble.

“With his ability, it’s impossible to cause such a big Beast Tide!” Yi Qing shook his head. “There should be another reason.”

“Let’s go and take a look!” Shen Ying suggested.

The two then flew up on their swords and went towards the depth of Mirage Sea. Great numbers of half-body beast corpses floated on the surface of the sea. Shen Ying’s sword movement might have been too violent, that only after the three had flown for a long while, they finally ceased to see those corpses.

Yet a great lot of demon beasts newly appeared from the bottom, and the numbers looked even larger than just now. They rushed in their direction in herds. As if they couldn’t see all the corpses filling the sea, they flooded past blindly, as though they were controlled by something.

This is too strange!

“I’m going to catch one to take a look!” said Lonemoon, before he flew down and produced a trapping array with the wave of a hand. The array formed a net filled with Spirit Qi. Lonemoon caught an eighth-level demon beast and brought it up.

The three stopped on a small island near them and threw the demon beast on the ground. The beast looked as though it was mad, hitting the trap around it in a craze. Even when the hitting had made it all bloody, it did not stop. Its eyes shone with a strange red light.

Lonemoon frowned and hit it with a sword spell. The beast fell to the ground instantly. He directly opened its belly with a wind blade, looked over it carefully, and then explored with Divine Perception. His eyes suddenly opened wide.

“This demon beast actually has no beast core!” How can this be? By right, for any demon beast, a Spirit Pill is always formed if it cultivates. Otherwise, there would be no way for them to concentrate Spiritual Power. This was apparently an eighth-grade demon beast, so it can’t have no Spirit Pill.

“Father Niu, how about trying soul-calling?” Yi Qing spoke to remind him.

Lonemoon stopped short, his hand gestures changed, and he used a soul-calling spell immediately. A flash of light was emitted from his fingers and swept directly towards the beast.

In an instant, a faint smoke rose from the beast corpse, which dissipated within a short while, not even forming a shape.

“This is… a remnant soul!” Lonemoon cried out in surprise, and Yi Qing’s eyes were also full of surprise.

There was definitely no problem with Lonemoon’s spells, which meant that the smoke just now was indeed the soul from this demon beast’s body. In the body of an eighth-grade demon beast, there was actually only a remnant soul. No! That might not even make for a remnant soul.

No wonder these beasts would only rush blindly towards the land. They probably didn’t have any spirit. There wasn’t even a soul in their body.

“What happened to their souls? Who took them?” By right, if somebody had done soul controlling they must be able to find the record. Not even Meng Po noticed this one.

“Perhaps, there wasn’t one in the first place.” Shen Ying’s eyes deepened, as she suddenly spoke.

“There wasn’t?” Lonemoon was stunned. “But… this demon beast was apparently alive. How could it not have one to begin with?”