Chapter 336: A Favor (2/2)
”Any last name?” Xue Wei asked, but she just shook her head. She was just a bat; she had no use for a family name.
”Well then, take the name Xue for now.” His family was rather small, so far it only consisted of himself and Luoluo. What harm would there be in adding a Scarlet Blood Bat Queen as well?
Hearing this, Xue Fu felt slightly stunned, but then she felt the warmth. To be considered a person in the same family with a Sovereign Beast, this was indeed a great honor. She had not expected such favor to be bestowed upon her, and her cheeks flushed with pride.
Xue Wei's childhood was lived as a human. He did not know how revered the Sovereign Beasts were, and he had never grown up thinking he was better than others. In fact, when he grew up, he was always looked down upon and seen as trash. Now that he was able to cultivate, he was still of the mindset that although some people might be geniuses, only hard work was what mattered.
The other bats were also filled with reverence. All of them looked at Xue Wei as if he was a deity who had descended into the mundane world.
They felt that he was capable of fighting against anyone and winning. He was, without a doubt, a Sovereign Beast, and they were unbeatable!
Their faith in Xue Wei was unquestionable.
If the Evil Spirit was against him, he would kill the Evil Spirit. If the heavens were against him, what harm was there in exterminating the heavens too?
They all had complete faith in Xue Wei, anything he wanted to do he could do. They were not even thinking about him being a lower rank than them. Although he was the weakest present, when one looked at cultivation base, he was the one they all looked for to make decisions. He was also the one they felt would save them all when the actual battle would occur.
No one spoke anymore, as they walked out of the passage, and into the battlefield.
The battlefield stretched as far in front of them as far as the eye could see.
Broken bones, armors, banners, and weapons were lying everywhere on the ground. When walking, it was near impossible to find a place to step.
Millions of people had died here. Not all of them were King and Emperor level cultivators, some were Saints, and a few were even Knights.
However, the Knights had died instantly upon entering the battlefield, and that was why so many bones and items could be found at the front of the battlefield.
The further in they came, the fewer skeletons and things they came across, there were at least three to ten meters between each dead person.
Most of these had already been looted, but there were rare herbs everywhere that they harvested one after another.
While the outside was mainly Blood Ginseng and Corpse Grass, a wide variety of herbs were present within the battlefield.
They found Soul Hyacinths, Crimson Blood Sunflowers, Wyvern Tail Lily, Ethereal Light Rose, Radiant Frozen Daisy, Man-Eating Alchemilla, and many more.
These herbs were all immensely rare, and all of them were hundreds of years old, making them able to increase the potency of the herbs that Xue Wei could concoct.
As they came further into the battlefield, they also found various rare ores, and they quickly excavated them.
”My King!” Xue Fu called out and caught the attention of everyone present.
”We have found a top grade essence stone lode,” she said humbly, and Xue Wei's eyes widened in shock when he heard that.
Essence stones were a universal currency throughout the entire world, but at the same time, it was also a resource needed when cultivating.
Essence stones were as the name said, stones that contained heaven and earth essence.
This essence was much denser than it was in the surrounding air, so they could help improving one's cultivation base much faster than when one relied solely on the usual cultivation speed.
Especially top-ranked stones were very hard to come by, and Xue Wei was ecstatic. Providing for his friends and family was not simple, so if he could mine this lode, he would be able to manage for a long while, both when cultivating, but also when purchasing things.
He, therefore, rushed towards Xue Fu to see how big the lode was, and when he arrived, his eyes widened in shock. It was not a small lode; it was a massive one, so big that there were at least a couple of millions of essence stones, if not more.
”This is going to take some time,” Xue Wei muttered, but he was in a brilliant mood, as he began excavating the stones, getting help from the bats and his friends.
Even though they were thousands of creatures who were mining, it ended up taking them four days of intensive work before they had finished taking out every single essence stone.
These essence stones ended up counting a total of eight million, three hundred thousand, and eleven top-ranked essence stones.
It was an astronomical amount, and since the bats had absolutely no use for these stones, all of them were handed over to Xue Wei.
Getting so many essence stones, one of his storage treasures were filled up, with no space for anything else.
Fortunately, he had gained a numerous amount of storage treasures while being on the Thunder Graveyard Island, so he was not about to run out of space.