Chapter 21: Cleaning Up the Mess, Dust Settles

A hundred-thousand-year soul beast is absolutely rare and hard to find on the current Douluo Continent.

If a Titled Douluo could obtain a hundred-thousand-year soul ring for their ninth soul ring, their strength would definitely be among the top tier of Titled Douluo!

This is the value of a hundred-thousand-year soul beast! Correspondingly, hundred-thousand-year soul beasts are hard to obtain, and ten-thousand-year-level soul rings and soul bones that match one's own attributes are also scarce resources.

Like Tang Xiao, as the Sect Master of the Clear Sky Sect, he only had one ten-thousand-year-level soul bone passed down from the Clear Sky Sect.

So when this Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear revealed a soul bone, the expressions of the several Elders changed instantly.

Their current strength was already at the pinnacle of this continent; to improve their strength, apart from trying their best to increase their soul power level, the only way was to obtain opportunities to improve from soul bones.

A soul bone that matched their own attributes was absolutely a huge temptation for them! The Fifth Elder swallowed, reached out and grabbed into the void, and a crystal-clear left arm bone was grabbed out.

"It, it really is a soul bone! And it's seventy-thousand-year level."

His hands trembled slightly, full of excitement. The anger over the slaughter of the disciples was diluted by a few points.

If he could trade the lives of a few disciples for a seventy-thousand-year-level Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear soul bone, he probably couldn't refuse.

Tang Xiao and Tang Qingqing also gathered around, their gazes lingering on this soul bone, their eyes full of longing.

The Fifth Elder fought a battle between heaven and man in his heart, and finally gritted his teeth and handed the soul bone in his hand to Tang Xiao, "You keep it! Only by handing it to you can this thing exert its maximum effect."

Although the other Elders also wanted to obtain this soul bone, they all agreed with the Fifth Elder's statement.

Currently, Tang Xiao was at level 96, preparing to break through to level 97; with this soul bone, he could further improve the strength of the Clear Sky Sect.

Tang Xiao looked at everyone, his eyes full of emotion, and nodded heavily: "Thank you all!"

"I will surely protect the Clear Sky Sect with my life!"

The Elders saw this and didn't say much more; reasonably and emotionally, this soul bone should belong to the Sect Master.

Tang Xiao put the soul bone into his storage soul guidance device and said to everyone: "The Beast Emperor is dead, this beast tide is over."

"Sigh, this is truly an unprovoked disaster."

"Elders, let's go see the wounded together..."

When Tang Xiao entered the village, he saw Tang Long, Tang Hu, and Ye Ming waiting for him there.

Tang Long stepped forward first, handed the three-thousand-year-level Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear left palm bone to Tang Xiao, and explained the cause and effect.

Tang Xiao nodded, his gaze lingering on the three, but he was pondering inwardly, "This external soul bone is extremely valuable and very suitable for sect disciples."

"If Tang Long and Tang Hu obtain it, their own cultivation will surely be able to improve another level. Now that the Clear Sky Sect is weak, only they can support the facade of the younger generation of the Clear Sky Sect."

"And soon, Hao's son, Tang San, will also return to the sect. Hearing from Yuehua, Tang San is a rare peerless genius. Giving him this external soul bone will surely dispel the gap with him..."

As his thoughts turned, he didn't consider Ye Ming at all.

After all, although Ye Ming had shown talent, his cultivation was still too poor, and most importantly, there was a distinction between close and distant...

Tang Xiao put the external soul bone into his storage soul guidance device, nodded to the three, and said: "I already know about this matter, I will arrange it later."

"For now, go save the wounded and count the casualties!"

Tang Xiao arranged everything in a few words, and Ye Ming saw this and secretly thought, this is completely not considering him.

"Tsk, Sect Master Tang is worthy of being the Sect Master, considering everything for the sect."

"Unfortunately, I only want to consider myself..."

Ye Ming thought to himself, but his face was calm, and he followed behind Tang Long and the others into the village to deal with the aftermath.

The Clear Sky Sect disciples were all strong men, and they handled the work of moving bricks and cleaning up with ease, taking only half a day to roughly clean up the entire village.

In the entire village, there were 79 Clear Sky Sect disciples, and 19 remained, including Ye Ming. There were 131 affiliated sect disciples, and 21 survived.

This soul beast attack on the village resulted in a total of 170 deaths!

In fact, the vast majority of people didn't even have time to react and died directly in the first wave of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear Beast Emperor's strike!

After the disciples in the back reacted, they withstood the first wave of the soul beasts' charge and waited for the rescue of Tang Xiao and the others.

In the center of the village, on a cleared square, corpses stained with blood were laid together.

Among these corpses, more than thirty were shriveled.

However, everyone was not too surprised, after all, most of these corpses were bitten by soul beasts, and their faces could not be distinguished.

There were even some smashed into powder by the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, and even the corpses could not be found.

If one investigated carefully, one would find that these shriveled corpses were all direct descendants of the Clear Sky Sect.

Currently, there were more than two hundred direct disciples left in the Clear Sky Sect, all present. The entire village was filled with a tragic and solemn atmosphere.

"These are our comrades, our relatives!"

"They died to protect the Clear Sky Sect, they are heroes!"

"The dead are gone, we must carry the hopes of our dead relatives and live on!"

"Let the prestige of my Clear Sky Sect resound throughout the continent!"

"The whole sect, wear mourning for the dead heroes for three days..."

After Tang Xiao finished speaking, he stepped forward and bowed, and everyone bowed to these dead corpses at the same time.

In the crowd, Ye Ming sighed, Tang Xiao is worthy of being the Sect Master, a few words condensed the hearts of the people.

If he wants to continue to improve his aptitude, Tang Xiao is definitely a great enemy.

After the ceremony was completed, Tang Xiao sent the dead sect members to heaven with a fire, and then everyone began to deal with the aftermath again.

The entire village was full of corpses of dead soul beasts, all of which had to be dealt with.

Although the number of deaths in the Clear Sky Sect this time was large, the value produced by these soul beast corpses could make up for a lot.

Some soul beast fur, claws, teeth, bones... were materials for medicine, and blood and flesh that could temper the body were even more valuable treasures.

The higher the age of the soul beast, the greater the value! Tang Long and Tang Hu took the sect disciples to clean up the ruins of the village, while Tang Xiao took the Elders back to the sect on the mountain peak to discuss matters.

For seven consecutive days, Ye Ming did not touch the Gu insects in his aperture at all, following everyone to repair houses and clean up soul beast remains.

The night was deep, and the broken little village was floating with white sails, sparsely populated, like a ghost village.

It was not until everything had settled that Ye Ming returned to the small wooden house where a courtyard wall had been destroyed by soul beasts.

Now there were only thirty-four people left in the entire village, which had lost its significance as an outpost.

"I am now an Inner Sect disciple, but Tang Long said to wait a few more days, and then move to the sect on the mountain peak together with the remaining people in the village."

Ye Ming rubbed his chin, "Hearing the news he spread, it was to wait for Tang San to arrive."

"That is to say, the plot is about to officially enter the right track..."

A light flashed in his eyes, he summoned the Blood Skull Gu, and whispered: "Then my strength should also be improved again..."

"I don't know how much aptitude these thirty-odd brothers can let me improve this time!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 22 =====