Yan Zhong took a deep breath before speaking again.

"The elite team of the Ashen Cloak mercenary company was not like the other elite teams. It was bigger, much bigger." Yan Zhong spoke.

Lin Mu was getting tense upon hearing this, thus he gulped before asking.

"How many were there in the team?"

"Eighty mercenaries." Yan Zhong replied.

"All cultivators?" Lin Mu inquired.

"Yes, all cultivators." Yan Zhong answered while nodding his head.

Lin Mu went silent for a bit as he contemplated about the situation.

"How were they found?" Lin Mu asked.

Lin Mu understood that the more he knew about the situation, the better it would be for him. He had been hunting spirit beasts in the forest all this time, but now that there was a strong and ferocious spirit beast on the prowl, he may have to change his plans.

"The Ashen Cloak mercenaries sent out a search party later at night when the elite team did not return. They searched the entire night but still could not find them. It was only around four hours ago that they found them, or rather their remains." Yan Zhong answered.

You mean there were

that they found there was splattered blood and chunks of flesh along with the bits and pieces of their armor, which helped to identify them." Yan Zhong replied

was shocked by this, as he could not think of any beast that could do this. Sure, a beast would be able to kill such a large number of mercenaries, but it certainly could not eat them all. Still, from Yan Zhong's words, he could sense the hint of truth and

a huge problem at its hands. If such a beast wandered out of the forest,

the remains exactly

kilometers deep, in the northwestern side of the forest.���

the town. He knew about the area Yan Zhong had spoken about. The Northwestern part of the forest was accessible from the western exit of the town. It was the same exit where the mercenaries and hunters had set up their

forest, they would found mountains surrounded by ridges. It was a dangerous area that was very difficult to cross, as the mountains and ridges acted as a natural barrier. This not only prevented

tunnels. The frontier bridge was far towards the west, so the mercenaries had most likely used the smaller passes to cross

tunnels, as they were notorious for

idea what kind

except that it is likely to be very large in

There were far

Zhong and went to eat his breakfast. After quickly finishing his breakfast, he then went to the hunting shack. While Lin Mu was no longer living in the hunting shack,

and granted him privacy. Now that the winter had started it was even safer for him as not even the local hunters would come near

only allowed him to dodge strikes, it also gave him the ability to escape easily. Though that kind of situation has not occurred yet, and Lin Mu was hoping to keep it

three weeks was to find out information about Gan Ma. He had not forgotten about the test that senior Xukong had given him

reached a wall in his search for Gan Ma, as he has somehow disappeared off the face of the earth. He had tried asking around, but the

who were part of his group, but found out that they had disappeared as well. Some people said that he had gone to the forest to hunt,

Gan Ma had instead gone to Wu Lim city for some reason. He had thought about it but could not figure out any

as the chilling wind blew. It was a little later than noon when a change could be observed in Lin Mu. A faint wave of energy emanated from

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