The development of the matter was a bit frivolous, and everyone present didn't know what expression to make for a moment.
The Tiger King said that it was not the mastermind behind the beast tide, the real murderer was someone else, and it had found him.
It said all this in front of everyone present, and it is very likely that there is a way to prove it.
But can they believe the words of the Tiger King, a spiritual beast that was once their enemy?
Wen Gong's face turned a little ugly, "Everyone, you can't believe what the aliens say!"
This statement also expressed what everyone was thinking in their hearts. Yes, they didn't want to believe it.
"The Tiger King hasn't said anything yet. City Lord Wen, you are so anxious... are you feeling guilty?" Yu Long asked back with a smile, but the meaning of his words made Wen Gong and the other two's eyes tighten.
When Rong Lin saw it, he suddenly understood the reason for all this.
Judging from the Tiger King's behavior, the Beast Tide was closely related to these three brothers. And today's four-city crusade against the Rong family was also initiated by Wen Gong.
After figuring it out, Rong Lin stepped forward with a cold face, "Wen Gong, when did my Rong family ever offend you? You want to kill my Rong family!"
Wen Gong's face twitched as he retorted, "The decision to attack the Rong family was made jointly by all the forces in the four cities. Besides, aren't the things your Rong family has done enough to atone for their sins with death?"
"Tsk!" The Tiger King snorted with disdain. "What did the Rong family do? Colluding with me? Betraying humanity? Unleashing a beast tide? It's fine that you, Wen Gong, orchestrated the beast tide and pinned the blame on me, but you're not even letting the Rong family, who are also human, off?!"
As soon as the Tiger King finished speaking, the crowd was silent for a moment, then exploded.
The meaning of this statement is obvious, ignoring the Tiger King's protection of the Rong family, and who is the culprit that caused the beast tide.
But what follows is disbelief!
"No way, how could City Lord Wen do such a thing?"
"Yes, City Lord Wen's attitude towards us independent cultivators is usually even more friendly than that towards the leaders of other factions!"
"That's right. I believe City Lord Wen. This must be a conspiracy between Tiger King and the Rong family! They actually want to frame City Lord Wen and alienate us. Their intentions are truly sinister!"
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Previously, Wen Gong's image of being a man of integrity and righteousness had been deeply rooted in people's hearts. Now that he was said to be the culprit of the beast tide, and it was said by the Tiger King himself, people naturally didn't dare to believe it.
"The beast race needs to have fifth-level cultivation to control lower-level spirit beasts. But you humans only need a medicine that can make spirit beasts crazy, and a magic weapon to control them!" The Tiger King sneered and looked at Xi Wen in front of him.
Then I saw that the horn hanging on his waist had been taken back at some point.
Everyone saw this clearly, and as a result, their trust in Wen Gong and his group was somewhat shaken.
"...I've seen that horn, and those hands." Rong Jian stared at Xi Wen and said, "He was riding a fire lion among the beast tide."
"Yes, it's him. Even though he's hiding his features with a black cloak, I'll never mistake those hands and that horn!"
Rong Jian was a little excited. After all, if he could find out the mastermind behind the scenes, the disaster his Rong family was facing today would no longer be a disaster.
However, the Lord of Gucheng shook his head and said, "Young man from the Rong family, as a member of the Tiger King's side, your words cannot be taken seriously!"
The people on the Tiger King's side would naturally respond to what the Tiger King said. It was impossible to tell whether it was true or false.
Rong Jian pursed his lips, feeling helpless about this. These people insisted on linking him to the Tiger King, and he had expected that they would not believe him.
"If you don't believe Rong Jian, then where is this old man?" He saw a white-haired old man walking slowly towards him, leaning on a cane and supported by a young girl in white.
The crowd consciously made way for the old man, and their eyes were full of respect as they looked at him.
The man's name was Lu Shi, and he ran a clinic in Rongcheng. The reason why the people of the four cities treated him like this was that he was a third-level alchemist.
The cultivation of cultivators cannot be done without the aid of elixirs. Therefore, every alchemist has a special meaning among cultivators and their status is generally respected.
"Grandpa, why are you here?" The head of the Fu family stepped forward and asked respectfully.
Lu Shi snorted softly: "Of course it's about the beast tide!"
As he spoke, Lu Shi, supported by the girl, walked slowly to the front of the crowd and hit the ground hard with the crutch in his hand.
"During the beast tide, countless cultivators from the four cities were killed or injured. I never thought that this was caused by our human race!"
A trace of panic flashed across Wen Gong's pale face, but he forced himself to remain calm: "Old man, even if you want to help the Rong family, you have to produce evidence, right?"
"I came here to prove that so many cultivators in the four cities cannot be deceived by a villain!" After Lu Shi finished speaking, he signaled with his eyes to the girl beside him.
The girl nodded, stepped out, and placed the corpses of several spirit beasts on the ground.
"Some time ago, after the beast tide, the clinic received some spirit beast corpses brought back by wandering cultivators," the girl said. "We didn't notice anything at first, until Grandpa used the core of a dead spirit beast while refining an elixir, and it caused the elixir to fail!"
When alchemists make elixirs, they often use materials from spiritual beasts, such as spiritual beast cores, spiritual beast internal organs, etc.
"Although no one can guarantee 100% success in alchemy, at that time, Grandpa was only refining a first-level elixir. Even if he failed, he shouldn't have failed so many times in a row."
"Confused, Grandpa took me to investigate the ingredients for the elixir, and we discovered something amiss with the beast cores!" The girl squatted down and removed a red, round core from the head of a spirit beast corpse. "These beast cores are all shattered to varying degrees from the inside out. They're invisible to the naked eye, but they're real!"
"This also caused the medicinal power contained in the beast core to be fragmented and difficult to use for alchemy. This is why Grandpa's alchemy failed!"
After the girl finished speaking, there was silence in the room.
The spirit beast's core shattered from within. What did this mean? Before the spirit beast died, it exploded beyond its own strength, causing the core to be unable to withstand it.
But the problem is that the so-called beast tide, although the spiritual beasts have lost their minds, is ultimately just a guided migration.
Most of the time, when the beast tide ends, the spirit beasts regain their sanity and will disperse one by one to continue their lives instead of dying!
"Grandpa has been observing the corpses of spirit beasts for a while now, and he finally found the reason why they went crazy and even lost their lives inexplicably."
As she spoke, the girl cut the spirit beast's corpse into pieces with a small dagger.
"Everyone, you can see that the lungs of these spirit beasts are stained with a fine red powder that entered their bodies through their respiratory tract. This is what the Tiger King mentioned... the drug that can drive spirit beasts crazy!"
Lu Shi sighed softly and continued, "This red fine powder is called Soul Devouring. It's a rare drug. When spirit beasts inhale it, they lose their sanity and uncontrollably absorb spiritual energy beyond their capacity until they die!"
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