Because of Zhan Yuan's appearance, this hunting trial was more chaotic than before. The strange beasts in the Black Wood Prison were full of hostility towards humans, which was a crisis for ordinary priests. However, for high-level priests such as Zhao Xinghong, there were more opportunities to fish in troubled waters, so their gains were much greater than the previous hunting trial. Zhao Xinghong took the colorful soul beads hunted by other high-level priests in advance in order to prove his ability and enhance his prestige in the Temple of Life.
Of course, at that time he had never thought that he would die at the hands of Mu Hanyan, and those colorful soul beads would also become Mu Hanyan's possession.
Guan Xiujing did not feel any sadness or sympathy for Zhao Xinghong's death. After all, there were so many priest families in the Temple of Life. Even if his strength was slightly stronger, the strong men from other families were not much different. His death did not have a big impact on the Temple of Life. Some families would even be secretly happy. However, if those five-colored soul beads could not be found, the Temple of Life would suffer a great loss.
You should know that the Temple of Life is not like the lower-level temples. Most of the priests therein have cultivation levels above that of the Divine Heart Priests, and the demand for relic soul beads is much greater. Moreover, as the strength increases, the effect of ordinary relic soul beads will become worse and worse. Only the five-colored soul beads can meet the needs of cultivation.
Although the harvest from each hunting trial is not small, reaching more than 200,000 soul beads, this hunting opportunity only comes once every thousand years. If Guan Xiu Jin cannot find those colorful soul beads, he doesn't know how he will survive the next thousand years.
Everyone also knew the importance of the five-colored soul beads, and they had no time to think about revenge. Since they couldn't get revenge anyway, they all started searching carefully.
But after searching for several hours and almost digging the entire canyon three feet deep, he still couldn't find the storage bracelet.
"Could it be that when the Right Priest blew himself up, the bracelet was destroyed as well?" a priest speculated.
"That's probably the only possibility," another priest said wearily. With their powerful divine consciousness, as long as the bracelet was still there, it wouldn't be hidden even if buried several feet underground. But they searched for it and couldn't find it. There was no other possibility except that it was destroyed.
Hearing their words, Guan Xiujin's face turned so dark that ink almost dripped out, and he cursed in his heart: Damn Zhao Xinghong, if you want to die, then die, if you want to explode, then explode, why did you destroy the five-colored soul bead? You just die and that's it, what should I do?
At this moment, Guan Xiu Jin didn't even want to avenge him, he just wanted to grind Zhao Xinghong into dust and scatter his ashes, but the other person was dead without even leaving ashes, so he didn't even have the chance to grind his ashes into dust.
The other priests also knew what the consequences would be without the more than 200,000 five-colored soul beads. When they thought of the stupid things Zhao Xinghong had done, they were all filled with resentment.
"Impossible! I've known the Right Priest for many years, and I've seen his storage bracelet. It's a Zhao family heirloom, and there's no way it could have been destroyed in a self-explosion," Kong Renhe said. After all, he had been friends with Zhao Xinghong for many years, and he didn't want his old friend to be cursed after his death.
"Then Lord Kong, please tell us where Lord Zhao's storage bracelet went. Otherwise, you can find it and show it to us." A priest said with an unhappy look on his face.
He had also participated in the previous hunt and had reaped a considerable reward. According to the rules, in addition to turning over the treasure to the Temple of Life, he could also retain a considerable amount for himself as a reward. He had been dissatisfied when Zhao Xinghong had previously forced them to hand over the Five-Colored Soul Orbs in order to gain credit, but he dared not speak out. Now that Zhao Xinghong was dead and the Five-Colored Soul Orbs were lost, it would be strange for him to be happy.
If Kong Renhe wanted to find it, he would have found it long ago. Why would he wait until now and be speechless after being asked by him?
"No, no?" Kong Renhe lowered his head and remained silent. Suddenly he thought of something and said.
"What's wrong?" The other priests looked at him.
"The Right Priest is besieged by strange beasts and trapped in a tight siege. Why does he still waste his spiritual energy to use the hymn of life to weave this huge vine net? Isn't that just tying himself up in knots? It doesn't make sense." Kong Renhe said.
"That's true. If it weren't for this giant vine net, they wouldn't have been wiped out. With Lord Zhao's strength, it wouldn't have been difficult for him to escape, and he wouldn't have been forced to self-destruct. Why did he do this?" Another priest said in confusion. He didn't participate in the hunting trial, so he didn't hold that much resentment towards Zhao Xinghong.
"Could it be that Lord Zhao had already guessed that the strange beast would retaliate in a big way, so he deliberately set an ambush here, intending to catch all the strange beasts in one fell swoop?" A relatively young priest said, slapping his forehead.
Guan Xiujin and the others didn't say anything, just looked at him as if he were an idiot.
Everyone knew that the major temples dared to come to the Blackwood Prison for the hunting trial because the alien beasts were leaderless and scattered. If they had truly united, it would be a wonder they dared to come. If Zhao Xinghong had known the alien beasts would retaliate in large numbers, he would have been too late to flee, let alone capture them all.
The priest soon thought of this and didn't dare to say more.
"If I'm not mistaken, Lord Zhao is right to set an ambush here, but the target is not the strange beast, but someone else." Kong Renhe said.
"You mean, Mu Hanyan!" Guan Xiujin and others' eyes lit up at the same time.
The grudge between Mu Hanyan and the Zhao family has long been no secret. Zhao Xinghong disregarded his status in Qianlong Valley and used some underhanded tricks to make things difficult for Mu Hanyan, but was almost forced into a state of disgrace by her. He was also publicly ridiculed by priests from several other higher-level temples. After this incident was spread, Zhao Xinghong became a laughing stock in the Temple of Life. One can imagine his hatred for Mu Hanyan.
"If Lord Zhao really wanted to take action against Mu Hanyan, she would have been killed long ago as a chief priest of a lower-level temple. What does this storage bracelet have to do with her?" The relatively younger priest said doubtfully.
"If she's dead, then this storage bracelet certainly has nothing to do with her. But what if she's not dead?" Kong Renhe paused, then continued, "Since Lord Zhao set an ambush here, he must have calculated that Mu Hanyan would pass by. If Mu Hanyan hadn't arrived yet, he would have accidentally engaged the pursuing alien beast and perished together with it. Think about it, who would be most likely to have the storage bracelet?"
The reason why Kong Renhe made such a speculation was, on the one hand, to find the storage bracelet and help Zhao Xinghong restore some reputation so that he would not be cursed after his death; on the other hand, he wanted to help Zhao Xinghong vent his anger. Even if it had nothing to do with Mu Hanyan, he would find ways to drag it onto her, not to mention that his speculation was not entirely unreasonable.
Even if Mu Hanyan was present, she had to admit that Jiang was indeed an experienced person. Even without seeing Zhao Xinghong's body, this old guy had guessed it almost right, and was only one step away from the truth.
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