Chapter 25 Qingyue Peak is Stronger than They Imagined
Not long after, dense and subtle noises came from deep in the forest.
The entire forest suddenly became restless, and groups of badgers rushed out from the night.
They were no more than a foot long, covered in short iron-gray fur, with strong limbs and sharp claws. They approached the camp of the Qingyue Peak disciples in almost the blink of an eye.
Pei Yan's eyes lit up, and he whispered to Shen Yubai, "Here they are, let's see how they handle it tonight."
Shen Yubai sneered, stood in the dark with his arms folded, waiting to see the disciples of Qingyue Peak fall into chaos.
But what the two men didn't expect was that the moment the first spirit-hoofed badger stepped into the camp, a bluish-white spiritual light curtain suddenly lit up, like a giant net rising from the ground, tightly trapping the spirit-hoofed badger inside.
When the spirit beast hit the barrier, it let out a series of shrill howls, and kicked and clawed at the ground with its limbs, but it could not escape at all.
As more spirit-hoofed badgers swarmed in, magic circles were triggered one after another, spiritual patterns on the ground flickered, and countless spiritual threads suddenly tightened to bind them all.
Several Qingyue Peak disciples, led by Su Luoxue, had already been lying in ambush at the edge of the formation. Seeing the herd of spirit-hoofed badgers rushing in, they immediately activated the center of the formation, and the spirit-hoofed badgers were subdued in the blink of an eye.
Pei Yan and Shen Yubai, who were standing in the dark, had dazed expressions on their faces.
They thought they would see the disciples of Qingyue Peak running away in all directions, but they did not expect to see them hunting in an orderly manner.
The two looked at each other and recalled this night in their previous life.
At that time, they disliked the shabby and simple camp at Qingyue Peak, which did not even have a spiritual tent to shelter from the rain and wind, so they secretly left the team at night and went to Xialing Peak.
As a result, just as they left, spirit beasts attacked at night and turned the Qingyue Peak camp upside down.
When they came back, they saw only a mess. The faces of their fellow disciples were covered with scratches, and many of the elixirs that the disciples had worked so hard to refine had been eaten.
Ye Zhao also scolded them for deserting their posts and said that they were responsible for all the losses of Qingyue Peak.
But at that time they didn't care at all. They just felt that with Ye Zhao's crudely made formations, it was impossible to stop the attack of the spirit beasts. Even if they were there, it would be useless.
But now, what they saw with their own eyes gave them a hard slap in the face.
The spirit-hoofed badgers did not even break into the camp, but were all trapped in the formation.
"Hmph." Chen Yubai snorted coldly, "Even if Ye Zhao has some tricks up her sleeve, so what? If she's really a good master, she should take the disciples to the Spirit Inn to rest. Why suffer so much? Leaving them camping in this shabby place, even if they drive away these spirit beasts, what's the point?"
Pei Yan also sneered and agreed: "That's right. If we had arranged for the disciples to live in the Spirit Inn like Master did, these troubles would not have happened at all. Besides, how many spirit stones are these low-level spirit beasts worth?"
"If you have this time, you might as well conserve your energy and prepare to enter the secret realm."
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The fire in the camp flickered, and dozens of spirit-hoofed badgers were trapped in the magic circle. Ye Zhao stood with his hands behind his back, glanced around, and then gave orders in a deep voice.
"Although these spirit-hoofed badgers have been strangled by the magic circle, if they are not handled properly, they will still be wasted. We must be careful."
She pointed to a fully grown badger. "First, cut from the base of the neck, but don't cut through the larynx. Then, cut along the spine all the way to the tail vertebrae. Be careful not to rupture the gallbladder in the abdominal cavity, as this will leak fluid and contaminate the flesh."
She demonstrated with her hands twice. "There are three glandular sacs in the body of a spirit-hoofed badger, one near the armpit, the other near the base of the hind legs, and the tailbone. Each has a different function, so remember not to mix them up. Sprinkle spiritual sand on these three areas before you cut it open, otherwise the spiritual power will leak out and the glandular sacs will be useless."
Su Luoxue immediately nodded and took a few disciples to deal with the corpse of the spirit-hoofed badger.
Ye Zhao continued, "The meat of the Spiritual Hoof Badger is a warming tonic, and is the best choice for refining Gu Yuan Dan. It needs to be sealed in a spirit box as soon as possible to prevent the loss of spiritual energy."
She pointed to several cold stone and wooden boxes that had been prepared not far away. "Cut the flesh off the limbs, wash them with clean water, and seal the whole body into the box."
Su Luoxue quickly took out a dagger from her backpack and demonstrated it to everyone: "This is what my master taught me, watch carefully."
"The inner lining of the spirit-hoofed badger is extremely rare and must be sealed in a jade box and not exposed to the air."
"Its front claw bones and fangs are suitable for refining weapons. When extracting the fangs, cut from the root and do not force them out."
She spoke slowly and steadily, and all the disciples were convinced.
Pei Yan and Shen Yubai, who were standing in the dark and watching, looked increasingly unhappy.
They had never seen these methods of dismantling monsters before, where almost every part of the body could be used?
What surprised them even more was that the disciples of Qingyue Peak, under the leadership of Ye Zhao and Su Luoxue, had an orderly division of labor, which was completely different from the chaos they had imagined.
Qingyue Peak...seems to be stronger than they imagined...
Pei Yan forced himself to suppress the strange feeling in his heart. "Oh, they are just a group of low-level spirit beasts. You are acting like you have obtained some treasure."
"After all, these are just the corpses of low-grade small beasts, but they're going to such great lengths to deal with them. Ye Zhao is truly stingy."
Over at the camp, a younger disciple from Qingyue Peak was also a little hesitant. He looked up at Ye Zhao, who was working on the spine, and said hesitantly, "Master, this badger's spine... do we really want to keep it? It doesn't look very useful."
Ye Zhao was not angry. She picked up a cleaned spirit-hoofed badger spine from the side, tapped the joint with her index finger, and a thin white mist slowly seeped out from the bone gap.
The white gas was like snow-white mist, floating in the air, and finally condensed into half a drop of milky white liquid, suspended in her palm.
"This is the spiritual essence of the spirit-hoofed badger."
Everyone listened with bated breath.
"Although the Spirit-hoofed Badger is a low-grade spiritual beast, because it lives in mountains and forests rich in spiritual energy, its spine absorbs the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and contains spiritual marrow. It can be used to refine body-tempering magic weapons and is a top-grade material."
Su Luoxue widened her eyes and hurriedly took out a small water jade bottle from her body, carefully collecting the spiritual essence that was dissipating in the air. The disciples on the other side also did the same.
Pei Yan and Shen Yubai stood there looking at each other, speechless for a moment.
They really couldn't believe that such precious essence was hidden in this most inconspicuous spine.
If they were in Ye Wange's team, these spines would have been discarded long ago...
Originally, they thought they had unique vision and left Qingyue Peak, but now they have to watch helplessly as these disciples, whom they once despised the most, reap rich rewards.
What made it even harder for them to accept was that they had originally thought Ye Zhao was a short-sighted, petty, and incompetent old-fashioned person, but now they discovered that she was so knowledgeable and seemed to know everything...
Even the debris discarded by others can be brought into play its maximum value in Ye Zhao's hands.
Pei Yan and Shen Yubai hid in the shade of the trees not far away, their expressions extremely complicated.
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