CHAPTER 1623: CHAPTER 1623: WU DE AND THE LIGHTNING MINK’S WICKED GRINS

The Lightning Mink and Fang Bai met in the secular world and knew how important those confidantes around Fang Bai were to him.

If Fang Bai learned of what happened to those two confidantes at the Taixuan Sect, he would definitely be furious and would want to destroy the Taixuan Sect by any means.

The Lightning Mink thought it was fortunate that it came just in time, otherwise, in a few days, the two women’s situation might become even worse, and by then, Fang Bai might regret it for the rest of his life.

The Wind Roc, knowing the relationship between the Lightning Mink and Fang Bai, and hearing that this matter was closely related to its master’s confidantes, immediately returned to its true form, spread its wings, and flew towards the Tiger Clan Territory at the fastest speed.

"Little Mink, who are those little lovers of Fang Bai?"

Seeing the Wind Roc leave, Wu De couldn’t help but ask.

The Lightning Mink replied with a mischievous smile, "It’s that pair of sisters."

Wu De uttered an "Oh" and said, "Is it the Dongfang Sisters?"

The Lightning Mink shook its head and said, "No, it’s another pair!"

Wu De chuckled, "Then it’s the Linghu Sisters... That Fang Bai guy, with two pairs of sister blossoms around him, I really don’t know how he handles it all!"

The Lightning Mink rolled its eyes and said, "Why bother with so many things? If you have the skills, you could do it too!"

Wu De snorted, "I, the Taoist Master, am focused on cultivation with no distractions, where would I find the time for romantic affairs with women? Besides, rouge and powder are nothing but bones and skeletons in my eyes!"

The Lightning Mink snickered, "Fang Bai is involved with so many women, and it doesn’t seem to affect his cultivation! Also, you’re a big man but not interested in women, is there something wrong with your body?"

Wu De, like a cat whose tail was stepped on, jumped up high and spat, "Nonsense! I, the Taoist Master, am perfectly healthy and could handle ten women at night!"

After a pause, he added, "That Fang Bai kid has extraordinary talent, and a special physique, ordinary martial artists can’t compare. Him being entangled with so many women doesn’t affect his cultivation, doesn’t mean other martial artists can do the same..."

The Lightning Mink said, "Are you implying that you’re just an ordinary martial artist too?"

Wu De patted his chest and said, "I, the Taoist Master, have Dual Attribute Innate Spiritual Roots, a dragon and phoenix among people, how can I be compared with ordinary martial artists?"

The Lightning Mink glanced at him disdainfully and said, "Just you, with the Innate Spiritual Roots, a dragon and phoenix among people, and yet still at the Nascent Soul Realm... compared to me, Master Mink, you’re far behind!"

Wu De jumped up again, glaring, "Don’t be too smug! I, the Taoist Master, just had poor opportunities in the past, that’s why you got ahead! Just wait, in no more than two or three years, my cultivation level will surpass yours!"

The Lightning Mink sneered, "Then Master Mink will wait and see!"

...

The man and the mink stood on the mountaintop, bickering for half a day before stopping.

As night fell, the Lightning Mink said to Wu De, "I don’t know where the Taixuan Sect abducted the Linghu Sisters from, but they plan to use them as bargaining chips in five days to give them to an Elder from the Wuya Sect as Martial Dao Companions, to help him break through to the Soul Severing Realm and advance to the Thunder Tribulation Realm..."

The Lightning Mink told Wu De in detail what it had seen and heard inside the Taixuan Sect before, ending with a fearful tone, "The Supreme Elder of the Taixuan Sect is a Thunder Tribulation Layer One expert, that old guy is not to be underestimated! If I hadn’t been born with the ability to conceal my aura and move quickly, I might have been discovered by him."

Wu De frowned and thought for a moment, then said worriedly to the Lightning Mink, "By the time Wind Roc delivers the message to Fang Bai and he makes it here, it will probably be more than five days! Are we just going to watch as the Taixuan Sect forces the Linghu Sisters to become Martial Dao Companions with that Elder from the Wuya Sect?"

The Lightning Mink said, "Of course not! We’re friends with Fang Bai, how can we watch his women suffer?"

Wu De said, "But with the two of us, even if we join forces, we can’t stop them!"

The Lightning Mink said, "You’re so dumb! If we can’t do it openly, we’ll do it covertly!"

Saying this, it whispered into Wu De’s ear.

Wu De’s eyes lit up, and he finally patted the Lightning Mink’s shoulder, laughing, "You’re such a cunning fellow! Alright, that’s what we’ll do! We won’t stop until we cause chaos in the Taixuan Sect!"

The man and the beast, both with mischievous smiles, took advantage of the thick night to leap from the mountaintop and began to act separately.

Early the next morning, nearly all the disciples of the Taixuan Sect received some very bad news:

The Taixuan Sect, known for its tight defenses, had several ancient herb gardens that had existed for millennia, and overnight, over half of the highest-grade King Grade Superior Spiritual Medicines had been secretly harvested by someone, and the Spiritual Medicines with lower ages had been destroyed beyond measure.

Only the two herb gardens near the Supreme Elder’s and Sect Master’s halls remained unharmed.

Many Taixuan Sect disciples heard that their Sect Master, Duan Yi, upon learning of the severe damage to the herb gardens, threw a fit and smashed many things in the Sect Master Hall, then dispatched many high-level officials to the scene of the theft and destruction to strive to find any clues and catch the "culprit" who destroyed the herb gardens.

Duan Yi suspected that it might be the work of an "insider" within the sect.

Duan Yi felt that with the presence of the Thunder Tribulation Layer One Supreme Elder, Bao Zhenhai, it was very unlikely that outsiders would risk forming a deadly enmity with the Taixuan Sect by infiltrating it to conduct extensive theft and destruction of the herb gardens.

Moreover, the Taixuan Sect had many disciples and was well-informed, with spies widely distributed across the Three Thousand Great Worlds; if they poured all their resources into investigating, they would eventually be able to find out who the "culprit" was and then issue a Bounty Order to hunt them down, leaving them nowhere to hide.

From this perspective, the likelihood of an outsider committing the "crime" was not high.

Of course, this possibility could not be ruled out entirely.

The high-level officials sent out to find leads on the "culprit" soon reported back with results.

They believed that the theft and destruction of the sect’s herb gardens were not committed by a human Martial Artist, but by a Spirit Beast, and most likely it was a Spirit Beast that had reached the Soul Severing Realm.

"Damn beast!"

Upon receiving the report, Duan Yi was so angry he almost spat blood.

If a human Martial Artist had done this, he could have issued a Bounty Order in his capacity as Sect Master to have them hunted down, but since it was a Spirit Beast, he felt helpless and at a loss for what to do.

Soul Severing experts’ Spirit Beasts usually lived deep in the mountains.

And in the deep mountains, there were often many powerful Spirit Beasts, each with their own territory, and if human Martial Artists ventured in, they would face a mad assault.

Near the Taixuan Sect, there was said to be an ancient forest, dating back to the Desolate Ancient Era, where it was said many Soul Severing and even stronger Spirit Beasts lived, and not even the likes of Wuya Sect, which is a sect one level stronger, dared to enter that forest lightly.

If the Spirit Beast that destroyed the Taixuan Sect’s herb gardens lived in that ancient forest, the Taixuan Sect could only consider themselves unlucky.