"Wh-what are these?" Xu Guangli widened his eyes and spoke incoherently as he looked at the tens of bags on the ground.

He was familiar with their patterns and auras, and he looked at them covetously. This was the advantage of an influential sect, where disciples that never possessed interspatial bags had still seen them in different places and could identify them.

Nonetheless, when there were 30 over interspatial bags, which were piled up together, even one with the strongest belief became hesitant.

Tian Yinghao chuckled and uttered proudly, "Junior Brother Xu, take a guess!"

Xu Guangji turned slightly pale. He opened his mouth but could not say a word.

Eventually, someone could not hold it back anymore and asked out loud, "Senior Brother Tian, are these… Interspatial bags?"

The person that raised the question was a conscientious person from the Smithing Hall. He was aware of the conflict between Xu Feiyu and Bai Zhiyi, but he never got involved and still did not want to be entangled in it. Nevertheless, he was moved when he saw so many interspatial bags.

Tian Yinghao looked up arrogantly like a proud big rooster that had just crowed in the morning. "Yes, these are all interspatial bags!"

There was instantly a clamor in the crowd. After all, there were over 30 interspatial bags. Even for the gifted fellows that only refined interspatial bags without doing anything else every day, they had never seen so many interspatial bags being piled up together.

Bai Zhiyi looked deeply at Tian Yinghao, then he turned around and laughed out loud. "Brother Xu, do you think that these interspatial bags are reliable? Why don't you check them?"

Xu Feiyu was red with anger, and he also regretted his actions very much.

At the end of the day, those were interspatial bags. Although he had one, who would not want more? Besides, even Xu Guangji—his precious grandson—did not have one.

"Elder Bai, how will these interspatial bags be handled?" Someone blurted, "I'd like to purchase one—may I?"

His voice seemed to have triggered everyone else, causing the others to shout as well. Consequently, the scene became rather chaotic.

Even so, nobody dared to rush forward to snatch the interspatial bags. This was because they knew while they could make noise about them, they would be violating the sect's rules if they tried to steal the bags. In the end, they would end up tragically.

Bai Zhiyi laughed and was about to reply to the person when a heavy voice was heard.

"What are you doing? Do you not have anything to do?"

The crowd was appalled when they turned to look.

Peng Yanbing was pacing into the Smithing Hall. After scanning the interspatial bags on the ground, he asked coldly, "Were these interspatial bags refined by Lil' Friend Ou?"

Everyone present could not help but gasp. As for Xu Feiyu and his grandson, they even turned pale.

Peng Yanbing was the sect elder that was in charge of the Smithing Hall, but he addressed Ou Yangming as Lil' Friend Ou… The other people could not figure out what that meant.

Tian Yinghao shivered a little, but he immediately answered, "Sect Elder, yes."

At this point, he could not bring himself to pronounce the words "Brother Ou".

Peng Yanbing nodded and instructed, "Keep the interspatial bags and send them to the inner hall."

Tian Yinghao responded to him but was hesitant.

"Why? Does anyone have any opinion on this?" Peng Yanbing was displeased. He looked at Xu Feiyu half-intentionally.

Xu Feiyu smiled bitterly and answered, "Sect Elder, that's fine with me."

Tian Yinghao fell silent for a brief moment before he expressed carefully, "Sect Elder, he hopes that these interspatial bags will be distributed by today. As for their prices… They can be discussed."

"By today?" Peng Yanbing raised his eyebrow and pondered for some time before he continued, "I understand. If that's the case, send them to the hall first; I'll sort them out after this. As for their prices, I won't let him suffer any loss."

Tian Yinghao finally sighed a breath of relief. He gathered the interspatial bags and left in a hurry.

Peng Yanbing looked coldly at everyone else and noted, "I have arrangements for this batch of interspatial bags, so you're not allowed to intervene. After 3 months, I'll arrange for another batch of interspatial bags to be sent to the Smithing Hall, so you can distribute those instead."

Many people howled in grief at first, but Peng Yanbing was one of the sect elders, by which even Bai Zhiyi and Xu Feiyu dared not oppose him at all. However, when they heard what the elder said at the end, they cheered.

Peng Yanbing shook his head. He turned around and took a step out when he suddenly stopped to look at Xu Feiyu. "You've been in the sect for decades, so you should be rewarded for hard work even if you haven't done meritorious deeds." He sighed and stated, "Bring your grandson to the ground level in the Rock Cave and stay there for a few years."

Xu Feiyu lowered his head very much and replied to him, "Yes. Thank you, Sect Elder."

Following that, Peng Yanbing walked away calmly with his hands behind his back. He headed to the depot.

The other people cast pitying looks at Xu Feiyu and his grandson and quickly stayed away as if they were afraid of staying too close to them.

Bai Zhiyi clicked his tongue. The fight that lasted for decades between him and Xu Feiyu had finally come to an end, but he somehow had a complicated feeling about it as though he was not delighted at all.

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Ou Yangming knew nothing about the disorder that happened outside the Smithing Wall.

He was still an outsider in the Beast King Sect, after all. Moreover, Xu Feiyu was not a direct threat to him, hence nobody used the scandal of internal strife in the sect to fawn over him.

Having said that, he soon realized that he had lesser neighbors.

It seemed like someone had secretly arranged to evacuate the people around his courtyard. It was done very discreetly but there used to be many people around, thus the secret could not be kept from him.

Needless to say, Ou Yangming would not ask anyone about it. In fact, he was quite satisfied with the arrangement.

He would somewhat benefit from not having those strange neighbors, whom he never greeted. At the very least, it would be relatively easy for him to find a quiet and peaceful environment.

After studying the dragon shield, Ou Yangming began to cultivate his martial arts and secret spiritual techniques.

He had discovered them from the memories of the Phoenixes, so they were considered top-notch; even the techniques from the Beast King Sect's hidden place could not be mentioned on equal terms with them.

When Ou Yangming stopped after a day, he heard from Big Yellow that Tian Yinghao had returned.

He arrived at the main hall and had just let Tian Yinghao in when the man retrieved an interspatial and said, "Brother Ou, I've sold all of them. These are your spirit ores, so please count them."

Ou Yangming grinned and briefly scanned with his mental conception but was shocked. "Why are there so many of them?"

According to his estimation, if he wanted the interspatial bags to be sold in such a short period, he would be paid much lesser than this.

It was not that the Beast King Sect's disciples were willing to spend on interspatial bags, but normal cultivators could not meet the prices of those bags. While most people wanted interspatial bags, not many of them had sufficient spirit ores to purchase them. As such, they would negotiate during this opportunity, and Tian Yinghao would definitely consider offers if he wanted to sell all of the interspatial bags in a day.

Therefore, Ou Yangming was taken aback when he detected the number of spirit ores in the interspatial bag.

Instead of a lower number of spirit ores, there were many more of them. Ou Yangming was surprised, and he wondered, 'Does the Beast King Sect have so many rich members?'

"Brother Ou, I've handed the interspatial bags to the sect's depot." Tian Yinghao chuckled and paused for a while. He was afraid that the young fellow would be unhappy, so he added, "That was Sect Elder Peng Yanbing's instruction, and he distributed the interspatial bags according to your request but…" He frowned and was hesitant to continue.

"But what?" Ou Yangming questioned angrily.

"Ah, I don't know what Sect Elder was thinking. I brought the interspatial bags to the Smithing Hall, but he gave them out to the somewhat reputable powerhouses in the sect!" Tian Yinghao was indignant.

Ou Yangming was slightly moved. It turned out the Beast King Sect was already starting to make preparations.

Being threatened by the Insects, it would only be natural for powerhouses with combat powers to obtain spirit ores and practice with them.

This way, the sect's war potential could be unleashed, which would increase their success rate.

Of course, regardless of the outcome, there would be casualties among those that would fight. On the other hand, blacksmiths, who would be in charge of the defense, would be extremely safe and would almost not be harmed.

Under the circumstances, even if Peng Yanbing had gone cuckoo, he would not distribute the interspatial bags to the blacksmiths.

Ou Yangming grinned and remarked, "Perhaps Sect Elder Peng has a plan, so don't complain about it."

Tian Yinghao was struck dumb for a while. He suddenly lowered his voice and asked, "Brother Ou, did you hear about something?"

"What?" Ou Yangming was puzzled.

Tian Yinghao was hesitant, but he soon expressed his speculation, "Judging from what Sect Elder did, where he was biased toward the combatants, do you think that a war is going to break out?" He sighed and continued, "I asked my senior brothers and junior brothers in combat, but they won't tell me anything at all."

Ou Yangming sighed and shook his head. Even though Yuqi the Venerable One had tried his best to hide the truth to not affect the lives of the ordinary people in the sect, the people were still affected to a certain level due to the transfer of resources and the gathering of combatants.

Even from the slightest hints, the others could sense that a war was coming.

The young fellow reached out to tap Tian Yinghao's shoulder gently and said, "Brother Tian, no matter what happens, you only need to do what you're supposed to do."

"I know. Ah, a war of such a level hasn't taken place in our sect for years, so the people are anxious. That said…" Tian Yinghao forced a smile. He gritted his teeth and uttered, "I believe that our sect will be victorious in the end. No matter what comes at us, we'll make sure they won't be able to leave at all!"

Ou Yangming nodded. This was how confident the Humans' Nine Great Sects ought to be.

As long as the Beast King Sect kept up the momentum, they would not crumble no matter how hard they would be impacted.

'Alas, the Beast King Sect's only being dragged into a war because of me. If Tian Yinghao finds out about it, will he still want to be so close to me?'