"What if it's a trap?" Rocky asked doubtfully.
"I don't think so. I've already inquired about it before I came here. Many of the clan leaders of the
spiritual race have been invited by the Heavenly Demon Clan to this meeting, including the leaders of
several high-level spiritual race clans. The leaders of the Phoenix Master Clan and the Wood Clan are
both among them. Although the Heavenly Demon Clan must have some ulterior motives, I don't think
that it will be a trap," said Marcia.
A short silence ensued as Rocky thought about whether he'd like to go or not. Finally, he nodded to
himself and said, "If that's the case, then I don't mind participating. Let me see what the Heavenly
Demon Clan is up to!"
"I'll go with you," volunteered Marcia immediately. It was expected, of course, because she would not
let Rocky take that risk alone.
The spiritual race's meeting would be held in two days, so Rocky and Marcia immediately set out to the
place where the meeting would be held—the Divine Burial Valley.
The valley was inside the territory of the Heavenly Demon Clan. It was spring all year round there, so
plenty of flowers and plants were always blooming. Magnificent buildings also added elegance and
grandness to the place, making the valley an enchanting sight to behold. Clearly, the Heavenly Demon
Clan knew how to enjoy life.
As soon as Rocky and Marcia arrived at the valley, the Heavenly Demon Clan's ordinary spiritual
beings came to greet them. They led the two of them to the group of buildings in the valley, where they
stopped in a magnificent hall.
When Rocky and Marcia entered the hall, they saw that it was filled with figures from various clans of
the spiritual race. There were about twenty to thirty of them, and each one exuded a strong aura that
belonged to the spiritual masters'. On closer look, the pair identified all of them as leaders of several
spiritual race clans invited by the Heavenly Demon Clan this time. Except for a few advanced spiritual
race clans, the rest were the leaders of secondary spiritual race clans. The patriarch of the Wood Clan
and Jill, the Phoenix Master Clan's matriarch, were also among them.
And when Jill saw Rocky and Marcia enter the hall, she immediately jumped up from her seat and
greeted them with a charming smile. "I didn't know Prince Crimson would present as well!"
The other patriarchs in the hall were also very surprised to see Jill so enthusiastic. As a matriarch of an
advanced spiritual race clan, she was favored and admired by countless big shots of the spiritual race,
including those patriarchs. However, she had always acted disdainfully towards them. They had never
seen her so enthusiastic like she was with this human, which naturally made them jealous.
The patriarchs present could not help but look Rocky up and down, sizing him up with no discretion.
Upon closer look, they immediately figured out who Rocky was. They thought that he must be the
mysterious Prince Crimson of the Holy Dragon Empire who had removed the curse on Marcia and
Alyssa and who had just obtained the last spiritual treasure not long ago.
"Hello, Matriarch Jill..." Rocky greeted her politely.
"I heard that you got the last spiritual treasure?" Jill asked with concern.
Rocky nodded with a faint smile on his face.
"I see. Well, you must be careful. I'm sure that many spiritual race clans have designs on you," Jill
reminded him in a low voice while she discretely looked around at the other people in the hall.
Rocky also turned around and saw that most of the patriarchs of the spiritual race clans were staring at
him with intense hostility as if they wanted to swallow him alive.
But he quickly turned a blind eye to them and sat down next to Marcia.
At that moment, a towering, dignified figure walked into the hall under everyone's admiring gaze.
The patriarchs' eyes were also focused on this figure. This person was Townsend, the Heavenly
Demon Clan's patriarch, and he was the person responsible for calling this meeting. He had sent the
other spiritual race clans invitations so that they would join.
As soon as Townsend came in, his bright eyes immediately fell on Rocky, and a strange look flashed
through his eyes. He continued walking forward as if he had seen nothing, motioned for the patriarchs
to take their seats, and then sat down himself.
"I think you all know why I gathered you here this time. At present, the Wild Spirit Land is suffering from
the scourge of the nine calamity beasts, and the people are living in misery and restlessness. Many
spiritual race clans are plagued. If it goes on like this, the Wild Spirit Land will be desolate sooner or
later. I primarily held this meeting for the sake of the Wild Spirit Land and the future of our spiritual race.
I hope that all the spiritual race clans can unite to deal with the calamity beasts and seal them again so
that the Wild Spirit Land can be peaceful once again," Townsend said seriously. At that point, he was
playing his part well. He sounded almost righteous with that speech, which was very far from the truth.
Unfortunately, nobody knew that he was the one to blame for everything. After all, he had started the
chaos in the Wild Spirit Land, the fight for spiritual treasures, and the calamity beasts' rebirth.
Hearing this, the patriarchs present all looked at each other with varying expressions.
"Patriarch Townsend, the calamity beasts are very powerful, and there are nine of them. Even if all the
spiritual race clans unite together, we may not be able to deal with them all..." "Dealing with the
calamity beasts is no different from suicide.
Why should we sacrifice our lives to kill them?"
"That's right. We are just small spiritual race clans who don't even have a spiritual treasure. We don't
have the power needed to deal with the calamity beasts. If they really need to be killed, your Heavenly
Demon Clan and the other advanced spiritual race clans with spiritual treasures should be the ones to
fight them..."
Soon, many patriarchs of the secondary spiritual race clans voiced their discontent with his plan. It
seemed that they didn't want to get involved in any trouble.
"We Heavenly Demon Clan held this meeting to call on the union of all the spiritual race clans to fight
against the calamity beasts. Of course, we also feel responsible for killing them, and you can rest
assured that we will go all out. In fact, we, the Heavenly Demon Clan, have been well prepared. We are
ready to fight against the calamity beasts at any time. Now, it's up to you to decide whether you will join
us!" Townsend said with great confidence.
"Patriarch Townsend, it's easy for you to say that. Although I don't oppose the plan of gathering the
spiritual race' power to fight against the calamity beasts, you should at least make it clear how to deal
with them, right?" Jill said coldly. Last time, the Phoenix Master Clan almost lost their legendary
guardian beast because of the most powerful ancient demonic beast. Obviously, Townsend was behind
all this. Unfortunately, she had no evidence, so she could do nothing to the Heavenly Demon Clan. If
this meeting weren't held to deal with the calamity beasts that had already done harm to the Wild Spirit
Land, she wouldn't have been willing to have anything to do with the clan.
"To deal with the calamity beasts, we need to have the power to resist them. But the power of our
spiritual race is far from enough, so I hoped to gather the power of nine spiritual treasures to deal with
them..." Townsend said calmly.
"You must be kidding, Patriarch Townsend. You know it's impossible. The spiritual treasures are crucial
to any spiritual race clan. It's not something that anyone would take out easily," the Ghost Master
Clan's patriarch protested at once. After all, once anyone took out a spiritual treasure, it would attract
the attention of the other spiritual race clans who didn't have a spiritual treasure. If there was any
spiritual race clan who had ill intentions, it would be very dangerous for the person or the clan who held
the spiritual treasure.
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