Veronica spoke with a sad sigh, "Long Yu I am sorry to tell you this but unfortunately both of them are dead. The man succumbed to his injuries and the woman shortly committed suicide in order to expunge her shame from suffering such dishonor by the hands of those scoundrels, we are sorry even after you asked we failed to save them.", she spoke in a somber tone as she bowed her head.
Long Yu's face scrunched up in frown: "Veronica, I trust you all to know you all did everything in your power to protect them and keep them safe, so please raise your head and what of their body."
Bashista: "We gave them proper funeral."
Long Yu gritted his teeth even after some time has passed since he had cleansed the world of such filth it still made him angry thinking about those scum in human form as well as he felt sad as he was ultimately unable to save the guy and girl, and once again he felt angry at himself even after so many years had passed he is still the weakling who let his mother get bullied and pushed around, even if he became a cultivator he still failed to save the two strangers he failed to save all those people in the forest biome. Suddenly he felt someone hugging him, he turned around to see Jessie hugging him with a kind smile, "Oi brat what are thinking hard, not many people has the courage to do what you did you should be proud of yourself, those two were grateful to you so much so that they called you 'Reincarnation of Heaven's will', who saved them from those crooks hands. I know what you are feeling I also feel more of a failure at least you did something where as we even failed to save them after you went and rescued them, thus I made up my mind to up my training so that the same thing does not occur again."
Long Yu: "Thank Big Sis Jessie I needed that and you are right next time we won't fail I will work hard to be much stronger.", he gave a bright smile to her who just felt a light headed, she just turned her head as she blushed. Long Yu narrowed his eyes since he entered the ruins any female and sometimes even males when in close contact are acting weird, making him sometimes get away as far as possible from them, he will have to ask his masters about it, another thing added to the long list of things he has to ask his masters after he returns back home.
They all decided to attempt another run next day as they decided to take a rest after the blood boiling experience that day.
Long Yu noticed that they had a few extra space bags with them, Helen was opening them as the others sat around her inspecting the contents of the space bags, he idly wondered, 'Where did they find so many space bags?'
As they piled the contents ranging from medicinal plants, weapons, alchemy kits, talismans, various medicinal pills, and even some manuals of techniques and skills.
The group inspected the contents one by one until, Ayesha," Hey Long Yu can you help me identify some of the pills I know most of them but there are a few that are unknown to me."
Long Yu: "Of course Sister Ayesha show me this pills."
A small pile of different types of pills appeared in front of him and he started identifying them, "Let me see hmmm, this yellow color pill is paralyzing pill, this pink one is aphrodisiac, this green one is berserker pill, this black one is a poisonous pill, and this red one…..", Long Yu looked at it with wide eye then with a shriek he threw the pill away his face turned into one of utter revulsion, while he tried to scrub his hand, as if trying to get rid of some invisible dirt, so hard that his skin turned red and was about to peel off.
The others were startled at that as they themselves stepped away from any pill that looked like that, Han quickly held Long Yu's hands as he spoke in his unique way, "LONG YU STOP CALM".
Tina rubbed his back trying to calm him down, "Brother please calm down what are those pills why are acting like that."
Long Yu looked towards those red pills with utter revulsion he just wanted to hurl the content of his stomach at the site of those pills he took a deep breath as he explained to others why he reacted like that, "Those pills are name 'Ascending Heaven Pills', these pills enable anyone below immortal level easily increase in rank and realm just a few pills will increase your rank to next level…",
Before he could speak anymore Rong Niu interrupted him, "Really such a miraculous pill exists I think we should divide it amongst us if it helps increase in our realm faster, I am all for it.", she spoke with greed clearly visible in her eyes, although a few of them were wary if Long Yu acted like that it means something is fishy.
Long yu just laughed mirthless at her, "You want to consume that then please go ahead but do you know what the main ingredients is used to make the pills?"
Rong Niu shook her head, meanwhile Ayesha had alarms ringing inside her head last time Long Yu stopped them from eating something it turned to be a very poisonous fruit, but now the way he was acting she gulped hard at the thought of how terrible the ingredient might be, she gathered her courage as she asked Long Yu, "Brother Long Yu last time you warned us about something it turned out to be a very poisonous fruit is it the same this time."
Long Yu shook his head negatively, "No no it is nothing poisonous", many heaved a sigh of relief at that as they made plans to acquire at least a couple for themselves only for their hopes to be dashed as the horrible truth reared his head at them, "The main ingredient for those pills are alive pregnant human females, even after hearing that if you want them then please feel free to do so but you will leave this hideout immediately I will not tolerate any demonic cultivator taking shelter with me."
Everyone was alarmed at that some of them with great strength pushed down the vomit that was trying to escape from their mouth.
Helen: "How do you know about it?"
Long Yu: "My master taught me many things among those I was taught how to identify demonic pills such as this. I would like to warn you that if you are caught using or carrying such pills any righteous sect city or kingdom would kill you on sight if you are lucky and if you are unlucky there are many things that are far scarier than simple death."
Long Yu: "There is something I wanted to ask you if you all do not mind, where did you find these pills?"
Ruth: "These space bags belong to the scum you killed today."
Long Yu frowned as he rubbed his chins in deep thought, "Is there any way to identify who these people were."
Kyouki: "Well from inside the space bags we found command badges signifying the owner to Prince of 'Yulan Empire', it is far away from my sect but from what I know it has multiple immortals who are protectors and both the Empress and Emperor are the strongest people inside the Empire and they are both at peak immortal level, we will have to destroy this things otherwise if they trace it back to us it will spell our doom I do not believe any of our sect is powerful enough to survive the onslaught of the empire.", many agreed with her.
Long Yu: "These pills, was it found in the space bag of the so called prince?"
Jack:" Well the prince had the highest amount among others who only had one or two whereas he had the dozens."
Long Yu: "Hmmm that means he is a demonic cultivator oh well, I just have to inform my teacher about 'Yulan Empire', my teacher has an intense dislike for such demonic cultivators as such my teacher surely will take care of them."
Ryofu looking concerned spoke out, "Long Yu please listen to reason they not only have multiple Immortal practitioners as Royal Protectors the Emperor and Empress are peak level Immortal and if they learn about their son's death they will attack you and your family and kill all of them."
Long Yu just gave a grateful smile on hearing her concern, "Thank You for your concern but believe me my master takes action then they would not be able to hold a candle against my master, as even Immortals themselves are not only unqualified but are also so weak compared to my master that they might not even be qualified to work as janitor in the servant's quarter of my master's home. So please relax it will be fine as the wicked will be punished."
The others were stunned at that hearing that, it terrified them thinking about Long Yu's background making them feel sorry about any fool who might want to seek him out for revenge, meanwhile Long Yu himself knew how immeasurable the strength of his masters are after all how many can claim that they can kill 'Celestial Immortals', who are a few realms above these Immortals of this world with just a single word.
He took the command badge as he planned to hand it over to one of his elder sisters, who surely would take care of those scum.
Bashista: "Well if you all have finished tiding up everything then I believe it is high time for us to catch some much needed sleep as tomorrow will be a very long day and I want everyone to be fully refreshed and at full strength."
Everyone nodded at that although it would take some time for them to fall asleep specially after hearing such disgusting facts and some even had nightmare of the horrible events and facts they learned that day.
Meanwhile back in Ayindril,
Veena: "I think it is time for us to turn in for tonight, tomorrow will be a big day, also Shamiran send some of your Wojownik Cienia to investigate about the source of those 'Ascending Heaven Pills' and deal with them accordingly. My disciple is right such scum should be brought to justice.", she ordered Shamiran as her eyes shown with righteous anger.
Shamiran just gave a nod towards her.