Mutated beasts were usually not interested in ores, but this was not absolute. For example, a mutated beast like the Blazing Golden Crow that was breaking through was an exception.
As wild mutated beasts did not have any lords to provide them with materials, they could only collect them themselves when they were preparing to break through. It was also an instinctive reaction of mutated beasts.
Although Wang Xiao had long known about this, because he had never seen such a situation, he did not think in this direction at first. It was only when Zhou Xiruo said that the Blazing Golden Crow was afraid of death that he suddenly had this guess.
The growth and breakthrough of wild mutated beasts had to rely on their own efforts. Even if they were not usually afraid of death, they would still prioritize saving their lives at the critical stage of breaking through. After all, no one wanted their efforts to be wasted.