Chapter 266: Chapter 266: Chasing Xiao Hei, Discovering the Tree Demon!

"You just said Xiao Hei could go, and now..."

Lu Chen anxiously asked, only to be interrupted by the Jingyu Bottle, "I couldn’t feel it before either, but the aura of spiritual power has gotten a bit stronger now. Only those at the Core Formation Stage could possibly have it!"

"Are you sure?"

Lu Chen forced himself to stabilize his emotions, knowing that cultivators at the Core Formation Stage have spiritual sense and could easily detect Xiao Hei!

He had originally thought that ordinary cultivators would not easily discover Xiao Hei, and that demonic beasts might not care about a shrunken Xiao Hei either.

But if it were someone at the Core Formation Stage...

Who else could appear here at the Core Formation Stage?

Naturally, it was the Xuanji Sect Master who was hot on their trail!

This person is extremely crafty and ruthless; Lu Chen did not want anything to happen to Xiao Hei!

"It’s not necessarily going to happen," said the Jingyu Bottle, seeing how nervous Lu Chen was, and hurriedly added, "There’s just a very high possibility! In this Tianyuan, there is a suppression on cultivators’ stages, and it can only reach up to the Core Formation Stage at most! Thus, even though this place is rich in treasures, no cultivators above Core Formation have ever come here. It’s because some Nascent Soul cultivators fear that their stages will be limited and thereby end up being killed by cultivators originally weaker than themselves!"

"But there are those at the Core Formation Stage who have come all the same."

The Jingyu Bottle sighed and said, "There are always exceptions, but honestly, ordinary Core Formation Stage cultivators would not come here. After the opening of the Tianyuan, most people are here for treasure hunting. And the treasures here are basically enough for those at the Foundation Establishment Stage. Ordinary sects consider those at the Foundation Establishment Stage their main force and wouldn’t send them out, while powerful sects do not need to send people themselves; they will have ordinary sects offer up the treasures found here. So you don’t need to be too worried!"

"But I encountered two at the Core Formation!"

Lu Chen couldn’t help but think of Li Qingyao again!

If it weren’t for Li Qingyao’s sudden appearance to help him escape the encirclement, and his own quick reaction to flee decisively, he would have had no chance of survival!

But no matter what, Lu Chen could never have imagined that the person who saved him was his own birth mother!

And now, considering that the Xuanji Sect Master had also reached this wood-element formation gap, it seemed that the next encounter would be his end!

"So you see, you need to infuse as much spiritual power into my bottle as possible right now, just in case!"

Lu Chen couldn’t help but worry and said, "But Xiao Hei..."

"You can let me absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth on my own here; you should go ahead and bring back Xiao Hei!"

That was the Jingyu Bottle’s suggestion.

"Wouldn’t that mean... someone else could pick you up?"

Hearing this, the Jingyu Bottle couldn’t help but feel a mix of frustration and amusement, "If it were before, it might have been possible. But now that I have been imbued with your essence blood, unless it’s a cultivator above Foundation Establishment who snatches me, ordinary cultivators really don’t stand a chance! Besides, if you’re really not at ease, just bury me under a tree. I can use the tree to attract spirit and will be even less likely to be discovered!"

"Is that so?"

Although Lu Chen was skeptical in his heart, he also knew he could not delay any longer lest Xiao Hei be discovered by the Xuanji Sect Master.

After hesitating for a moment, he followed Jingyu Bottle’s instructions and found a tree that looked the most vigorous, buried it, and then chased in the direction from which Xiao Hei had left without stopping for a moment.

In theory, his Hateful Heaven Pupil Technique should afford him clairvoyance.

But the problem was that, in this dense forest, he could only see what was in front of him, which Lu Chen found utterly baffling.

With no time to concern himself with much else, Lu Chen could only use his Pupil Skill to look at the ground, where he could faintly make out the traces left behind by Xiao Hei’s crawling.

But Xiao Hei was fast.

Lu Chen pursued for a full hour.

He did not see Xiao Hei, but what he found was a clear open space!

On the open space, the Xuanji Sect Master stood on top of a felled tree with a chilly look in his eyes!

Lu Chen paused, taken aback. Could the fight earlier have been the Xuanji Sect Master chopping down trees?

But when his gaze fell on the felled tree, his expression changed once again!

It turned out...

It was a tree spirit, not much different from the surrounding trees!

Could it be that where he passed, there were tree spirits everywhere?

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by Aunomay Read