The Blood Demon Appeared, Luo Chen Struck

In the mountain forest.

A figure flew low over the ground at an unhurried pace.

He held a jade pendant, checking his bearings from time to time.

Luo Chen had discovered that the terrain of the Ninth Mountain was extraordinarily convoluted.

The natural environment seemed excellent, yet few demonic beasts or wild creatures lived there.

That was probably due to the thunderstorms that broke out now and then.

In just a few days on the mountain, he had encountered two!

They had only been small thunderstorms, but their lightning posed a grave threat even to Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

Luo Chen knew his body was tough, but he had no desire to test it against lightning.

If that had been all, it would have been manageable.

But after entering the Ninth Mountain, he found that his Spiritual Sense was severely suppressed.

With his formidable Divine Soul Foundation, his Spiritual Sense could normally reach more than a dozen miles away.

Here, it reached only seven or eight miles—worse than being cut in half.

Even the Sound Transmission Jade Pendant's thousand-mile range had shrunk to three or four hundred miles.

That was why he still had not found Wang Yuan after so long on the mountain.

Still!

His search had not been entirely fruitless.

Luo Chen had mastered the Cleanse Spell, which could remove foreign traces. Years of using it had made him highly sensitive to all sorts of auras.

At several bloodstained sites, he had found traces Wang Yuan had left behind!

He followed those traces, searching on and on.

But after making a wide circuit, he realized he seemed to be going in circles.

All that effort had come to nothing.

"What a strange route!"

"Wasn't Brother Wang being hunted? Why does his route look like he's circling the outskirts of