The hoarse, mournful cawing of crows echoed through the secluded ancient forest from time to time.
It was the cry of Dusk Vine Crows.
So-called Dusk Vine Crows were an especially peculiar kind of Demon Spirit.
Their bodies housed two souls.
They were formed from Ghost Vine Wood Spirits and Dusk Crow Demon Beasts.
Ghost vines were formed by absorbing vast amounts of Death Qi. Wherever ghost vines were born, dusk crows would inevitably accompany them.
The two were akin to parasites, yet also seemed to share a symbiotic bond.
When a ghost vine was no longer content to remain trapped in one place, it would lodge its soul within a dusk crow, leave its original location, and travel elsewhere.
That was a true Dusk Vine Crow.
Such beings were extremely dangerous to cultivators. With one careless misstep, one could easily become deeply ensnared in the dusk crow's innate illusion art, Twilight Curtain.
It was said that within Twilight Curtain, those who fell victim to it would watch the sun set again and again, barely noticing the passage of time.
Meanwhile, in the outside world, the cultivator's body would be silently strangled to death by the ghost vine.
Had Luo Chen been alone, he would never have lightly set foot in such a perilous place.
Unless he passed through the Sunken Sea vortex and entered Wood Heaven Plains directly!
Fortunately, things were different now.
With Taisui—formerly one of the three great rulers of Hundred Crow Ghost Forest—leading the way, those dangers were hardly worth mentioning to them.
Luo Chen followed behind Taisui, steadily advancing through the forest.
His gaze occasionally fell upon the thriving ancient trees, and his eyes held no small measure of astonishment.
He discovered that every ancient tree growing within this forest was a rare spiritwood seldom