As she fled, the sparse, barren forest of bloodsucking trees appeared not far ahead.
Xu Chunniang summoned a wisp of Netherflame. Sensing danger, the bloodsucking trees immediately behaved themselves, not daring to act rashly.
She released her Demonic Thought to cover the entire forest, tossing out formation materials one after another as she calmly set up an array.
An incense stick's worth of time soon passed, and the monkey-tailed male cultivator appeared outside the bloodsucking forest.
At the sight of those loathsome dark-brown trees, disgust flashed through his eyes.
Bloodsucking trees were not particularly strong, comparable to cultivators at the early or middle Spirit Transformation Stage. Yet there were simply too many of them—whenever they appeared, they came in groups of dozens or hundreds.
What was even more irritating was that killing these things brought no benefit.
The demonic qi contained within bloodsucking trees was pitifully scarce, yet their vitality was exceptionally tenacious, making them difficult to kill completely.
Wasting demonic qi to kill such things was utterly not worth the cost.
The monkey-tailed male cultivator recalled how, when he had still been weak, he had suffered greatly at the hands of bloodsucking trees.
But now, these bloodsucking trees were a whole major realm beneath him. He only needed to reveal a trace of his Demonic Thought to intimidate them, and they would know when to retreat.
Watching the bloodsucking trees ahead sense his presence and grow wildly, the monkey-tailed demonic cultivator released his Demonic Thought, crushing down upon them.
Yet the bloodsucking trees seemed unable to sense the pressure in his Demonic Thought at all. They actually ignored it completely, driving their branches toward him.
"You're courting death!"
The monkey-tailed male cultivator's face darkened. With a wave of his hand, he sent forth a thick surge of demonic qi