In a forest thick with towering Giant Trees.
Bai Yujun carried that cultivator in one hand as she darted rapidly between the massive trees. Occasionally, she stepped on the treetops and raced across the canopy. Flying through the air made her too easy to spot; parkour through the forest concealed her tracks to the greatest extent.
She leaped high again, scattering several leaves!
Both feet aimed at a Giant Tree in the distance as she descended toward a thick, moss-covered branch...
Thud~!
The trunk trembled slightly, shaking down a few green leaves. Bai Yujun stood on the branch with the motion-sick cultivator in her left hand. The male cultivator was rather large while Bai Yujun was petite, making him inconvenient to carry. During the jumps, he inevitably got bumped and battered, and the wild rush had left him dizzy and disoriented.
She grabbed the cultivator and gave him a vigorous shake. His eyes went wide from the rattling.
"D-Don't... don't shake me anymore... I'm going to throw up..."
"Look at the direction."
"It's... it's behind that crescent-shaped gap over there... beneath a red tree, there's a fissure..."
She stopped leaping and slid down the trunk to the ground, cautiously feeling her way forward. Now that they were close, there might be detection spells or traps. Concealment and stealth came first.
She adjusted her sense of smell to its sharpest state, rapidly analyzing the scent particles drifting through the air.
Her vibration sense carefully detected any unusual tremors. Every so often, she would stop and quietly feel the vibrations within the forest.
Most formidable of all was her infrared thermal imaging search. The view before her eyes shifted, and every object became distinguished by its temperature: birds with their scalding blood, beasts with their beating hearts, low-temperature streams. A world unlike