Fang Xiao did not care about the specifics.
He only wanted to capture a Tree Slave as soon as possible and test his hypothesis.
To that end, Fang Xiao had even deliberately caused a major commotion, hoping to draw a Tree Slave over.
Yet before he could find one, he stopped in his tracks.
A chill had suddenly risen in his heart for no apparent reason.
Looking around, the grass and trees trembled, the flowers drew inward, as though they had all foreseen an immense crisis.
An ordinary person could only sense the threat, unable to tell where that oppressive force came from.
But Fang Xiao was different.
As a Sword Cultivator, he was all too familiar with this feeling.
"Sword intent? So powerful! As expected of a Mahayana Stage existence."
Before Fang Xiao could finish speaking, an immense boom pierced through the clouds.
Heaven and earth themselves paled.
Then Fang Xiao saw it.
Far in the distance, a corner of Great Chun's canopy was sliced off by a towering giant sword.
Naturally, Fang Xiao knew who had acted. It was River Daoist.
The reason he knew was simple.
Fang Xiao had not entered the Great Spring Forbidden Zone silently.
Instead, he had deliberately left traces behind and made it known that the Heavenly Sword Mountain Inheritance was in his possession.
He wanted to lure River Daoist over.
He simply had not expected River Daoist to arrive so quickly—and act so ruthlessly.
Even Great Chun, which many Mahayana Stage cultivators deeply feared, had been attacked without the slightest hesitation.
That alone showed how powerful River Daoist's obsession was.
This time, he was determined to obtain the Heavenly Sword Mountain Inheritance.
Fang Xiao's reason for baiting River Daoist, however, was not to seek his own death.
His goal was simple: he