Fang Xiao did not dwell on the matter.
After all, River Daoist was attacking from outside, while an unknown "Zhang Baichuan" lurked within.
Changes in the Great Spring Forbidden Zone and unusual movements from the Tree Slaves were still within the realm of understanding.
Besides, what did any of that have to do with him? The Incomplete Innate Treasure was his only goal.
Without the Tree Slaves harassing him, Fang Xiao used the Great Five Elements Escape Arts in tandem with continuous shifts, moving at an utterly astonishing speed.
The massive main body of Great Chun was already visible in the distance.
He could only keep hoping that no further twists would arise along the way.
Yet Fang Xiao's luck seemed to have run out. The change that was bound to come had finally arrived.
His escaping light subsided, and his figure gradually emerged.
"Fuck, did they really have to go this far?"
Fang Xiao stared at the scene before him, his face filled with disbelief.
The closer one came to Great Chun's main body, the fewer miscellaneous plants and trees there were.
Now, he could see the end of the path at a glance.
But what he saw was neither the corpse of that Mahayana Stage cultivator nor the Incomplete Innate Treasure.
Instead, it was a mass of half-tree men, shoulder to shoulder, packed tightly together.
No wonder he had not seen a single Tree Slave along the way.
So they had all been gathered here.
Logically speaking, with an external enemy invading, gathering the Tree Slaves here to guard the core region was perfectly normal.
But given Great Chun's overwhelming strength, the core region should have been even more dangerous. Did it really need Tree Slaves specifically to guard it?
Moreover, Great Chun possessed no intelligence and acted