Just as the two were talking, the battle in the distance finally ended. In truth, aside from the enormous killing power of the Frost Condensing Stone at the outset, the remaining scattered snakes and insects had merely bought a little time; they posed no threat at all to the four Innate Limit experts.
Xu Tingyun, Min Tao, Wu Chen, and Peng Haibing rushed beneath the Fire Cloud Tree with murderous aura blazing, using their lightness skills. They had intended to seize the treasures within the Fire Cloud Tree while the two snake ancestors were entangled—this had been discussed and planned beforehand.
Yet when they saw Meng Zhao and Gan Mingfeng, their faces plainly revealed shock and bewilderment.
No, they had spent so much time and energy dealing with minor nuisances. How had Little Meng and Gan Mingfeng reached the tree before them?
What surprised the four even more was that beneath the Fire Cloud Tree were two unmistakable traces left by enormous snakes crawling through the area. Judging by eye, the long tracks had to be more than fifteen meters long, perhaps even reaching twenty meters. They had clearly been left by colossal creatures.
They wound off in a certain direction. They must have been the two snake ancestors truly living in symbiosis with the Fire Cloud Tree.
With their snake descendants throughout the tree having been plotted against and slaughtered, the two would naturally have been alerted.
According to the division of tasks, Meng Zhao should have dealt with these two snake ancestors. Yet the four had not heard any sounds of fierce fighting, only two faint cries resembling a bull's moo.
That was strange. Without the sounds of battle, the matter had already been resolved?
So had Meng Zhao killed those two powerful snake ancestors, or had he