The Scenic Lanruo Temple, Where a Thousand-Year Tree Demon Grandma Ruled a Forest of Her Own!

Lanruo Temple stood three and a half li east of Guo Bei Town, surrounded by dense woods and ancient, shadowy trees. Even beneath the blazing midday sun, the place was beset by chill winds that made people feel inexplicably uneasy.

When Hao Shuai and Xin Shisi Niang stood side by side before the woods, Xin Shisi Niang, herself a demon, couldn't help exclaiming, "Young Master, the demon aura here is so thick!"

"There's a thousand-year-old tree demon here. How could the demon aura not be thick?" Hao Shuai explained.

There was something else Hao Shuai hadn't mentioned: the dense demon aura could even block his Divine Thought.

Well, "block" wasn't quite right~~

His Divine Thought had previously been able to cover several kilometers in every direction, but here it was suppressed to a range of only a few hundred meters.

"Ah~~ But that's a Demon King!! Young Master, should we go around?" Xin Shisi Niang was frightened by Hao Shuai's words. To a novice fox demon like her, who was only at the Golden Core stage, a thousand-year-old Demon King was already at the top of the food chain.

Hao Shuai patted Shisi Niang on the head to reassure her. "It's fine. It's only a thousand-year-old Demon King. Your young master doesn't consider it a threat."

"Besides, I came here specifically for that Demon King. How can we just leave?"

With that, Hao Shuai took Xin Shisi Niang by the hand and stepped into the gloomy woods.

The moment they entered, they were surrounded by dense forest. The trees' gnarled roots and lush branches formed a canopy that blocked out the sunlight. Though the sun had yet to set, the woods were dim and cold, and the air was filled with a faint, rotten stench.

After examining the woods up