Having witnessed the Corpse-Top Tree devour a demon tiger with his own eyes, the wild boar demon could not help shuddering. In an unconfident voice, he said, "L-Lu, Brother Lu, how about we retreat?"
"Once the bowstring is drawn, there's no arrow that can be turned back. We've already come this far—how could we beat a retreat now?" Lu Xiaotian said with a smile. "It was merely a Spirit Transformation Realm demon tiger that perished. Was that enough to scare you witless?"
"There are plenty of Corpse-Top Trees in the Divine Void Realm inside," Pig Seven, the wild boar demon, muttered.
"If you want to go back, go back yourself. I'm going to find the secret of the Primordial Magnetism Stone." Lu Xiaotian shrugged. Having come this far, he naturally could not turn around and go home. The Corpse-Top Trees were formidable, but their key advantage lay in the suddenness of their ambushes. These Corpse-Top Trees could move, though very slowly. Only when they had gone a long time without hunting enough food would they spend the effort to relocate elsewhere. Normally, moving a dozen or so miles took one or two days—it was no exaggeration to call it tortoise speed. As long as one survived the Corpse-Top Tree's ambush and swiftly withdrew, there would be no great danger.
"How about we fly over?" the wild boar demon suggested again.
"Have you forgotten the trouble we got into last time?" Lu Xiaotian said irritably. He and the wild boar demon had previously flown through the air for a stretch. There were also some extremely powerful demon birds in this Gloomy Demon Mound. Among them, the Blue-Plumed Cranes were exceptionally formidable. They usually traveled in groups of a dozen or even several dozen. These Blue-Plumed Cranes were exceedingly skilled at concealment,