Ye Wen followed Li Mo through the primeval forest, stumbling over roots and rocks. Demonic Beasts kept appearing from nowhere to attack them. This was nothing like Black Emperor's territory.
There had been barely any Demonic Beasts in Black Emperor's territory. Ye Wen remembered the last time he had carried Black Emperor around: quite a few Demonic Beasts had shown up, but compared with this place, there had been hardly any in Black Cat's territory.
The Demonic Beasts in Black Emperor's territory seemed to have no fight in them.
Exactly—they had no fight in them. They had seen their leader, Black Emperor, being carried around by Ye Wen, and every last one of them had run off.
But the Demonic Beasts here launched themselves at Ye Wen and Li Mo without a thought for their own lives.
This time, Ye Wen held nothing back. He killed every Demonic Beast that attacked him and dug out its Monster Core.
Ye Wen was worried they might run back and alert the others. If that happened, he and Li Mo would be walking straight into a trap!
So Ye Wen killed every Demonic Beast they encountered, making sure none could run back and raise the alarm.
The forest was thick with trees, and even the weeds grew several meters tall. Walking through woods like these, Ye Wen felt terribly oppressed.
Towering trees surrounded them on all sides. He couldn't help feeling as tiny as a little rabbit. In a place like this, people hardly seemed to exist at all!
He didn't know how long they had been walking, and Li Mo had lost the way, too. He had never been here before, after all. The two of them awkwardly realized they were lost!
Just as they were at a loss, a Great Lion