"What exotic treasure?"
"Divine Wood Heart!"
???!
!!!!
Qin Shaofeng froze on the spot.
"Divine Wood Heart?!"
Qin Shaofeng's throat suddenly tightened, and even the net of lightning at his fingertips trembled.
The remnant soul was lit transparent by the lightning, desperately clawing at the edge of the lightning net. Hearing his nearly voice-breaking shout, it shook like chaff in a sieve.
Qin Shaofeng crouched down, purple lightning gathering into two clusters in his eyes. "Say that again. Where is the Divine Wood Heart?"
"Heavenly Fiend Forest! It, it's right beneath your feet, mighty one!!!!" the ugly remnant soul screamed. "It's right here!"
Before it could finish, it suddenly sensed that the lightning at Qin Shaofeng's fingertips had changed. Fine threads of lightning, thin as hairs, were slipping through the gaps in the net and burrowing into its soul body. "Don't, don't kill me!..."
"Too noisy." Qin Shaofeng pinched his fingers together, and the lightning threads abruptly exploded.
Before the remnant soul could let out even half a shriek, it instantly turned into specks of firefly light and scattered into the night wind.
As a newcomer here, he could not afford to let down his guard against others. The same went for this remnant soul; if he allowed it to escape, it would likely become a hidden danger...
He rose to his feet, but the lightning in his palm did not dissipate. While that remnant soul had been speaking, several faint footsteps had come from the distant pile of dead leaves, as though someone were deliberately moving on tiptoe.
With senses that had always been sharp, Qin Shaofeng immediately concluded that a group was rushing toward him.
He needed to hide...
The instant the thought arose, he lightly tapped off the ground and shot up onto an ancient pine three