"Hmm!?"
Tian Tian noticed something was wrong too. She took a small bottle from her arms.
It looked as though the bottle was filled with fireflies, their lights blinking in a steady rhythm. Then it floated out of her hand and toward the pitch-black forest, like a lamp leading the way.
"What's going on!?"
Tian Tian's little head was full of question marks.
The bottle had been a spoils of war Qin Feng acquired when he led his troops to destroy the grassland Esoteric Sect. It eventually fell into her hands, and she discovered that it contained the Treasure Bottle Great Scripture's inheritance. Since it could improve her constitution, she had kept it with her ever since.
But she had carried it around for years, and it had never done anything like this.
"Hmm!?"
Tian Tian hesitated for a moment, then chose to follow it.
Meanwhile, the people gathered around the campfire didn't think there was any danger in going to fetch firewood. They were busy eating meat and drinking, and didn't notice Tian Tian following the bottle.
Before long—
Tian Tian followed the bottle to a large tree.
It stood quietly in the forest, but its bark had long since lost its life, growing cracked and rough. Its branches twisted and bent, its leaves had long since withered, and the marks of age covered its entire body.
"My kin, you've finally come!"
A frail, ancient voice suddenly rang out, and a faint light glimmered from the withered tree.
"Who's there!?"
Tian Tian's heart leapt into her throat. She hurriedly activated the bracelet on her wrist.
She wore the Seven-Star Bracelet Qin Feng had refined. When activated, it shone with seven different colors and released a terrifying suction force that could absorb the essence of all things and use it