Sunset Forest was dense with towering ancient trees that blotted out the sun.
Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong concealed their auras and chose to travel on foot. Flying over a forest teeming with Soul Beasts would be no different from painting a target on themselves.
"Hold on tight."
Huo Yuhao grabbed Wang Dong's hand. Silver light flashed beneath his feet as Dawn's Edge activated. The two turned into streaks of light, darting through the dense woods at astonishing speed, yet without making a sound.
Spiritual Detection spread out like a tide. Nothing within several miles could escape Huo Yuhao's perception.
Half an hour later.
"Found it." Huo Yuhao came to a sudden stop, fixing his gaze ahead.
A faint mist shrouded the area. It looked ordinary, but held an eerie stillness that sent a chill through the heart. The farther in they went, the thicker the mist became, and its color gradually turned strange.
"This place?" Wang Dong frowned and covered her nose in disgust. "Could there really be an Immortal Herb in a creepy place like this? Looks more like poisonous weeds to me."
Huo Yuhao looked at the spreading miasma and gave a cold smile. His words carried a pointed edge. "Maybe some selfish person set up a poisonous formation to keep outsiders away and monopolize this treasure trove. Unfortunately, after ten thousand years, the formation hasn't dissipated. It's been evaporating and spreading instead, killing or driving away the Soul Beasts in Sunset Forest. The ones left are barely alive."
He paused, his voice laced with sarcasm. "Give it another thousand years or so, and the entire Sunset Forest will probably become a wasteland. To cause such slaughter for one's own selfish desires... Tsk, truly 'pure and immaculate.'"
Wang Dong listened, wide-eyed. She had no idea who Huo