At that moment, Gui Mei's voice sounded beside Niu Butong's ear:
"How much farther?"
His voice was hoarse and icy, like a block of eternal ice striking Niu Butong's eardrums. A chill suddenly spread from head to toe, making him shudder involuntarily.
Niu Butong roughly gauged the direction and hurriedly replied:
"Your Excellency Ghost Douluo, once we pass that hill ahead, we'll be there. It's about two kilometers away. Quite a few Soft Bone Rabbits live there. Yesterday, we were attacked while hunting a thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit there."
"Mm." Gui Mei nodded, lowered his flight altitude, landed beneath the dense forest canopy, and began leaping through the trees.
A moment later, carrying Niu Butong, he stopped atop a towering tree.
Niu Butong pointed at an open patch below and said:
"Your Excellency Ghost Douluo, it's here."
From within his black robes, Gui Mei's eyes swept over the area below.
The ground was a complete mess, clearly showing signs of battle. Numerous Spirit Beast carcasses lay scattered about, presumably beasts that had died in the fight.
A day had passed, and the flesh and blood on the Spirit Beast corpses had already been picked clean by the forest's other beasts, leaving behind only a few bones.
Gui Mei asked coldly:
"Where did the little girl riding a rabbit appear?"
"Over there." Niu Butong pointed toward a relatively concealed clump of grass.
"Wait here."
Gui Mei coldly tossed out those words before his figure flashed away.
Gui Mei landed instantly amid the hidden grass. Then, dense Spiritual Power surged from beneath his black robes as he carefully sensed the surrounding traces.
Before long, Gui Mei discovered an exceedingly dense Spirit Beast aura.
This aura was utterly out of place with its surroundings and differed from the lingering auras of the hundred-year