"I wonder how Little One and the others are doing." Bai Yixin slipped stealthily out of another nest. Ignoring the carnage the nest's rightful owners would unleash when they came home and discovered it had been robbed, he murmured to himself.
Bai Yixin was hurrying toward the place he had agreed to meet Huo Ling'er. He figured that once Little One realized he wasn't where he'd been before, he would head there to look for him.
It took Bai Yixin most of the day to reach the agreed meeting place, but aside from a scene of utter devastation, he saw nothing.
If Bai Yixin hadn't kept wandering into all sorts of strange and dangerous places, like abysses, he would have arrived long ago.
"What a mess. I hope Little One and Huo Ling'er are all right." Bai Yixin sounded uncertain.
"Roar..."
A scream rang out as the distant mountains shook. An exceedingly powerful genius had met his end there, devoured by a Five-Colored Peacock.
Besides the Five-Colored Peacock, Bai Yixin had also spotted several other terrifying creatures: a Golden-Winged Peng, a Black Hou, a Green-Eyed Golden-Pupil Beast, a Crimson Python Bull, and an Iron-Blood Ancient Tree...
The strongest among them was a golden Monkey King.
Deep in these mountains lay a Pure Land, occupied by a troop of monkeys led by the Divine Monkey King.
There were four Immortal Peach Trees there. After ages of growth, they had gained sentience and transformed, and were on the verge of becoming Sacred Medicine.
Although three of them would eventually turn to ashes to nourish the last one, it seemed certain that a new Sacred Medicine would emerge.
It was precisely because these four peerless Treasures of Medicine were only a hair's breadth away from becoming Sacred Medicine that all the local overlords