Li bade farewell to the four and entered the forest alone. Before he had gone very far, he felt an inexplicable pressure arise around him. It was not deliberately directed at him, but rather at the entire forest.
Not long afterward, he noticed many footprints on the ground. They were neither human footprints nor beast tracks, but human footprints enlarged many times over. Some were only half a meter long, while others reached three meters in length.
Li frowned. A footprint half a meter long meant its owner was at most four or five meters tall, but one three meters long meant they might be twenty meters tall. It seemed the undead quartet had good reason to be wary of this forest. Still, Li was not overly concerned. His strength would not be suppressed too severely after entering, and he was not here to fight the inhabitants of this place. His target was only Aili.
With that, he continued forward without worry. After another quarter of an hour, Li suddenly frowned. A strange sensation enveloped his heart, as though something were watching him. Then, he realized something...
He had been in this valley for so long—why had he not seen a single bird or beast? Not only that, he had not even heard the chirping of insects. It was as if, at this moment, this forest had become an even more terrifying land of death than that Death Swamp!
Meanwhile, outside the valley, the undead quartet sat together.
Yama frowned. "I never expected this to be the day the Lord of the Forest awakened. If it were any of the other lords, we could still negotiate. That Lord of the Forest has always disliked us."
Hela snorted. "If those Five Elemental Lords want to fight, how could they possibly be