Mysterious Expert

The flower branches that had been firing attack rays at Chu Yun all along suddenly fell silent, treating him as if he were nothing.

"It worked!" Chu Yun shouted inwardly, boundless ecstasy surging through him.

Throughout the climb, he had been using King-level wisdom to rack his brains for a way to break the deadlock. In the end, he came up with this idea: use the demonic aura of the Mount Li Dragon Eye Flower Branch to conceal his own presence, making the surrounding flower branches mistake him for one of their kind and cease their attacks.

Of course, this was only his conjecture. He had to brave the danger and put it into practice before it could be proven.

Fortunately, Chu Yun had succeeded.

With the Mount Li Dragon Eye Flower Branch shielding him, he moved as though through empty ground, breaking into a run toward the mountaintop.

"Damn it, that kid got away!"

"He was just a little distance away. Damn it."

"That kid actually used the demonic aura of the Mount Li Dragon Eye Flower Branch in his hand for protection, escaping the attacks of the surrounding branches..."

The three Kings exchanged glances, each seeing the helplessness and bitterness in the others' eyes.

Without question, Chu Yun had discovered an excellent way to traverse Mount Li. But the key was possessing a Mount Li Dragon Eye Flower Branch—and none of the three Kings had one.

Though flower branches filled their surroundings, when they had first arrived at the foot of the mountain, they had tried to pluck one, only to discover that every Mount Li Dragon Eye Flower Branch was bound to Mount Li by the closest of ties.

In other words, they already had owners.

Only by killing a demon's owner and returning it to an