The Instinct to Run

The Amber Sword! The Knowledge Inheritance Crystal!

Yin Ming flew beyond the Green Forest, took human form, and brought out his gains from the past two days. He hesitated over whether to return to the Flame-Burners Association.

Tree Ancestor Sadi had advanced to the Fourth Ring. He would turn on them and seek revenge at the first opportunity. Hell Valley's proximity to the Green Forest was a danger.

Besides, Yin Ming had pocketed the Amber Sword that the Flame-Burners Association had offered the Green Forest in hopes of peace. Then he had pressured the Green Forest into handing over an Inheritance Crystal containing three fields of knowledge as compensation for keeping the peace. It was a little hard to show his face after that.

"I should be safe for a while. I can't give up everything over one risk. I'll go back to the Flame-Burners Association first."

After half an hour of thought, Yin Ming flew toward Hell Valley.

The True Blood of a Third-Ring Twisted Treant was not particularly important. But at the Divine Era Civilization's Dawn Plane, one man could only do so much. He could, at most, visit the Undying Church's core and claim its legacy. Other sites needed people to excavate them too. Archaeology was more efficient with a team.

The two remaining incomplete sections of the Eight-Nine Mystical Art also required plenty of experimental subjects. And without a steady supply of Soul Crystals from demon corpses, his progress with the Meditation Method would slow considerably.

Hell Valley, the Flame-Burners Association.

With extraordinary powers at work, rebuilding went quickly.

The low buildings in the Red Maple Forest had never demanded much in the way of appearance. In just half a day, they had been rebuilt and put back into use.

"They cut down every tree