(Second update)
Star Dou Great Forest.
This was an immensely vast forest that stretched deep into the territories of both the Star Luo Empire and the Heaven Dou Empire. It was a habitat for Soul Beasts, home to countless of them. Legend had it that Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts lived even deeper within the forest, though no one knew whether that was true.
On this day, the Star Dou Great Forest received a group of unwelcome visitors.
The pursuit force led by Xie Yue and Yan, members of Spirit Hall's Golden Generation, all wore Spirit Hall uniforms as they arrived at the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest.
Before them stood lush, dense woods. The trees and undergrowth were so thick that they blocked their view of the forest's depths. All they could hear from time to time were the overlapping howls of Soul Beasts, proclaiming the vitality of this place.
Xie Yue stopped and crouched down, carefully studying the footprints left in the soil. He said:
"She left not long ago. We can still catch up if we pursue her now."
"After tracking her for over a month, we're finally about to find you, Hu Liena." Yan took a deep breath and tried to calm the turbulent emotions in his heart. His eyes gradually returned to calmness.
Over the past month, their pursuit squad had suffered greatly.
Hu Liena truly deserved to be called the cleverest mind among the Golden Generation. Along the way, she had set traps, created misleading routes, and deliberately laid out confusing formations, repeatedly deceiving them and sending them down countless wrong paths.
Had Spirit Hall not deployed so many people and gathered such extensive intelligence that reports reached them wherever Hu Liena went, Xie Yue and Yan might have given up the pursuit long