Behind Gourd Valley lay a vast, boundless forest. No one knew how many years had passed since anyone had set foot there. Even what lay on the far side was nothing more than conjecture.
That day, someone finally entered this place. A swarm of insects swept past, with Huo Hai following close behind. In the entire Southern Cloud Kingdom, Huo Hai was probably the only person bold enough to venture alone into somewhere so dangerous.
As Huo Hai ventured deeper, the forest's strangeness and dangers gradually revealed themselves.
"Damn it, another spirit beast at the Spirit Practitioner Realm. Why are there so many?" Before he had gone very far, Huo Hai had already encountered numerous spirit beasts at the Spirit Practitioner Realm. He left the distant ones alone, but even so, he had already killed three along the way. Now he had spotted a fourth.
It was hard to imagine that so many high-level spirit beasts had never left through Gourd Valley. Otherwise, the Western Frontier would hardly have been so easy to defend. The same went for the Southern Forest Kingdom's eastern border.
The only disappointment was that Huo Hai had not found any particularly valuable resources in this vast forest. At most, he had obtained some unusual spirit medicines, all of them rare in the Southern Cloud Kingdom, or even completely unheard of there.
As he walked, Huo Hai identified the medicinal properties of these spirit medicines with Little Gold's help. It did not matter even if he was poisoned. Any toxin Little Gold could withstand could be drawn straight out of Huo Hai's body. As for medicinal effects even Little Gold could not endure, Huo Hai dared not experiment recklessly. He did not possess the legendary Shennong's vitality.
Over the past few days, Huo Hai had lost