Borrowing Half a Tree of Fruit, Hearing Sounds from the Seabed

Xue Baizhi and Shikshananda—Su Che watched Xue Baizhi's retreating figure gradually vanish across the stone bridge. Those two had put on quite a show.

Unfortunately, the only one who had ultimately been schemed against was Elder Qin.

He himself had nearly fallen into their trap as well.

When Su Che had just raised his head to look at the Soul Wart Fruits, a possibility suddenly occurred to him.

The injuries on Xue Baizhi and Shikshananda might not have come from a conflict between the two of them.

The two should have entered this Ancient Netherworld at the same time. Judging from how seamlessly they had worked together earlier, there was no reason for them to start fighting the moment they entered and engage in a meaningless life-and-death struggle.

Thus, the most likely possibility was that they had suffered a counterattack while "cooperating" to "acquire" something.

So far, the only things here that seemed capable of harming Shikshananda and Xue Baizhi were the corpse brothers standing obediently in place, this great tree called the Soul Tumor Tree, and those Mirror Sea Flowers blooming like clusters of crystal.

The most reasonable explanation was that the two had encountered this tree's retaliation while collecting Soul Wart Fruits. Xue Baizhi had taken a blow to the lower abdomen, and Shikshananda had been injured at the same time.

After seizing the benefits here, the two had split up. Xue Baizhi had gone back to find Elder Qin and him, while Shikshananda had remained here to wait.

Su Che did not know what fate awaited Elder Qin on the bridge ahead, but it was surely nothing good.

Once Xue Baizhi had gone far along the bridge, Su Che sprang up onto the Soul Tumor Tree.

The great tree did not react at all. Only the tumor-like