"Qi Qi, ahead to the right!"
The moment San San spoke, Ye Chuqi swept a hand backward. Xiaojiu and Ye Qinglan both concealed themselves, while Ye Chuqi leaped onto a nearby tree. It was not just to evade the approaching magic beasts, but also to gain a broader view.
There was still a difference between sensing something and seeing it with her own eyes.
A group of magic beasts was indeed approaching from ahead to the right, as San San had said. There were at least a dozen, all mid-rank magic beasts, moving silently through the pitch-black night. They were already close, and she had no idea whether they had noticed the three of them.
Before entering the forest, Ye Chuqi had equipped both Xiaojiu and Ye Qinglan with little herbal sachets she had made herself. They could confuse the beasts' sense of smell. As long as the three of them kept quiet and did not openly appear before the beasts, scent alone would not reveal their presence.
Xiaojiu was already used to Ye Chuqi's little herbal sachets, but Ye Qinglan held his thoughtfully. Ye Chuqi smiled and told him she would give him the formula when they returned, though she could not guarantee it would work on the mutant magic beasts in the Beast Abyss.
Even if it did not work, once she had a chance to visit the Beast Abyss and see for herself what those mutant magic beasts were like, she might be able to formulate a suitable sachet. It should not be much of a problem.
Ye Chuqi stared closely at the furtive, almost sluggish mid-rank magic beasts. The absence of a beast tide at night could no longer explain this. The beast tide that came every three years was not merely the beasts declaring war