The outskirts of the Forest of Death were thick with undergrowth and weeds. The branches and leaves of some strange plants were as sharp as blades; even the lightest touch would pierce the skin and draw blood.
An ordinary person in such surroundings would probably have had to feel their way forward one step at a time. Running would have been all but impossible.
Yet to Jun Wangchen, this treacherous terrain might as well not have existed.
Carrying Mo Duoduo in his arms, Jun Wangchen did not slow down at all because of the tangled branches. Instead, he ran even faster through the dense undergrowth than before.
The sharp branches scraped against Jun Wangchen's body without causing any damage. A closer look, however, revealed an invisible sphere of light enveloping him and Mo Duoduo, protecting them from cuts.
That invisible sphere of light was formed from Jun Wangchen's soul power.
He stamped down hard, scattering flecks of soil, then used the rebound from his soul power to propel himself forward in a great leap, widening the distance between himself and the corpses behind him.
At the same time, Jun Wangchen used Divine Calculations to determine the best directions for dodging and escaping.
It had to be said that the Forest of Death was a well-designed training ground. Shrouded in layers of fog with no clear sense of direction, it easily led challengers astray and into areas densely packed with corpses.
Without Divine Calculations to reveal the best escape route, and without the hundred-meter detection range of his soul power as a Grandmaster Level (Fourth Grade) Alchemist, escaping a horde of pursuing corpses in the fog-shrouded outskirts of the Forest of Death would have been virtually impossible.
In a sense, this Forest of Death training ground had successfully forced him to